| # | Player | Accuracy | WPM |
|---|
Typing speed is measured in WPM — words per minute, where one "word" equals five characters including spaces. Here's how different levels compare:
| Speed | Level | Who's there |
|---|---|---|
| < 30 WPM | 🐌 Beginner | Hunting-and-pecking, new to touch typing |
| 30–50 WPM | 📝 Average | Most casual computer users |
| 50–70 WPM | ✅ Good | Comfortable touch typists |
| 70–90 WPM | 🔥 Fast | Proficient professionals |
| 90–120 WPM | 🚀 Very Fast | Top 5% — writers, developers, transcriptionists |
| 120+ WPM | ⚡ Elite | Competitive typists, stenographers |
Learn proper finger placement. Touch typing — placing all ten fingers on the home row and never looking at the keyboard — is the single biggest speed unlock. Most people plateau at 40–50 WPM using two or four fingers. Touch typists routinely reach 80–100 WPM.
Prioritize accuracy over speed. Backspacing constantly slows you down more than cautious, accurate typing. Aim for 95%+ accuracy first; speed follows naturally. This test only saves scores with 80% or higher accuracy for that reason.
Practice consistently. Ten focused minutes per day beats one long session per week. After 30 days of daily practice, most people see a 20–40% improvement in WPM.
Use all your fingers. If you're skipping your pinkies or ring fingers, you're leaving speed on the table. Each finger should have dedicated keys — the awkward stretches feel unnatural at first but become automatic.
Net WPM accounts for errors — every wrong word subtracts from your raw score. A typist who bangs out 100 WPM but makes 20% errors nets only around 80 WPM. Worse, frequent backspacing breaks your rhythm and wastes time. Accurate typists are almost always faster in real-world writing tasks.