Typing Test

Typing Test to check typing speed online - the official Learn2Type.com test. Measure your WPM speed and allow you to share your daily typing scores with friends on Facebook or Google+.

Type the exercise paragraph exactly as shown below and click the TEST ME! button when finished. Your speed and accuracy will be measured automatically by the typing test, and a performance evaluation will be displayed along with your typing speed.

You may also get an optional typing certificate with online verification and a professionally printed certification document suitable for framing after completing the typing tests. Remember, keyboarding accuracy is just as important as speed, so don't rush through the typing exercise. You may also create a free typing lesson account that will allow you to store your typing test results and provide performance graphs, so you can monitor your own typing skill improvement over time.

When taking these typing tests, you do NOT need to press the ENTER key between lines, the text that you type will automatically wrap to the next line when it reaches the end. Click in the box below to start the timer and begin the test.

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A Mexican newspaper reports that bored Royal Air Force pilots stationed on the Falkland Islands have devised what they consider a marvelous new game. Noting that the local penguins are fascinated by airplanes, the pilots search out a beach where the birds are gathered and fly slowly along it at the water's edge. Perhaps ten thousand penguins turn their heads in unison watching the planes go by, and when the pilots turn around and fly back, the birds turn their heads in the opposite direction, like spectators at a slow-motion tennis match. Then, the paper reports, "The pilots fly out to sea and directly to the penguin colony and overfly it. Heads go up, up, up, and ten thousand penguins fall over gently onto their backs.

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