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Key Hero typing test is an addictive way to check and improve your typing
Key Hero is an online typing test implemented in Flash. It's very, very good, and very addictive.
You'll be given an assortment of texts -- all from known books or films, and all quite nice to read. You hit Start, and it then waits for your first keystroke. Once you start typing, the timer kicks in. When you make a mistake, it beeps and turns red. You fix it, and continue.
At the end your overall speed and accuracy for that text is displayed. You'll also see a graph that shows your speed throughout the text. If you do more than one test, Key Hero presents a graph at the bottom of the page showing you all of your previous scores so you can see whether or not you're improving or maintaining the same speed.
There's another graph, showing the type of mistakes you make. These can be bad ordering, wrong case, doublet, or "other". Most of mine are bad ordering.
So, as you can see in the screenshot, my top score is 110.3 WPM, with a 99.41% accuracy rate -- I should mention I use Colemak, and that it wasn't my first try.
What's your top score? Post a screenshot, don't just tell us!
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Subscribe to commentsPlatinum_SkeetAug 9th 2010 3:27PM
Addicting I'm averaging around 60 WPM... Can't believe there are top scores with double that...
5hRreDDyAug 9th 2010 4:52PM
You're right, I couldn't stop playing with it for ages. I only managed about 50 WPM though, but that isn't too bad.
ExtantAug 9th 2010 5:07PM
I greatly prefer typeracer.com....the interface is a lot better in my opinion...
emmzeeAug 9th 2010 5:19PM
About 70 WPM here, I thought I was faster than that :(
S7ORMAug 9th 2010 5:55PM
I'm more interested in your non standard keyboard layout. I could do that, except when I go to work I would be stuffed, unless i changed it there too, but then my coworkers would be stuffed.
ChristopherM.RiosAug 9th 2010 10:54PM
Averaging 101 with 115 being a max? I am typing MUCH faster than I assumed. I hate Qwerty, but that's what I grew up with, so...
TuekstaAug 10th 2010 2:18AM
Too bad, it doesn't even remember which text fragments I've already typed. And for only one game, the category "games" in plural is a bit of a disappointment ;)
laeroAug 10th 2010 7:57AM
I needed this, gotten too accustomed to auto-capitalization and other helpers.