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A one minute typing test in Italian, using the words people write most: essere, come, giorno, più, perché. Accented letters count, and a setting can make them optional.
The words come from a frequency-ranked list of everyday Italian: essere, con, per, come, giorno, notte, with accented words such as più, città and perché along the way. The Advanced difficulty in the test options brings in long words like assolutamente, indipendentemente and responsabilità.
It is scored the standard way: net words per minute from correctly typed words, five characters to a word, and accuracy from every keystroke. The clock starts on your first key.
Italian accents nearly always fall on the last letter of a word: città, più, così, perché. That makes them easy to plan for.
Turn on Lazy mode in Settings and plain vowels are accepted for accented ones. It is the easiest way to practise Italian on a keyboard that has no accent keys.
Italian runs are saved to your history and statistics in your browser, with a keyboard heatmap, just like 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.
Presspace also has typing tests in Spanish, French, Portuguese and German.
On a Mac, Option+` then the vowel gives a grave accent (à, è, ù), and Option+E then e gives é. On Windows with the US International layout, a backtick then the vowel gives a grave accent, and an apostrophe then e gives é. An Italian keyboard has à, è, ì, ò and ù on their own keys.
Both are e with an accent, but the grave è is open and the acute é is closed. In everyday writing é appears mostly in words ending in -ché, such as perché, and è on its own means is. The test treats them as different letters, unless you switch on Lazy mode.
Usually a little. Italian words are longer on average, with many double consonants, so most bilingual typists score a few words per minute less in Italian. Because a word is always counted as five characters, the numbers are still comparable.
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