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Real sentences from real writers, with every capital and comma left in. The author appears when you finish.
A standard test gives you lowercase words with no punctuation. Real writing looks nothing like that. The quote test hands you a real passage, anything from a one-line saying to a full paragraph, with capitals, commas, apostrophes and full stops exactly as written. It runs until you finish the passage, and the last word submits itself, so there is no need to press Space at the end.
The pool holds more than 70 passages from public domain writers. Pick short, medium or long on the options row, or any to mix them up. The author is revealed when you finish.
The rules match the timed tests, except the clock runs for as long as you take. A word only counts if every character matches, so a missing capital or a dropped comma makes that word wrong. Accuracy is correct keystrokes over all keystrokes. Because a passage is fixed, typing the same quote twice gives you a fair before-and-after comparison, which a random word list cannot.
Writers, students and office workers who mostly type sentences, and anyone getting ready for a copy test that uses paragraphs of prose. A quote score is a better guide to how fast you will write an email than a word-list score. When you want longer stretches of prose, the 5 minute test with punctuation turned on is the next step. The touch typing guide covers the right finger for every key, punctuation included.
Quotes include capitals, punctuation and longer words, all of which need extra reaches and the Shift key. A drop of several WPM compared with a plain word test is normal. The gap shrinks as your Shift and punctuation habits improve.
Choose short, medium or long on the options row, or any to mix them. Short quotes are a line or so and long ones are full passages. Your score is based on the time you take to finish the whole quote.
The passages come from public domain writing by well-known authors. The author is shown on the results screen, so you find out who you were typing once you finish.