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Typing Accuracy Test

Speed means nothing if every third word contains an error. This 100-word test scores you on net WPM — gross speed minus a penalty for every mistake. No partial credit. It exposes the accuracy floor beneath your raw speed and is the most honest measure of how useful your typing actually is.

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How to Get the Most from This Test

Do the Math on What a Typo Actually Costs

Run the numbers once and your practice priorities reorder themselves. Say you type 100 words at 60 WPM gross — a run of about 1 minute 40 seconds. Under the standard net WPM formula, every error subtracts a full word from your total, so five mistakes (a 95% accuracy run) drags 60 gross down to 57 net. But that's the cheap scenario. In real work you don't leave errors standing — you fix them, and a correction means noticing the mistake, backspacing over it, and retyping: roughly two to three times the cost of typing the word cleanly the first time. A 95%-accurate typist doing real documents loses far more than 3 WPM; they lose entire minutes per page to the notice-erase-redo loop.

That's the case this test is built to make. The training prescription that follows from it is specific: find the fastest speed at which you can complete these 100 words at 97% or better — not your fastest speed overall — and make that your home base. Add speed in 2 WPM increments, and only after the new pace stays clean for several consecutive runs.

Precision also has its own competition here: the accuracy leaderboard ranks typists on cleanliness rather than raw pace, and climbing it rewards exactly the habits that make speed durable.

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