How fast do you really type?
Type a short text in Arabic or English, on your phone or on a keyboard. First, guess your speed. Then find out how close you were, and how your phone compares with a real keyboard.
How the score works
The same rules as most typing tests, so you can compare your score with others.
Spaces and punctuation count too. Using characters instead of real words keeps short and long words fair, in both languages.
Your speed counts the characters that match the text when time runs out. Mistakes you leave in don't add to your speed.
If you type a wrong letter, it counts against your accuracy, even if you fix it afterwards. Fixing mistakes is good, but it costs time.
On a phone, use your keyboard the way you normally do. We score what ends up in the box, just like a real message.
Type faster without trying harder
In a large study of phone typing, people who typed with two thumbs were faster than people who used one finger.
Every mistake costs you twice: once to make it and once to fix it. Slow down a little and you often end up faster.
On a keyboard, keeping your eyes on the screen instead of your hands makes a big difference. A few minutes of touch typing practice a day adds up.
Arabic and English use different keys and different habits. Being fast in one doesn't make you fast in the other, so practise the one you need.
Sources: Dhakal, Feit, Kristensson and Oulasvirta, "Observations on Typing from 136 Million Keystrokes" (Aalto University and University of Cambridge, CHI 2018): about 168,000 volunteers typing on physical keyboards averaged about 52 words per minute. Palin, Feit, Kim, Kristensson and Oulasvirta, "How do People Type on Mobile Devices? Observations from a Study with 37,000 Volunteers" (MobileHCI 2019): the average on phones was about 36 words per minute, and two-thumb typists were faster than one-finger typists. Both studies used English sentences in an online test, so they describe people who chose to take a typing test, not everyone. We don't know of a study this large for Arabic. "5 characters = 1 word" is the usual typing-test convention. Your scores stay on this device; only an anonymous score range is counted for the "others" bars.