What is it?
Practise With Your Own Text lets you type the words that matter to you: study notes, a book chapter, a speech, or passages from your exam syllabus. Paste the text, choose options to make it easier, set a timer if you want a timed test, and type with the same live colours, speed and accuracy as the speed test. Your text is remembered on this device.
Who is it for?
Typing-exam candidates practising set passages, students revising notes by typing them, and teachers giving the class one shared passage.
How to use it
- Paste or type in “Paste or type the text you want to practise…”.
- Tick options: Join lines into one paragraph, All small letters, Remove punctuation.
- Choose a timer: No time limit, 1, 2, 5 or 10 minutes.
- Press Start typing and copy the text shown; read “… WPM with …% accuracy” and press Again. Clear empties the box; Try a sample loads a passage.
How speed is counted: every 5 correct characters (letters, spaces and punctuation) count as one word, divided by the minutes you typed. 250 correct characters in one minute is 50 WPM. Accuracy is the share of keystrokes that were right.
Tips
- Typing out notes is a proven way to remember them.
- Hindi, Punjabi and other languages work if your device keyboard types them.
- For exam practice, paste the official sample passage and set the exam’s time.
- Your text stays only in this browser; nothing is uploaded.
Errors and how to fix them
- “Paste or type some text first (at least a few words)”: the box is empty or too short.
- “Long text: using the first 20,000 characters”: split very long texts into parts.
- Curly quotes changed: ‘ ’ “ ” become straight quotes, dashes become -, and … becomes three dots, because keyboards type the plain forms.
- A letter turns red: you pressed the wrong key. Press Backspace and type the right one. Mistakes you leave in lower your accuracy.
Open the tool: Practise With Your Own Text
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