About Type Sprint Fast

What it is for

Type Sprint Fast is meant to help you see how fast and how accurately you type, and to practice. It will not ask you to register, and it will not need a database: the timer, the text and the calculations all belong in the page you have open.

What exists today

The site, its pages and its privacy policy exist. The typing test is not available yet. Nothing on Type Sprint Fast measures your typing at the moment, and the site does not pretend otherwise. When the first test is ready it will get its own page and be added to the home page.

What is planned

• Typing speed test. Tests of 15, 30, 60 and 120 seconds, or a duration you choose, showing words per minute, characters per minute, accuracy, correct and incorrect characters and the time left as you type.
• Practice modes. Random words, common English words, full sentences, paragraphs, punctuation and numbers.
• Beginner and advanced levels. Easier and harder text, with suggestions on what to practice based on your speed and accuracy.
• Daily challenge. One shared text a day to measure yourself against your own earlier results, with no accounts and no rankings.
• Personal history. Your results and settings kept only in your own browser, with a clear way to delete them.

The order is not fixed, and you can say what you need first through the contact page.

How results will be worked out

A word in a typing test is five characters, spaces and punctuation included. Words per minute will be the characters typed correctly, divided by five, divided by the time in minutes, and accuracy will be the share of what you typed that was right. The clock will start with your first keystroke, so getting ready is never counted. How a corrected mistake is treated will be written on the page of each test, with the formula, so that the number can be checked by hand.

A typing test is a practice tool, not a certificate. Results vary with the text, your keyboard and your day, and the site will not claim that a result is an official measure of anything.

No rankings, no fake numbers

The site will not show rankings, user counts or statistics it does not have. A ranking needs a database of other people's results, and Type Sprint Fast is built without one. You will compare yourself with your own earlier results, kept only in your browser.

How it is funded

Type Sprint Fast is free to use and may be supported by advertising. Advertisements will be labelled, will never interrupt a test, and will never be placed next to the typing area, the timer or a restart button. The privacy policy describes what advertising partners may collect when ads are shown.