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Paste any text up to 600 words, or load a .txt file. Then type it and get the same detailed results as a standard test.
Open the text box from the options row, paste your passage or load a .txt file, and choose Use this text. The test builds itself from what you gave it. Line breaks become spaces, capitals and punctuation stay exactly as you wrote them, and the run ends when you type the last word. Presspace remembers your last twelve texts on this device, so you can switch between them without pasting again.
It is scored like any other test: net WPM from correctly typed words, raw WPM from every keystroke, accuracy, corrected and uncorrected errors, consistency and a replay. The useful difference is that the text is fixed. Type the same passage again next week and the comparison is fair, which a random word list never quite gives you.
For regular practice, pick a passage of 100 to 200 words: long enough to settle in, short enough to repeat. Type it three times in a row and watch the slowest words list shrink. For dense technical text, set Stop on error to Word, so you cannot move on past a mistake. It forces you to slow down on the hard parts, which is where the practice pays off.
If you would rather have ready-made passages, the quote typing test has real writing in three lengths and the code typing test covers source code. For a structured way to fit custom text into your week, see how to build a practice routine.
No. The text is stored in your browser on this device and never leaves it. Presspace keeps your twelve most recent texts so you can pick one up again later.
Up to 600 words. Line breaks become spaces, so a pasted list or a document with several paragraphs turns into one continuous passage.
Yes. Paste text in any language your keyboard can type. If your keyboard has no easy way to type accents, turn on Lazy mode in settings, which makes accents optional so é counts as e.