Measure your words per minute and accuracy on real prose.
One “word” is five characters including the following space — the standard convention, which is what makes scores comparable between passages. Pasting is blocked, and nothing you type is recorded or sent anywhere.
A typing speed test measures words per minute, where one "word" is five characters including the following space — the convention that makes scores comparable across passages and languages. This test reports both gross WPM and net WPM, which counts only the characters you typed correctly.
Around 40 WPM is average for regular computer users, 60–80 is well above average, and beyond 80 you are faster than you can usually compose thoughts. For most study and office work, accuracy above 95% matters more than raw speed.
Gross counts everything you typed; net counts only the correct characters. Someone at 90 gross with 80% accuracy is slower in real work than someone at 70 gross with 99%, because every error has to be found and fixed later. Net is the number worth improving.
Because real words vary in length, so counting them directly would make a passage of short words score higher than one of long words. Fixing a "word" at five characters including the trailing space is the standard that makes two tests comparable at all.
Accuracy first, speed second. Learn proper finger placement so you are not looking at the keyboard, then practise at a pace where you make almost no errors — speed follows from not having to correct yourself. Drilling faster than your accuracy allows mostly trains the errors.
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