Turn your own text into a typing session
Prepare a passage once, choose a measured test or finish-at-your-own-pace practice, and use the same stable typing workbench as every core route.
Prepare the target text
Line breaks are converted to spaces when the text is loaded into the workbench.
Editing does not interrupt the current workbench until you load the new text.
What is stored?
Only speed, accuracy, duration, pace samples and error counts. The custom passage is not included.
When should I test?
Use the 60-second rule when you want a comparable baseline with paste treated as invalid.
When should I practice?
Use open practice to learn unfamiliar material and finish the passage without a timer.
Make your own custom typing test
A custom typing test lets you paste or write the exact text you want to type, then measure yourself on it or practise until you finish. It is useful when the standard passages are not the material you actually need: a speech, a code snippet, product names, a language-class vocabulary list or the boilerplate you type at work.
Your text stays in this browser. The passage and what you type are never uploaded, and only the final score summary can synchronise.
How to create a custom typing test
Paste or type your passage into the editor, load it into the workbench and choose a rule. Line breaks are turned into spaces when the text loads, so a passage is typed as one continuous line.
- Choose open practice to finish the passage at your own pace.
- Choose the 60-second test for a measured, comparable result.
- Enter a passage long enough to be meaningful for the rule you pick.
Open practice or timed test?
Open practice has no timer and ends when the passage ends, so it suits learning unfamiliar material. The 60-second rule repeats the passage until time runs out, starts its timer on your first key and treats pasting as invalid, so it suits measurement.
Ideas for what to practise
Type the words you get wrong most often, the sign-off and phrases in your emails, a paragraph you must reproduce accurately, technical terms, addresses and names, or a passage from a book you enjoy. Focused material trains the exact movements you need.
Keeping custom typing test results comparable
Scores from different texts are not directly comparable, because passages with capitals, numbers and rare words are slower to type. To track progress, reuse the same passage and conditions, or compare against a standard typing test on the same day.