I do know where the keys are by heart, but when I type, I just can't not look at the keyboard... This is so annoying.

Stronger automatic filter on quote submission to correct for blatant misspellings or poor punctuation, and PLEASE less religious stuff...

love this site... really look forward in getting some practice typing because right now I am nowhere near where I should be to get an office job!

I like KeyHero, but I would like to know a little more about how the timing is calculated.
I would like to read the quote before I start typing. It seems that the time starts as soon as the quote is displayed. I think it should start from the first keystroke.

I have suggested this one via email, but maybe others may comment...
I would like to see the speed graph on the left-hand side a 'dynamic graph', where you could click on (or hover over) the different speeds and it would display within the quote where the speed was fast and slow depending on where about along the graph you selected.

Hey rsairu,
The quotations are created by/for the users.
I cannot see why you're complaining about religious stuff, if you have only submitted one [1] quote.
Submit some more quotes of the "stuff" you want to see and type.
If you don't like it; do something about it (or leave).

I would like to see the 'Top Players' not qualify to be a Top Player, unless they have completed about 10 games.
There are a heap of players who have only played one [1] game and have made it onto the leader board, but there are people who are playing everyday that cannot ever get up the ladder.
Yes; they are fast and accurate, but there are a bunch of them that haven't returned since they logged their one and only result. Are they cheating by using Dragon Naturally Speaking? I don't know - can that be done?

I'm doing good as doing day by day practice.

i think your some times ur spped(wpm) is not correct. may be possible
so please check yr timing

Let us choose what test we get from the quote's page

how did u change ur picture

It would be nice to see a graph of my wpm over all of my games, rather than just a recent window, So I can see how I've progressed over longer periods of time.

I am a newbie here , first time visitor .. this is quite fun !!

welcome aboard! hope you will do great.. :)

As far as I think, in comparison to the typing speed here the actual speed will be ~5-10wpm higher, since one would already know what has to be typed rather than looking on screen for the next word. But no doubt it one of interesting ways to start learning with. Cheers

I am such a slow typer hints? plz help me..

I'm not the greatest typist, but my advice to improve typing speed would be to read as much and as often as possible. If you are unfamiliar with certain words (namely, how they are spelled) while you are typing, then it will drastically hinder your typing speed. Plus, reading has tons of other benefits as well. It keeps you sharp, improves your vocabulary and grammar, and generally makes you more smart.

I think a great suggestion for this Typing Test site would be to allow you to rate a quote after you type it. Also if you could comment on it on the same screen as the Typing Test... I guess maybe that would be harder to program, but it would be more convenient.

The question remains of whether accuracy or speed is the best quality of typing. There is no argument over the fact that both are immensely valuable to typing. But, when it comes to practical applications, which should one focus most on improving? What to employers look for? Which allows for the freest flow of thought? What are the costs of each to the other, and is it a fair enough exchange to warrant equal effort in part of them both?

HELP ME FRIENDS IN IMPROVING my ENGLSIH"" I want to speak English as Native speakers of English speak (^_^)

I would like to be able to look up specific users with a search feature.

As a second language, I think it is really hard to improve the speed up to 100. However, it is really fun. :D

where i have to write i am new

hi there, kind of addicted to this typing test

Damn!!! some of these guys go 139 words per minute... thats insane. But I know I will catch up eventually, with some practice. :)

:why: can't I not get above 50 wpm?!

For quotes, I don't believe it's necessary for spelling to be perfect or even good. The random spelling, punctuation and/or grammar error offers challenge. It helps weed out the skilled from the rest.

What office job are you going for and what's their AWPM requirement? What's your AWPM goal? When I was practicing I reached about 36 AWPM. However, since I've stopped using Mavis Beacon I've just been typing for everything I like (texting SMS through my email account, making notes about something I need to remember like video game notes, movie notes, song lyrics, etc.) and now I have a 42.

Just focus on 100% accuracy and NEVER look at your hands or keyboard, always go just slower than your fastest, and find a pace where your strokes are in a steady streaming pattern with no gaps or breaks in the sound of your keystrokes. Don't get impatient. The key is to be comfortable. If it FEELS too slow then you're doing it right.

You'll always feel like you're typing at the same speed. But, believe me when I say from experience, if you're not looking at a clock or counting words for practice, just typing, you'll get faster a lot more quickly typing something you enjoy.

The key to timing keystrokes is not being familiar with what your typing. Being comfortable typing whatever is on the screen. Memorizing it would be a cheat because you're familiarizing yourself with it instead of reacting second nature. Otherwise people would practice what's in the quote elsewhere (like "Notepad") before starting the time thus the scores you would see would be inaccurate. This way everybody has the same amount of time and under the same conditions. No cheats.

Timing is calculated as words per minute which the average word includes 5 characters and a space. Or maybe it's just 5 characters including the space. I can't remember. That's your WPM.

Your Average Words Per Minute or AWPM = WPM * Accuracy% / 100. For this program anyway. Normally it's total number of words divided by number of minutes (usual tests are done in a set amount of time like 5 minutes for example) which gives you your WPM minus total number of errors which gives you your AWPM. This is the number that jobs look at for your typing speed.

I agree. Also, there IS the esc button. LOL

That would give way to cheating. The object is to have random and unfamiliar material to type so everyone is being challenged the same way. If you got to chose what you typed then you would be choosing something you're familiar with and your scores wouldn't reflect your typing skill in general.

It'd be like playing Tetris with the shapes always falling in the same order and always oriented the same way. There'd be no point after a while because there'd be no randomness to challenge you so you can improve your skills or to compare your skills against anyone else.

You can type without looking at the keyboard. That's the point to tests like these. To give you practice typing without looking at your hands so you can get faster. It takes time to develop speed. It feels awkward at first but it gets easier fast.

