5 Minute Typing Test

Most typing tests end before fatigue starts. A five-minute run surfaces what actually happens in a working day: pace drops, small errors creep in around the three-minute mark, and accuracy wobbles when you type for longer than a minute. If you're preparing for a job that involves continuous transcription or long documents, the five-minute number is the honest one.

The passage is longer than a typical screenful, so the test scrolls the target text with your cursor — you never have to hunt for where you were. Your result still records net and raw WPM plus accuracy, and it feeds the same progress panel as every other round length.

Your net WPM over five minutes will usually sit below your one-minute score. That gap is the interesting number: small means you sustain your speed; large means you burn out. Use the seven-day chart to watch the gap close, and keep your personal bests separate — the test does this automatically, per round length and per device.

If the last two minutes show a slump, that's a stamina problem, and the fix is more five-minute rounds, not more sprints. Two or three a week is plenty.