What is your current typing speed?
Know it already? Click green for personalized tips.
Let's check your typing speed
Click the blue OK below to leave this info screen and select Typing Test from the menu. Choose a duration of 1 minute or more depending on your preference.
When the test finishes, your WPM will be shown automatically.
Return to this Lesson and select your WPM to get tailored tips.
Select your current WPM level:
You are at the perfect stage to build strong typing habits.
Most learners are surprised by how quickly typing starts to feel easier.
With just a little daily practice, your speed can improve
noticeably within a few weeks.
- Keep your fingers on the home row — A S D F J K L ;
- Do not worry about speed, accuracy builds speed naturally
- Reduce looking at the keyboard little by little each day
- Aim for 90–95% accuracy: Smooth typing becomes fast typing
Many learners reach 25–35 WPM after a few weeks of practice.
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Every day counts: 10 minutes today beats one long session on Sunday — come back tomorrow.
Building Speed — 20 to 30 WPM
Rhythm and accuracy now compound into lasting speed.
- Type at an even pace — avoid bursts followed by pauses
- Keep error rate under ~5% before pushing speed
- When the program suggests a Review, always take it — it drills your exact weak keys
- In Custom Review, use Word Drill to practice problem keys
- Focus to build rhythm across sentence and text drills
Steady 35–40 WPM with good accuracy beats unstable higher bursts.
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Rhythm grows daily: a short session every day keeps your fingers fluent — skip a few days and it fades.
Real-World Typing — 30 to 40 WPM
Close the gap between practice and how you type every day.
- Focus to Paragraph Drills — longer texts with no forced correction, closer to real typing
- In Custom Review → Choose Keys, target the 2–3 combinations you hesitate on most
- Launch TypingMeter to get exercises from your weak spots
- Grab more real-world texts from the Typing Test Library
- Check TypingMeter → Analysis to see your daily difficult keys
Accuracy (95%+) is more valuable than higher peak speed at this stage.
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Practice every day: keep TypingMeter running while you work — each day of real typing shapes your next exercise.
High Performance — 40 to 50 WPM
Push beyond average and make every keystroke count.
- If you know the fingers positions, switch to the Speed Building Course via “Change Course” — designed for this level
- Focus to Text Drills — no hints, no forced correction
- In Typing Test, add your own work documents as test texts
- Use Custom Review → Game to drill hesitation points — Clouds and Wordtris work well
- Pull tougher passages from the Text Library — real texts
Sustaining speed over 10–15 minutes matters more than peak bursts.
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Lock in your gains: daily practice turns today's best speed into your normal speed.
Expert — 50+ WPM
Protect your edge — elite speed needs active maintenance.
- Launch TypingMeter — it tracks your real typing and builds exercises from your difficult keys and key-pairs (bigrams)
- Run Typing Tests of 5 minutes or longer — the standard minimum for a meaningful result
- Get varied test texts from the Text Library
- Use the "Change Course" button to switch to advanced courses that match your skill level.
Statistics → Progress Report prints your full exercise and test history.
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Stay sharp daily: leave TypingMeter on every day — it spots new weak key-pairs before they slow you down.
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Most learners see real improvements in comfort, accuracy, and speed within the first week of practice.
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