1 minute typing test
A one-minute test is a quick check: long enough to see your speed, too short to show how you hold up. Use it to warm up before a longer test, or to track your speed every day.
Your recent tests
No exam we cover uses a one-minute test, so treat this as practice only. Results under 60 seconds of typing are not saved.
How your result is worked out
Gross speed counts every five keystrokes, spaces included, as one word and divides by the minutes. Net speed then takes your mistakes off. Mistakes are marked the way SSC’s evaluation guidelines do: a missed, added or misspelt word is a full mistake; a wrong capital letter, punctuation mark or space is a half mistake. Accuracy is the share of words you typed correctly.
What speed do exams ask for?
Across the 17 exams on this site whose English typing test sets a words-per-minute target, it runs from 20 to 40 words per minute; 30 WPM is the most common. For Hindi it runs from 20 to 35 WPM (12 exams), most often 25. Each exam measures it its own way, so check yours in the exam-mode tests.
How to use a 1-minute test
Use one minute as a warm-up and a quick check, not as your real speed. Take three one-minute tests in a row and note the middle result. If your net speed is well below gross, slow down a little: in an exam every mistake costs more than the time you saved.
Other lengths: 2 minute · 3 minute · 5 minute · 10 minute · 15 minute