Just focus on accuracy first. Don't worry about typing fast at all. Just type at a speed your comfortable with. Focus on making no mistakes. Force yourself to see the keyboard in your head while you read what you're typing. Go slow. Give your mind the time it needs to connect the keyboard in your mind that your fingers move to with the individual characters on the screen.

The absolute easiest and most effective way to improve your speed is to find the fastest you can type a 100% accuracy at the steadiest pace you can find. The sound your keys make at this pace should be one steady rhythm of tapping with no gaps, pauses or breaks. Then slow down just enough to feel like your going too slow.

Trust me, you won't FEEL yourself get faster. But, before you know it you'll be burning the keys with your rapidly developing speed.

My tip to improve your typing speed is get a cover for your keyboard so you can't see the keys. Then looking at the keys for what letter you are pressing wont help, you will have to commit to memory where they are, and wont be tempted to look down.

Nice learning side for all level. I am office assistant and when I see this side then I happy to use typing practice and his result is positive.
Key Hero features
Good
Regard,
Rahim Budhwani

Please make it so I can see a single wpm graph spanning my entire history.

Holy fudge I suck at typing.

Overall, I really enjoy this site. The main complaint I have is that the punctuation and grammar with several of the quotes is improper. I've been correcting where I can, as a member; however, I think that the person in charge of proofing/editing quotes needs to be a bit more stringent. I've also sent a message about this. I'm willing to help in whatever way I can. Thanks!

The best site of typing, good job guys!!!

I'm Honorificabilitudinitatibus!
I dont have to Antidisestablishmentarianism.
In just a Floccinauccinihilipilification... I will Hepaticocholangiocholecystenterostomies you.

Those are words and it wont let me submit.

I like to look away from the keyboard when I am typing because I find I could type faster when I look away.

@thepianistdy HOLY CRAP, 199.3 100% accuracy? Is that legit???

@rziegler80 Yes. It is legit. 100% legit. You can look at my record for further proof. :) (I'm also silentbunny. I got that account up to #3 on this site) lol

Quotes should be allowed to be lyrics...but not grammatically incorrect ones.

You can press the Esc button if you don't like a quote. Some people like the religious "stuff."

Dare to be ethical, else leave the field...

Use a key board where no letter is written... Simply buy one and remove yourself... gonna work buddy...

Some of these people blow my mind with their WPM...

Why can't I take the test!!?? It keeps loading......
Does it have anything to do with the flash player? Or is it the website? Or is it my computer?!!

Why can't I take the test, it loading but nothing else.

Would you be so kind to give the possibility to the people to register themselves as native speaker or as foreigner. Being a foreigner with modest English knowledge it seems (to me) impossible to compete those who - presumably - know perfectly "ab ovo" the correct english spelling. My typing speed on my mother language cca 300 letters/minute, meanwhile in English presently only 100-130 lpm. And of course I have a Hungarian keyboard, which differs from the English one.
Thanks.
Oregmaci_Pet
P.S. Your program is excelent!

nice tool

aye this is stupid man

How do I write a quote????

A more structured forum. It is awesome that you have one. But for example, it would be more interactive if the latest threads showed up firs in the list of threads and the feature were you have pretyped text in that "message box" in the profile is just annoying. The forum is confusing.

you look good

Whenever I pressed Ctrl+Backspace, The last word I typed are deleted, but in the Box there's always 1 character left which is so wrong.
For example, assume I was typing "The quick vrown" but I realized error( the word "vrown" is in red) then I pressed Ctrl+Backspace to delete the whole word. Despite the word I typed return to "The quick ", the word in the box keeps giving error at the character v( it is displayed "The quick v" with v in red). That makes me need to press another backspace to correct it.

If I'm not mistaken, last year's Ctrl+Backspace feature isn't like this. Knowing that at real typing, just one press of Ctrl+Backspace is enough to delete the whole word we are typing, this keyhero feature(or bug?) isn't convenient for practice. Please change(of fix) this.
Thank you.

Update: it seems whenever Ctrl+Backspace is pressed, the deletion only happen for 1 word only. So if I typed "The quick brown fox" then pressed Ctrl+Backspace 4 times, the result will only affect 1 times and keeps the last word error. The result will be "The quick brown" as in typed word, but giving error "The quick brown f" with f in red.
From that experience, I guess the Ctrl+Backspace feature is bugged.

Edit: this problem seems to happen in Chrome(my version is Chrome 21), but works perfectly with IE

typing matter should be more in size. for better typing practice

too many cheaters!!

How long does it take to learn to type fast?

How do you change your picture?

Sign up on gravatar.com and link to the gravatar

Take Deep Breaths

On the typing test, it hasent let me start. please explain...

You can now edit the quote title and author informations after posting it. The feature is available on the quote page.

Team games helped me improve speed of my typing. Needing to look at the screen while messages are constantly being sent. I need to keep up with it, and it helped train me type. I learned to not look at my keyboard as I typed, because I wanted to respond to what my friends and teammates were saying before another topic proceeded. Mapestory :)

Im amazing at typing

Good jim kid and blah

Jim bit my face did u know

You all are so friendly..

1. I would like to see a better "error correction" algorithm in training sessions.

Something that counts "mistakes" as edit distance with transpositions, and do not require letters to be in perfect synchronization.

For example, if there is a word 'too' which a type a 'to' and won't notice it for the next five strokes, it should be a single mistake, and not 5 mistakes (because of lost synchronization).

Regaining synchronization "manually" makes it hard to keep rhythm.

2. After completion of exercise, I would like to be able to review and retype words where I made mistakes. For example type each of these words three times.
Bonus points for you, if you exclude proper names and rarely used words (outside of 10.000 most common word list) from this review.