2 Minute Typing Test on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Type the passage for two minutes; the clock starts with your first key.

Type each word and press space after it. The clock starts on your first key. Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice "without pictures or conversations?" So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!" (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge. In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.

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This 2 minute typing test is the whole first chapter of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), cut into eight short passages. Type in the box; when a passage ends, the next follows until two minutes are up.

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Why two minutes

A typing test in 2 minutes is long enough that one fast burst cannot carry the score, and short enough to repeat three times in a row. Type the same opening passage each time and compare the three results.

What slows people down in Carroll

Brackets, colons and questions Alice asks herself. The jar label ORANGE MARMALADE and the bottle's DRINK ME are printed in capitals and must be typed that way. A dash is two hyphens with no spaces.

Read a line ahead of your fingers: the long sentences here turn on a colon or a bracket.

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How is a 2 minutes typing test scored?

Your speed is correct characters divided by five, per minute, so a slip you leave uncorrected does not count toward it. Accuracy shows beside the speed. Your best is kept in this browser only.

Is a 2 minute score comparable with a 1 minute score?

Not quite. A two minute run on book prose with capitals and punctuation usually scores lower than a one minute run on common lower-case words. Compare a result only with another taken at the same length on the same kind of text.

Why Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?

It was first published in 1865, so it is in the public domain in the United States, and its first chapter falls neatly into short scenes: the Rabbit, the fall, the hall of doors, the bottle and the cake.

All 8 passages

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), chapter 1 8

The White Rabbit Runs By The opening of the book: a hot, sleepy afternoon, a rabbit with a waistcoat-pocket and a watch, and Alice down the hole after it. One long sentence after another, joined by colons and semicolons.
Down the Well Alice falls slowly enough to look at the shelves and maps on the walls and take down a jar labelled in capitals. Type ORANGE MARMALADE with Caps Lock or the Shift key held, exactly as printed.
Latitude and Longitude Alice guesses how far she has fallen and tries out grand words she does not understand. A dash typed as two hyphens cuts off her first guess, and she calls the people on the far side of the earth the Antipathies.
Do Cats Eat Bats? Alice talks to herself about her cat Dinah, then lands on a heap of sticks and dry leaves. Short questions and brackets in plenty: watch the closing bracket after each aside.
The Little Golden Key A hall of locked doors, a glass table, a tiny key and a garden seen through a door fifteen inches high. The chapter's favourite phrase, out-of-the-way, first turns up here.
Drink Me A bottle with a paper label, and Alice's careful rules about poison before she tastes it. The label is printed in capitals, and the list of flavours runs on in commas inside a bracket.
Ten Inches High Alice shrinks, waits to see if she will go out altogether like a candle, then finds she has forgotten the key and cannot reach it. The shortest passage here.
Eat Me Alice scolds herself, finds a very small cake marked in currants, and eats it. The last part of the chapter, with the pretend two people and the words Which way?

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How this list was compiled: Eight passages cut from chapter 1, Down the Rabbit-Hole, of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, first published in London by Macmillan in 1865 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland). A work first published before 1931 is in the public domain in the United States (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_in_the_United_States). The chapter was split at paragraph breaks into parts under 1,600 characters, listed in reading order, so a finished passage rolls into the next. Changes to the text: hard-wrapped lines and paragraphs were joined with single spaces, curly quotation marks were set straight, the underscores that mark italics were removed, each dash was set as two hyphens, and the rows of stars that mark a pause in the story were left out. Spellings of the time, such as to-night and curtsey, stay. Characters divided by five give standard words (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute). Titles of the parts and the notes are own work. All checked 2026-09-23. Licence: Public domain in the United States: a novel first published in 1865 (London: Macmillan), before 1931 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_in_the_United_States). Part titles and notes are own work.