Monkeytype | A minimalistic, customizable typing test

Created with love by Miodec.
Supported and expanded by many awesome people.
Launched on 15th of May, 2020.

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about

Monkeytype is a minimalistic and customizable typing test. It features many test modes, an account system to save your typing speed history, and user-configurable features such as themes, sounds, a smooth caret, and more. Monkeytype attempts to emulate the experience of natural keyboard typing during a typing test, by unobtrusively presenting the text prompts and displaying typed characters in-place, providing straightforward, real-time feedback on typos, speed, and accuracy.

Test yourself in various modes, track your progress and improve your speed.

word set

By default, this website uses the most common 200 words in the English language to generate its tests. You can change to an expanded set (1000 most common words) in the options, or change the language entirely.

keybinds

You can use tab and enter (or just tab if you have quick tab mode enabled) to restart the typing test. Open the command line by pressing ctrl/cmd + shift + p or esc - there you can access all the functionality you need without touching your mouse

stats

wpm - total number of characters in the correctly typed words (including spaces), divided by 5 and normalised to 60 seconds.

raw wpm - calculated just like wpm, but also includes incorrect words.

acc - percentage of correctly pressed keys.

char - correct characters / incorrect characters. Calculated after the test has ended.

consistency - based on the variance of your raw wpm. Closer to 100% is better. Calculated using the coefficient of variation of raw wpm and mapped onto a scale from 0 to 100.

results screen

After completing a test you will be able to see your wpm, raw wpm, accuracy, character stats, test length, leaderboards info and test info. (you can hover over some values to get floating point numbers). You can also see a graph of your wpm and raw over the duration of the test. Remember that the wpm line is a global average, while the raw wpm line is a local, momentary value. (meaning if you stop, the value is 0)

bug report or feature request

If you encounter a bug, or have a feature request - join the Discord server, send me an email, a direct message on Twitter or create an issue on GitHub.

support

Thanks to everyone who has supported this project. It would not be possible without you and your continued support.

contact

If you encounter a bug, have a feature request or just want to say hi - here are the different ways you can contact me directly.

Twitter

Discord

GitHub

credits

Montydrei for the name suggestion

Everyone who provided valuable feedback on the original reddit post for the prototype of this website

Supporters who helped financially by donating, enabling optional ads or buying merch

Contributors on GitHub that have helped with implementing various features, adding themes and more

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tip: You can also change all these settings quickly using the command line ( ctrl/cmd + shift + p or esc )

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test difficulty

Normal is the classic type test experience. Expert fails the test if you submit (press space) an incorrect word. Master fails if you press a single incorrect key (meaning you have to achieve 100% accuracy).

quick restart

Press tab , esc or enter to quickly restart the test, or to quickly jump to the test page. These options disable tab navigation on most parts of the website. Using the "esc" option will move opening the commandline to the tab key.

repeat quotes

This setting changes the restarting behavior when typing in quote mode. Changing it to 'typing' will repeat the quote if you restart while typing.

blind mode

No errors or incorrect words are highlighted. Helps you to focus on raw speed. If enabled, quick end is recommended.

always show words history

This option will automatically show the words history at the end of the test. Can cause slight lag with a lot of words.

single list command line

When enabled, it will show the command line with all commands in a single list instead of submenu arrangements. Selecting 'manual' will expose all commands only after typing > .

min speed

Automatically fails a test if your speed falls below a threshold.

min accuracy

Automatically fails a test if your accuracy falls below a threshold.

min burst

Automatically fails a test if your raw for a single word falls below this threshold. Selecting 'flex' allows for this threshold to automatically decrease for longer words.

british english

When enabled, the website will use the British spelling instead of American. Note that this might not replace all words correctly. If you find any issues, please let us know.

language

Change in which language you want to type.

funbox

These are special modes that change the website in some special way (by altering the word generation, behavior of the website or the looks). Give each one of them a try!

custom layoutfluid

Select which layouts you want the layoutfluid funbox to cycle through.

freedom mode

Allows you to delete any word, even if it was typed correctly.

strict space

Pressing space at the beginning of a word will insert a space character when this mode is enabled.

opposite shift mode

This mode will force you to use opposite shift keys for shifting. Using an incorrect one will count as an error. This feature ignores keys in locations B , Y , and ^ because many people use the other hand for those keys. If you're using external software to emulate your layout (including QMK), you should use the "keymap" mode - the standard "on" will not work. This will enforce opposite shift based on the "keymap layout" setting.

stop on error

Letter mode will stop input when pressing any incorrect letters. Word mode will not allow you to continue to the next word until you correct all mistakes.

