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A one minute typing test in French, built from the words people write most: être, après, même, idée. It works on AZERTY and QWERTY, and accents can be made optional.
Words come from a list of everyday French ranked by frequency: avec, pour, dans and bien, alongside words with accents like être, même, après, idée and écrire, and a few with œ, like cœur and sœur. Set the difficulty to Advanced in the test options for long words such as particulièrement and nécessairement.
Scoring is the standard one used across the site: net words per minute from correctly typed words, five characters to a word, and accuracy from every keystroke. The clock starts when you press the first key.
Switch on Lazy mode in Settings and plain letters count for accented ones, so e is accepted for é, è and ê. That is useful on a keyboard without dead keys. The one exception is œ, which is a separate letter rather than an accented one.
French runs are saved to your history and statistics in your browser, with a keyboard heatmap, the same as an English test. The public leaderboards use English words so everyone on a board types the same text, so runs in other languages count towards your own records.
There are also typing tests in Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and German.
Yes. The test reads the characters you type, not the position of the keys, so any layout works. On a French AZERTY keyboard é, è, ç and à sit on the number row, and ê comes from the circumflex key to the right of P followed by e.
A standard French AZERTY keyboard has no œ key, which is why many people type oe instead. On a Mac, Option+Q gives œ. On Windows with the US International layout, AltGr+K gives œ. Lazy mode makes accents optional, but œ is a letter of its own, so it still needs typing as œ.
French words carry more accents, and on many keyboards each accent means an extra key or a stretch to the number row. Most people score a little lower in French at first. Practising the accent keys until you can reach them without looking closes most of the gap.
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