Scores & Benchmarks
Every number this site gives you, explained — how it is calculated, what a good result looks like, and why your score moves around.
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A StarCraft professional averaging 300 APM is producing inputs at the rate of a 60 WPM typist. Here is what actions per minute actually measures, and what gaming does and does not transfer to the keyboard.
Only automatized skills choke under pressure — which is why your typing collapses when someone is watching and your mental arithmetic does not. The research, and the one training method that fixes it.
Your typing speed swings by 10 to 30 percent across a normal day, and two short nights of sleep cost you for six days. What actually moves the number.
Typing speed by age and grade, honestly — what school guidance supports, why most age charts online are invented, and where 50, 70, 80 and 100 WPM really sit.
Same hands, different score. The four things typing tests count differently — accuracy, errors, passage and duration — and how to get one number you can trust.
The average typing speed is about 40 words per minute. Here is what 30, 40, 60 and 80 WPM really mean, where your score places you, and why accuracy matters more.
The exact formulas behind your typing score — how net and raw WPM are calculated, why CPM is always five times your WPM, and how consistency is scored.