Typing speed WPM test
Type the sample below for 60 seconds to measure your real words per minute — then see how many hours a week the keyboard is costing you compared to just speaking.
Why Typing Speed Matters
Your Words Per Minute (WPM) directly dictates your digital productivity. The average office worker types at around 40 WPM. Professionals who rely heavily on writing may reach 70–80 WPM. However, conversational speech naturally flows at 150 to 200 WPM.
This discrepancy creates a cognitive bottleneck: your brain processes information and generates sentences significantly faster than your fingers can input them into a computer. This is why modern professionals are switching from traditional keyboards to AI dictation software.
How to improve your WPM
Touch-typing practice and a good keyboard can incrementally improve your physical typing speed. But the biggest jump comes from bypassing the keyboard entirely: tools like CoScript turn natural speech into clean, formatted text and paste it directly into any Windows application — text output at the speed of thought, with zero physical strain.
Stop typing. Start talking.
CoScript turns your voice into clean, AI-formatted text and pastes it straight into any Windows app at up to 200 words per minute — offline engine, 100+ languages, 30+ writing tones. Free to start.