Typing Speed Trainer

Most typing tests measure the same two numbers — words per minute and accuracy — and stop there. That's a reasonable baseline, but it treats every run in isolation: today's 62 WPM tells you nothing about whether you're actually improving unless you're manually tracking your own history across sessions. It also treats every keystroke equally, when in practice most typists have a small handful of specific letters or combinations that account for a disproportionate share of their errors.

This tool's ghost race addresses the first problem directly. Rather than typing against an abstract number, you type against a replay of your own best run for the exact same test configuration — same mode, same duration or word count, same content type and settings — visualized as a small figure racing along a track next to a ghost icon. Beating your own ghost is a concrete, visible goal in a way that "beat 62 WPM" isn't. If you're brand new to a configuration and have no ghost yet, you race a steady synthetic pace bot instead, so the track is never empty.

The combo and score system borrows a mechanic from rhythm games rather than from other typing tests: consecutive correct keystrokes build a combo counter, and every ten-keystroke tier bumps a score multiplier, up to a cap. A single mistake resets the combo to zero. This rewards sustained accuracy over raw speed in a way a plain WPM number doesn't — two typists with identical final WPM can have very different scores depending on how many long, clean streaks they managed to string together versus how choppy their run was.

The weak-key tracking runs quietly in the background of every test you complete, tallying attempts and errors per character across your full history — not just one run. Once it has enough data on a handful of keys, a Forge Drill option unlocks: practice text generated with those specific characters woven in more often than plain random text would produce, so a five-minute drill actually targets the two or three letters actually costing you accuracy, instead of hoping they come up by chance in ordinary text.