Free to use, no sign-up, works on any phone.
It opens as a 15-minute test, and the buttons under the typing box let you switch to 5 or 10 minutes instead. The clock does not start on page load; it starts on your first keystroke and the test ends when the timer reaches zero.
No. Each run shuffles a bank of general-knowledge paragraphs covering topics like AI, the ocean, Stoicism and coffee, then stitches fifteen of them into one long article, so you get fresh text every restart. The New Text / Restart button reloads a different article without changing your selected time.
Gross WPM counts every character you have typed divided by five, while Net WPM counts only the characters that matched the passage, so mistakes pull it down. The accuracy box is the share of your keystrokes that were correct, and the end-of-test card shows Net WPM as the headline figure alongside accuracy, raw WPM and total keystrokes.
Pasting into the typing box is blocked and shows a warning, so the score always reflects keys you actually pressed. The virtual keyboard that lights up each key as you press it only appears on wider screens and is hidden on phones and small tablets.