confidence mode

When enabled, you will not be able to go back to previous words to fix mistakes. When turned up to the max, you won't be able to backspace at all.

quick end

This only applies to the words mode - when enabled, the test will end as soon as the last word has been typed, even if it's incorrect. When disabled, you need to manually confirm the last incorrect entry with a space.

indicate typos

Shows typos that you've made. Below shows what you typed below the letters and replace will replace the letters with the ones you typed.

hide extra letters

Hides extra letters. This will completely avoid words jumping lines (due to changing width), but might feel a bit confusing when you press a key and nothing happens.

lazy mode

Replaces accents / diacritics / special characters with their normal letter equivalents.

layout emulator

With this setting you can emulate other layouts. This setting is best kept off, as it can break things like dead keys and alt layers.

sound volume

Change the volume of the sound effects.

play sound on click

Plays a short sound when you press a key.

play sound on error

Plays a short sound if you press an incorrect key or press space too early.

smooth caret

The caret will move smoothly between letters and words.

caret style

Change the style of the caret during the test.

pace caret

Displays a second caret that moves at constant speed. The 'average' option averages the speed of last 10 results. The 'daily' option takes the highest speed of the last 24 hours.

repeated pace

When repeating a test, a pace caret will automatically be enabled for one test with the speed of your previous test. It does not override the pace caret if it's already enabled.

pace caret style

Change the style of the pace caret during the test.

live progress style

Change the style of the timer/word count during a timed test.

live progress color

Change the color of the timer/word count number/bar and live speed number.

live progress opacity

Change the opacity of the timer/word count number/bar and live speed number.

highlight mode

Change what is highlighted during the test.

tape mode

Only shows one line which scrolls horizontally. Setting this to 'word' will make it scroll after every word and 'letter' will scroll after every keypress. Works best with smooth line scroll enabled and a monospace font.

smooth line scroll

When enabled, the line transition will be animated.

show all lines

When enabled, the website will show all lines for word, custom and quote mode tests - otherwise the lines will be limited to 3, and will automatically scroll. Using this could cause the timer text and live speed to not be visible.

always show decimal places

Always shows decimal places for values on the result page, without the need to hover over the stats.

typing speed unit

Display typing speed in the specified unit.

start graphs at zero

Force graph axis to always start at zero, no matter what the data is. Turning this off may exaggerate the value changes.

font size

Change the font size of the test words.

font family

page width

Control the width of the content.

keymap

Displays your current layout while taking a test. React shows what you pressed and Next shows what you need to press next.

keymap layout

Controls which layout is displayed on the keymap.

keymap style

keymap legend style

keymap show top row

flip test colors

By default, typed text is brighter than the future text. When enabled, the colors will be flipped and the future text will be brighter than the already typed text.

colorful mode

When enabled, the test words will use the main color, instead of the text color, making the website more colorful.

custom background

Set an image url to be a custom background image. Cover fits the image to cover the screen. Contain fits the image to be fully visible. Max fits the image corner to corner.

custom background filter

Apply various effects to the custom background.

blur

brightness

saturate

opacity

auto switch theme

Enabling this will automatically switch the theme between light and dark depending on the system theme.

light

dark

randomize theme

After completing a test, the theme will be set to a random one. The random themes are not saved to your config. If set to 'favorite' only favorite themes will be randomized. If set to 'light' or 'dark', only presets with light or dark background colors will be randomized, respectively. If set to 'custom', custom themes will be randomized.

theme

live speed

Displays a live speed during the test. Updates once every second.

live accuracy

Displays live accuracy during the test.

live burst

Displays live burst during the test of the last word you typed.

live progress

Displays a live timer for timed tests and word count for word based tests (word, quote or custom mode).

key tips

Shows the keybind tips at the bottom of the page.

out of focus warning

Shows an out of focus reminder after 1 second of being 'out of focus' (not being able to type).

caps lock warning

Displays a warning when caps lock is on.

average

Displays your average speed and/or accuracy over the last 10 tests.

import/export settings

Import or export the settings as JSON.

ads

You can disable or enable ads at any time. "Result" will show one ad on the result page, "on" will add floating vertical banners, and "sellout" will add multiple ads on every page.

(changes will take effect after a refresh).

update cookie preferences

If you changed your mind about which cookies you consent to, you can change your preferences here.

revoke all tokens

Revokes all tokens connected to your account. Do this if you think someone else has access to your account.
This will log you out of all devices.

reset settings

Resets settings to the default (but doesn't touch your tags).
You can't undo this action!

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