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Travel & Geography Words Per Minute Test

This online words per minute test gives you the ability to measure your typing speed and track your results. This is a fun way to test and improve your typing speed. The travel and geography paragraphs are meant to let your mind wander as you type. Imagine that you are exploring strange new places while your fingers dance over the keyboard.

Words Per Minute, commonly called WPM, is most commonly used as a basis for typing tests, especially on computers. Typing these travel-related paragraphs will allow you to test your typing skills and measure how good you are at typing. What’s your current typing speed? Normal typing speed is 35 to 50 words per minute.

If you don’t like the random test prompt you can get a different (random) prompt with the “change test” button – or select your favorite place to travel from the list below. Selections are listed shortest (1 minute typing tests) to longest (5 minute typing tests).

Personalized Feedback

This feedback graph will follow you from page to page for your typing session. You can see more details by mousing over the graph. The session is reset when the tab on your browser is closed.

Accuracy Key:

96-100%

86-95%

76-85%

66-75%

51-65%

0-50%

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Check Your WPM Typing Speed Here

To find out how fast you type, just start typing in the blank textbox on the right of the test prompt. You will see your progress, including errors on the left side as you type.

You can fix errors as you go, or correct them at the end with the help of the spell checker. If you need to restart the test, delete the text in the text box. Interactive feedback shows you your current wpm and accuracy.

In order to complete the test and share your results, you need to get 100% accuracy. You can review your progress for this session with the feedback chart. Just hover over a dot to see what your average speed and accruacy are for that key.

Letter Drills

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

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French Word Typing Drills

Financial Typing Test

Spanish Word Typing Drills

German Typing Tests

History Typing Tests

Indonesian Typing Tests

Pangram Typing Drills

Select a Specific Typing Test:

Click on a topic to use it as your test prompt. Selections are ranked according to difficulty from '*' (easiest typing tests) to '*****' (most challenging typing tests). For more details, check the difficulty key at the bottom of the page.

Short typing tests for beginners: (1 - 3 minute typing test at < 30 wpm)

Intermediate typing tests: (3-6 minutes at 40 wpm)

Hard typing tests for advanced typists: (over 4 minutes at 60+ wpm)

If you have a topic that you would like to see added to the list above, please feel free to contact us with your suggestion for a new paragraph typing test.

Typing Test Difficulty Levels

Our typing tests are ranked on level of difficulty. The algorithm to calculate difficulty depends on the average word length and how many special characters like capitals, numbers and symbols are included in the text. Most standard pre-employment typing tests will be in the normal range. You should expect to get higher wpm scores on easier tests and lower wpm scores on the more difficult tests.

* Very Easy Typing Test
** Easy Typing Test
*** Normal Typing Test
**** Difficult Typing Test
***** Very Difficult Typing Test

How To Calculate Words Per Minute on a Typing Test

When you are trying to figure out your score on a words per minute typing test you need to figure out how many words you have typed, and how long it took to type them.

WPM Speed

To calculate the word count for typed text we use a standard “average” word length of 5 characters. You count all the characters (including spaces) in the text. Then you divide that number by 5 to get a total number of words typed. (Learn more about how word count varies for other applications.)

Next you need to figure out how long it took to type the text. On many tests you are asked to type for a set amount of time. When you are taking a pre-employment typing test, keep in mind that the text selected is too long for most typists to complete in the time given. At The Practice Test we use the actual time it took you to type a selection. Since the computer does the math, we don’t need to limit you to exact minutes.

Adjusted WPM for Accuracy

Another key to scoring a wpm test is accuracy. Traditionally, you count all your errors then divide by the number of minutes. Finally, subtract that number from the raw words per minute score to get an adjusted wpm. This is the score that employers will look at. This adjusted rate estimates time for your to correct your mistakes and is a remnant from the days of manual typewriters. On our tests, we expect you to correct your mistakes as you go (or edit them when you finish) and so our final wpm already includes any time you need to fix errors.

Finally, you divide the number of words by the time it took you to type them. On 1-minute typing tests, this is easy as the score is the same as your word count. For longer tests you will need to do more math. One of the advantages of taking typing tests at ThePracticeTest.com is we do all the math for you. You can just focus on typing quickly and accurately until you have completed the test.