5 minute typing test
Five minutes is the length most people practise with. Mistakes and tiredness start to show, so your net speed here is a fair guide to where you stand.
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Exams with a 5-minute typing test
These exams give 5 minutes. Their exam-mode tests use their own passage length, backspace rule and error limit: UPSSSC Junior Assistant.
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 5-minute test
Five minutes is half of most exam tests. Speed usually drops after the first two minutes, so this length shows whether you can hold your pace. When your net speed here passes your exam’s target, move on to the full 10 minutes.
Other lengths: 1 minute · 2 minute · 3 minute · 10 minute · 15 minute
Exams with a 5-minute typing test
| Exam | Language | Time | To qualify |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPSSSC Junior Assistant | Hindi | 5 min | 25 WPM |
| UPSSSC Junior Assistant | English | 5 min | 30 WPM |
From each exam’s official notice; open the exam test for its full rules and source.