Monkey typing test
Measure your typing speed in WPM, then find out exactly which keys are slowing you down. Free, instant, and no signup.
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- 1 minute typing test The standard benchmark
- 3 minute typing test School and screening length
- 5 minute typing test What employers usually use
- 10 minute typing test Endurance and exam prep
- Typing test with punctuation Capitals, commas, apostrophes
- Number typing test Number row, scored in WPM and KPH
- Paragraph typing practice Real prose, real reading flow
- Free typing certificate Instant download, no signup
Most typing tests tell you how fast. This one tells you what to fix.
A score on its own does not make anyone faster. The test records the timing of every keystroke, attributes it to the finger that should have pressed it, and turns the slow ones into a drill. The same finger map drives the lessons, so what you are taught and what you are measured on never drift apart.
- Left pinky
- Left ring
- Left middle
- Left index
- Right index
- Right middle
- Right ring
- Right pinky
- Per-key analytics
- Every keystroke is timed. After a test you see which specific keys and fingers cost you speed, saved across every test you take.
- Drills from your own data
- One click turns your weakest keys into a practice drill, so repetition goes where it actually pays.
- A real course
- Twenty accuracy-gated lessons from the home row through numbers and symbols, with the keyboard showing you the finger for the next key.
- Nothing gated
- No account, no email, no limits, and no ads next to the caret. History and progress live in your browser.
About the monkey typing test
This is a free monkey typing test built for people who want more than a number. It runs entirely in the browser, so it is a monkey typing test online with nothing to download and nothing to install. Press a key and the clock starts; sixty seconds later you get your typing speed in words per minute alongside the things that actually explain it. Nothing is behind a signup, there is no email field anywhere on the site, and no advertising is ever placed next to the caret while you are typing.
What the test measures
Four numbers come out of every run. WPM is your net speed: correctly typed characters divided by five, per minute, which is the convention every serious typing test uses. Raw WPM counts everything you typed including the mistakes, so the gap between the two shows what errors cost you. Accuracy is judged at the moment you press each key and is never restored by backspacing, which is why it is a harsher and more honest figure than most people expect. Consistency comes from how evenly your speed held second to second, and it is often the number worth improving first. Every formula is published in full on the typing metrics page.
Choosing how to run it
The control bar above the text switches the whole test. Time mode runs a countdown at 15, 30, 60 or 120 seconds. Words mode, sometimes called word monkey typing, gives you a fixed target of 10, 25, 50 or 100 words and ends when you finish the last one, which some people find easier to pace than a clock. Quote mode serves passages from public domain literature so you are typing real sentences instead of a shuffled word list. Two modifiers sit alongside them: punctuation adds capitals, commas and quotation marks, and numbers mixes digits into the stream. Both start switched off so the first thing you measure is plain throughput.
What happens after you finish
This is where a monkey typing speed test usually stops and this one keeps going. Every keystroke was timed, so the results screen can show you which individual keys took longest, which of your fingers is lagging, and where in the run your pace fell away. One button turns your slowest keys into a drill made of words that use them heavily. That is a far better use of ten minutes than taking the same test five more times, because repetition only helps when it lands on the thing that is actually failing. Everything accumulates on your stats page as a per-key heatmap that gets more useful the more you type.
Practice, not just measurement
If your speed has plateaued, testing more will not move it. The free touch typing course is twenty lessons that start at the home row and work outward through the alphabet, then capitals, punctuation, numbers and symbols. Each lesson shows an on-screen keyboard that highlights the next key and names the finger that should press it, and each one is gated on accuracy rather than speed, because clean technique is what speed is built on. Research on 136 million keystrokes found that the strongest predictors of fast typing are consistent finger mapping and overlapping keystrokes, not force or effort, and the lessons are designed around exactly that.
Typing in your own language
The test runs in 64 languages, each with its own list of the most frequent words in that language. Those lists were written for this site rather than machine translated, and the punctuation follows local convention: Spanish opens a question with an inverted mark, Hindi closes a sentence with a danda, Greek writes its question mark as a semicolon. Right to left scripts run right to left with the caret on the correct side. Browse them all on the languages page.
A note on the name
MonkeyTyping lives at monkeytyping.cc and is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Monkeytype or any other typing website, and if you arrived here looking for a different site you are one click from leaving. If you are genuinely comparing tools, our writeup of the best Monkeytype alternatives is honest about where other sites do things better than we do.
Questions people ask
What is the monkey typing test?
It is a free online typing speed test that measures how fast and how accurately you type. You get words per minute, raw WPM, accuracy, consistency and a breakdown of which individual keys slowed you down. Nothing is gated: there is no account, no email and no limit on how many runs you take.
How do I check my monkey typing speed?
Just start typing on the test above. The clock begins on your first keystroke, not before, so nothing is lost while you get ready. After 60 seconds you get your monkey typing speed in WPM alongside accuracy and a graph of how your pace moved through the run. Change the length to 15, 30 or 120 seconds in the control bar, or take a longer 5 minute typing test.
What is a good WPM on a monkey typing speed test?
The adult average is around 40 WPM at roughly 92% accuracy. Above 60 WPM is comfortably good, above 80 is fast, and above 100 puts you in the top few percent. Our guide to what counts as a good WPM breaks it down score by score, and average typing speed shows where the numbers come from.
Is there a monkey typing game?
Not an arcade game, no. What this site has instead is targeted practice: after any run it builds a drill from the specific keys that cost you time, so the repetition goes where it actually helps. If you want structured practice rather than a score, the free 20 lesson typing course teaches finger placement from the home row outward.
What is word monkey typing?
It is the word count mode. Instead of racing a clock you type a fixed number of words, 10, 25, 50 or 100, and the test ends when you finish the last one. Switch to it with the "words" button in the control bar. Some people find a fixed target easier to pace than a countdown.
Can I do monkey typing practice in my own language?
Yes, in 64 languages. Each one has its own list of the most frequent words in that language, written for this site rather than machine translated, and punctuation follows that language's own conventions. Pick yours from the language menu in the control bar or browse all languages.
Does monkey typing on keyboard work on a phone?
Yes. The test works with mobile keyboards and your phone results go into the same local history. Autocorrect and predictive text are ignored, so type each letter yourself. On a physical keyboard you can also try alternative layouts: the Dvorak and Colemak tests emulate those layouts in the browser without changing anything on your device.
Is this the same as monkeytype.com?
No. MonkeyTyping (monkeytyping.cc) is an independent site and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Monkeytype or any other typing website. If you are comparing tools, our review of Monkeytype alternatives covers the differences honestly, including where other sites are better.
Where are my results saved?
In your own browser. Your history, personal bests, per-key statistics and lesson progress are written to localStorage on your device and never uploaded. You can review, export or permanently delete all of it on your typing stats page.