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A one minute typing test in German: everyday words, nouns with their capital letters, umlauts and ß. Works on QWERTZ and QWERTY keyboards alike.
The test uses a frequency-ranked list of everyday German: short words like und, mit, auf and aber, nouns with their capital letters like Tag, Hand and Herz, and words with umlauts and ß such as für, Tür, Öl, groß and Fuß. The Advanced difficulty in the test options brings in the long compound words German is famous for.
It is scored the standard way: net words per minute from correctly typed words, five characters to a word, and accuracy from every key you press, capitals included.
If you only want to practise the words, switch on Lazy mode in Settings and plain a, o and u count for ä, ö and ü. ß is a separate letter, so it still has to be typed as ß.
German runs are saved to your history and statistics in your browser, with a keyboard heatmap, the same as any 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.
Presspace also has typing tests in French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. The keyboard layouts guide explains how QWERTZ and AZERTY came about.
German capitalises every noun, so the test does too: Tag, Hand, Kopf, Herz. It means more Shift presses than an English test, which is real German typing practice. Use the Shift key on the opposite side from the letter for the smoothest rhythm.
On a Mac, Option+U then a vowel gives an umlaut, and Option+S gives ß. On Windows with the US International layout, a double quote then a vowel gives ä, ö or ü, and AltGr+S gives ß. Lazy mode accepts a plain vowel for an umlaut, but ß is a letter of its own and still needs typing.
The standard German keyboard layout. It swaps Y and Z compared with QWERTY, because Z is far more common in German, and puts ä, ö and ü to the right of the letters, with ß next to the zero key.
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