Type the phrase below as fast and accurately as you can. The timer starts with your first keystroke and your best result is saved on this device.
Numpad Typing Speed Test
The typing speed test measures how fast and accurately you type. Retype the phrase shown above using your physical keyboard or by clicking the on-screen keys. The timer starts the moment you press the first key and stops automatically when the text matches.
Your speed is shown in words per minute (WPM), where one word equals five characters. Accuracy compares your keystrokes against the target text. Your best result is stored in this browser so you can try to beat it.
A unique feature: While you type, you can glance at the on-screen keyboard to see which keys to press. It is also a great way to discover how each character is produced - especially fascinating to watch for Korean and Japanese, where a single block of text is assembled from several keystrokes that light up one after another. You can also type directly on the on-screen keyboard if you do not have a localized physical keyboard.
Every layout comes with its own typing test, using real phrases in that language. Choose one under the test - from Russian and German to Korean, Japanese and Arabic - and the keyboard switches with it. For Korean and Japanese the highlight even walks through the individual jamo or romaji that build each character, so a quick speed test doubles as a lesson in how the script is typed.
The Numpad (also written NumPad or num pad) is the compact block of number keys on the right of a full-size keyboard, and the name is simply a short, everyday clipping of numeric keypad - the precise technical term that makers such as Apple, Microsoft and Logitech print in their manuals. Accountants and data-entry clerks have long called it the ten-key (or tenkey), which is exactly why a keyboard built without this block is sold as tenkeyless, or TKL; gamers favour TKL boards to free up desk space for the mouse. Casual users often just say number pad. Whatever you call it, this Numpad keyboard puts the same calculator-style grid on your screen so you can punch in figures with one hand.
The arrangement is older than the computer. In 1914 the Swedish-American inventor David Sundstrand patented a ten-key adding machine (US patent 1,198,487) that gathered the digits into a tidy 3x3 square with 7 8 9 along the top and a wide 0 beneath - a shape one hand could run through faster than any earlier full-keyboard adder. By the 1950s this ten-key grid was the standard on adding machines and cash registers, and when IBM shipped its first Personal Computer in 1981 it carried the same block onto the keyboard, topped by a Num Lock key that switched the pad between typing digits and moving the cursor. The layout has barely changed since.
This on-screen version keeps the classic calculator geometry - the tall + and Enter keys and the double-width 0 - with one deliberate change: in the top-left corner, where a physical keyboard puts Num Lock, we put a Backspace key instead. On a virtual pad there is nothing to lock - the digits are always on - so that corner is far more useful for fixing a mistyped figure. Click the keys with the mouse, tap them on a touch screen, or use the numeric keypad on your own keyboard and watch each key light up.
A numeric keypad earns its keep wherever long strings of numbers fly by - spreadsheets, invoices, bank entries, statistics and, above all, bookkeeping. To put it to work, take the Numpad typing test: instead of pangrams it serves up the kind of running calculations an accountant punches all day - sums, subtotals, percentages and price times quantity - so you can build real ten-key speed.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Your speed is shown in words per minute (WPM). As is standard for typing tests, one "word" counts as five characters, so the score is the number of correctly typed characters divided by five and then by the time you spent. The timer starts the moment you press the first key and stops automatically when your text matches the phrase, so you never start or stop it yourself.
Accuracy is the share of your keystrokes that were correct. Every key you press counts, and each character that does not match the expected one is logged as a mistake - even if you delete it and retype it afterwards. A clean run with no wrong keys scores 100%, while fixing typos along the way lowers the figure. Speed and accuracy are tracked separately, so you can tell whether to push for pace or for precision.
Number-pad work is usually measured not in words per minute but in keystrokes per hour (KSPH): data-entry roles often quote a target in the region of 8,000-10,000 KSPH, and fast professional operators push well beyond it. This test still reports your result as WPM (five keystrokes to a "word"), so use the figure to track your own ten-key progress rather than to compare it with letter typing. The score to beat is your own best, saved here on this device.
On your device only. Your best WPM is kept in this browser's local storage - it is not tied to any account and never leaves your computer, so there is nothing to sign up for. You will see it again on your next visit in the same browser, but not on a different device, and clearing your browsing data resets it. In a private or incognito window the score shows during the session but is not kept afterwards.
Yes. Everything happens in your browser. The practice phrases are the only thing fetched from the server; your keystrokes, your speed and your best score are computed and stored locally and are never sent anywhere. There are no accounts, and what you type is never recorded.
Yes, it is completely free, and there is nothing to download, install or sign up for. The test runs entirely in your web browser - just open the page and start typing.
Yes - that is the usual way to take it. Type on your physical keyboard and the matching on-screen keys light up as you go, so you can keep your eyes on the text. You can also click or tap the on-screen keys directly, which helps when you do not have a localized physical keyboard for the layout you are practising. Because the highlight shows exactly which key produces each character, the test doubles as a way to learn a new layout.
All twenty-three Qwertia layouts have their own typing test: English, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Korean, Arabic, Japanese, Turkish, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Polish, Czech, Greek, Azerbaijani, Hindi and Bengali, plus the alternative Dvorak layout and a calculator-style Numpad. Each test draws on real phrases in that language, and choosing a layout under the test - or with the language button on the keyboard - switches both the phrases and the on-screen keyboard. Pick one from the links below the test.
It is the one layout here that is not a way of writing a language at all - it is a pure number pad, and its closest cousin is the one device almost everyone carries that gets the order backwards: the telephone. A calculator and a computer's numeric keypad run 7 8 9 across the top row, but a phone keypad runs 1 2 3 across the top instead. The calculator order came first, fixed by mechanical adding machines like David Sundstrand's 1914 ten-key; when Bell engineers designed the push-button telephone in the early 1960s they ran human-factors studies and chose the opposite arrangement. One reason often cited is that seasoned adding-machine operators were so fast on the 789-on-top grid that they out-paced the phone exchange and misdialled, so the inverted 123-on-top layout was meant to slow them to a reliable speed. The two conventions have coexisted ever since, which is why jumping from a keyboard's Numpad to a phone keypad can leave your fingers reaching for the wrong row.
Yes, and they are the most interesting tests to watch. The Korean test uses the standard Dubeolsik layout and assembles the jamo you type into full Hangul blocks; the Japanese test lets you type romaji (converted to kana as you go) or the JIS kana directly; and the Arabic test writes right to left on the Arabic 101 layout. Greek, Russian Cyrillic, and the Devanagari and Bengali INSCRIPT layouts for Hindi and Bengali are all here too. For Korean and Japanese the on-screen highlight even walks through the individual keystrokes that build each character, so a quick speed test doubles as a lesson in how the script is typed.
Instead of pangrams, the Numpad typing test serves up the kind of running calculations an accountant punches all day - sums, subtotals, percentages and price times quantity - so you build real ten-key speed on the calculator-style number pad rather than practising letters. Because the Numpad has no space bar, each set of figures is a self-contained phrase.
Yes. You can embed the test on your own site with a single line of HTML: click Embed (or the "embed it" link under the description) to copy a ready-made iframe snippet. It runs just as it does here, entirely in the visitor's browser.