About typetype

1. Go to Test and start typing; the clock starts on your first key.
2. Type each word and press space. A wrong word stays underlined; backspace goes back into it.
3. When the test ends, your results open in place. Tab then Enter starts new words, ⌃Enter runs the same words again.

time runs for a number of seconds (15, 30, 60, 120 or custom); words ends after a number of words (10, 25, 50, 100 or custom). Speed is in words per minute (one word = 5 keystrokes); click the live speed to switch to characters per second.

drill (a toggle next to punctuation and numbers) works with time or words. Mistype any letter of a word, or press space before it's finished, and it's dropped at once: a drill card opens under the caret. The button next to the toggle picks the drill:

• n-gram: every word contains one of your n-grams (such as th or ing). You type the word's nearest n-gram 10 times in a row (thththth…), then retype the whole word. You can type repetitions with spaces instead (th th th …) and drill only after typos inside an n-gram.
• word (bigrams, trigrams): you type the mistyped word itself 3 times, with spaces, then go on with the next word.

For both you set the number of repetitions and what a typo in a repetition does: nothing (the letter isn't taken; the n-gram default), restart the whole drill (the word default), or cost one more repetition. A wrong first letter of a repetition does nothing and isn't counted as an error. Drill repetitions and the time spent on them don't count in your wpm and cps, or toward a word count, and a time test's clock pauses while you drill. Tests with drills are never ranked.

Tests start in the interface language; pick another in the bar: 11 natural languages plus keywords of several programming languages. Settings lock while a test is running.

The word pool button opens the test settings. Draw words from the top N most common words of the language, from your own pasted list, or from practice mistakes.

Letter filters keep only words containing letter combinations such as th or ing: Any matches one of them, All requires every one.

Punctuation and numbers are toggled in the bar; how often they appear is set in the settings. A preview at the bottom of the settings shows what the text will look like.

The ghost is a second caret you race. It replays a real run keystroke by keystroke, pauses and corrections included, and the timer row shows how many words ahead (+) or behind (−) of it you are.

• New words: Last or Best replays your last or best test with the same settings, mapped onto the new text.
• Same words (Repeat): Previous or Best replays your previous or best attempt on those exact words.
• Either can be a Fixed speed (a steady wpm) or Off.

Every finished test remembers, per language, the words you mistype or slow down on, your most mistyped letters and what you type instead. Old data fades out. The Practice tab in the settings (and the History page) shows your weak spots; a practice pool mixes those words with common words containing your weakest letters.

Results show speed, accuracy and a chart of your speed over time or over words. Dots mark typos; hover one to see which letter you typed for which. Hover the chart to highlight the words you were typing at that moment, hover a word to see its span on the chart, and click a word for its speed and, on request, its definition.

In the text, a solid underline is a word left wrong, a dotted one a typo you fixed, and a tinted word was unusually slow.

History keeps your tests in this browser, with personal bests per setup. Tests with standard settings are ranked when you're signed in: the server replays your keystrokes to check them, and the best go on the leaderboard. Custom settings, practice drills and repeats are never ranked.

The palette button in the header picks the interface language, a colour theme (or your own colours), the typing and interface fonts, the size of the typing text and the caret: a line, a block or an underline, gliding or jumping.

• English word frequencies: the Google Trillion Word Corpus.
• Other languages: FrequencyWords (built from OpenSubtitles).
• Definitions: Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Definitions are in English for every language.
• Fonts from Google Fonts: JetBrains Mono, IBM Plex, Fira Code, Source Code Pro, Ubuntu Mono, Inter and Geist.