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6-Minute Typing Test

Six minutes is where casual typists fall apart and trained typists hold steady. This duration is long enough that poor posture, wrist tension, and unfocused eyes all show up in the WPM graph. Use this test to identify specific points in a session where your speed degrades.

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Live Results on This Test

31
median WPM
41
WPM — top 10%
96.3%
average accuracy
25
tests — last 90 days

Computed from real completed tests on this exact format over the last 90 days. Score above 31 WPM and you're faster than half the people who take this test.

How to Get the Most from This Test

Training Past the Certification Line

Almost everyone who practices long-form typing stops at five minutes, because that is where the certificates stop. Six minutes exists for the opposite reason: it is deliberately 20% beyond the standard, and that overshoot is a training principle, not an arbitrary number. Runners preparing for a 10K train at 12K; typists preparing for a 5-minute assessment who regularly complete six find that the certification length suddenly feels short. The final minute of this test — the one nothing official ever asks of you — is where your sustainable pace genuinely gets built.

This duration also functions as a diagnostic that shorter tests cannot replicate. Technique faults surface here on a predictable schedule: visual lag and lookdowns at the keyboard in minutes one to two, wrist and forearm tension around minutes three to four, and concentration decay in minutes five to six. Note which minute your speed graph dips in and you know which fault is yours. A dip early in the run usually means your reading process is the bottleneck — something structured touch typing practice addresses directly. A dip only at the end is plain stamina, and more six-minute volume is itself the cure.

Realistic expectation: holding within 8–10% of your single-minute pace across all six minutes is strong. Manage that comfortably, and the step up to the 7-minute test is smaller than it looks.

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