Free Typing Game

Test Your Skills

Type the words in the box below to find out your words per minute and accuracy score. After you type the first word and hit space the timer will begin. The blue refresh button will restart the game. Good luck!

Typing Skill

Typing is an essential skill to have in today’s world. It is important for people of all ages. The ability to type faster and more accurately can give students an advantage in their studies and adults a leg up in the workplace. Using our free typing game will help you to improve the words per minute that you can type as well as the accuracy with which you type them.

How Do You Measure Up?

For most people typing 216 words per minute is not possible. However, being able to keep up with the average and even better to be able to type faster than the average, will give you a leg up on competition.

Touch Typing Vs. Hunt And Peck

Touch typing is a form of typing without looking. This is far superior to the hunt and peck style of typing in which the typist must look for and find the key they wish to enter. Touch typing can be accomplished with both one hand or two hands. The efficiency gained especially when creating larger word filled documents makes touch typing an indispensable skill to have.

Basics to Get You Started

Jobs and Typing

There aren’t a lot of jobs anymore that the skill of typing wouldn’t be an asset to. There are a lot of jobs that a lack of typing skill essentially disqualifies you from, namely, any job in the technology industry. All jobs in the tech world revolve around the computer and the computer is accessed through the mouse and keyboard so if you aren’t proficient with those, you will need to start with typing before looking to become involved in the tech world. Typing is essential in any type of application building. Apps are all created with code using specified languages. Although there is a myth of an entrepreneur who created a very successful sex app as a hunt and peck typist, it is hard to fathom that this feat was possible in any reasonable amount of time. Any other website or app used by millions of people worldwide such as Facebook was built by programmers with far above average typing skills. For those working in the tech industry typing is almost as important as breathing.

Practice! Practice! Practice!

By now you should understand the importance of typing if it wasn’t already apparent in your everyday life. So how can you improve your typing skills? Use our typing game. As the saying goes: practice makes perfect. If you visit this site regularly and take a few minutes of your time to hone your typing skills you will see a marked difference in no time. Good luck!