Type invented call notes by eye or by ear: addresses, plates, callback numbers and 24-hour times.
WPMType each word and press space after it. The clock starts on your first key.Kitchenfireat63AlderStreet,Pellwick,awoodhousewithtwofloors.Thecallersaysapancaughtfireandtheflamesreachedthecabinets.Everyoneisout:twoadults,onechildandadog.Smokeiscomingfromthebackdoor.Thehousetotheleftisabouttenfeetaway.Callback555-0115.
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Listening uses a voice that is built into your device, a few words at a time. Nothing is sent anywhere.
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A word is five keystrokes, so 1 WPM is 300 KPH. Change either number.
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1 minute of typing. Words per minute is correct characters divided by five; accuracy is correct keystrokes out of all keystrokes. Keystrokes per hour (KPH) is correct characters per minute times 60, so 1 WPM is 300 KPH.
This 911 dispatcher typing test times you on 40 invented call notes: addresses, plates, callback numbers, spelled surnames and 24-hour times. Pick 1, 3 or 5 minutes or No timer, read the note or listen to it, and get WPM, KPH and accuracy. Practice for dispatcher and 911 operator applicants. A self-test: no certificate.
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What each call note carries
Each note runs 43 to 64 words and carries where, what happened, who is hurt and a callback number. The set has 10 traffic calls, 10 medical, 8 fire and 12 for a police dispatcher, from a break-in to a found dog. A plate such as 62B H7M changes between letters and digits three times in seven keystrokes.
Read the note, or listen to it
Choose a note in the Passage menu; your first key starts the clock. When you read, a note that ends early hands over to the next. To type by ear, press Listen to it, choose No timer, then Start the test: a voice on your device speaks the note a few words at a time, with Say it again and a Speed menu, and reads only the note you chose.
Type a plate as two chunks: 4T9, space, K18. Say the chunk, type it, then look back.
For K-O-W-A-L-C-Z-Y-K on a US or UK keyboard, turn Caps Lock on: the letters come out as capitals and the hyphen stays a hyphen.
Ten minutes: a 1 minute run in each call group, Three abandoned vehicles twice, then one note by ear with No timer.
Questions and answers
Can I type the call notes by ear?
Yes. Listen to it uses a voice installed on your device, not a recording of a caller, and the text never leaves it. With no such voice the switch is greyed out. The voice may read a plate such as 4T9 K18 as a word and a phone number as a sum. We do not know how any agency runs its test, so ask the recruiter.
Which call notes are the hardest to type?
The 13 with 14 digits or more. Found dog with a tag and Burglar alarm, owners away carry 22 each, and Three abandoned vehicles has three plates in three patterns. Scoring goes by position, so 555-142 typed for 555-0142 earns four characters of eight.
Are the calls, numbers and places real?
No. Every call, name, plate and address is invented. Phone numbers sit in 555-0100 to 555-0199, the block reserved for fiction; the four towns match no place in the US Census Bureau's 2025 gazetteer; full plates fit no standard-issue US format listed on Wikipedia, though a personalised plate could match by chance. All checked 19 September 2026. Medical calls give no advice.
All 40 call notes
Traffic and vehicle calls 10
Car off the road in rainNo numbers until the callback. Direction words carry the location: two miles east, south side. A slip there sends the unit to the wrong bank.
Deer strike at nightLocation by landmark, not by address: half a mile north of the Copper Mill Road turn. Plate W33X 8RT has a doubled 3 that is easy to type once.
Hit and run on a parked carA partial plate is typed as given, 7GV, never padded and never guessed. House number 318 and the direction of travel matter more than the make of the car.
Motorcycle downLeft leg, southbound lane, leaking fuel: three details for three different crews. Passer-by takes a hyphen.
School bus broken downSmall numbers that must be right: 22 children, bus 17, house number 1450. Type digits as digits, never as words.
Stalled truck on the bridgeShort flat sentences, the way a calm caller talks. The plate is six characters with one space: K47 DM9.
Three abandoned vehiclesThree plates, a row, a range of spaces and a callback: 19 digits in 57 words. Each plate has a different pattern, so none can be typed on rhythm.
Traffic signal outAn intersection, a compass corner and no callback. 'Did not leave a name' is worth typing: it tells the next reader not to look for one.
Two-car crash at an intersectionTwo plates and a callback in 49 words: 15 digits. Read each plate as two chunks, 4T9 then K18, and type the space between them.
Wrong-way driver on the bypassA moving call with no address and no plate, so direction is everything: southbound in the northbound lanes, mile marker 41.
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Medical calls 10
Allergic reaction at a dinerWhat the friend knows and what he does not know both go in. Commas separate the symptoms; type them as written.
Chest pain at a feed storeA four-digit house number, 2210, in the middle of a sentence. 'East side' and 'loading dock door' tell the crew where to go, so they are typed in full.
Child with trouble breathingApartment 3B and entry code 2058: a letter beside a digit, then four digits to get exactly right. A wrong code leaves the crew at a locked door.
Collapse in a grocery aisleNo patient name and no exact age: 'in her thirties' is typed as words. Aisle 9 and 760 Eastgate Avenue are the digits.
Confused husband, spelled surnameA spelled surname: K-O-W-A-L-C-Z-Y-K, nine capitals and eight hyphens. Type it letter by letter and do not trust your memory of the name.
Contractions four minutes apartA clock time in 24-hour form, 02:14, with a colon. Then three numbers close together: 38 weeks, 3-year-old, 4409 Birchfield Road.
Fall at homeAn age and a house number sit close together: 81-year-old, 27 Ivy Court. Access details such as the unlocked door are part of the note.
Hot oil burn at a bakeryBody side and extent are typed exactly as said: left forearm and hand, wrist to elbow. Then 118 Foundry Street and the alley door.
Leg injury on the school fieldThree levels of location: the school, the street gate, field 2 behind the gym. A 16-year-old takes two hyphens.
Seizure on a city busA location that is a vehicle: city bus 12 at the corner of two streets. 'About 40' and 'about two minutes' stay approximate, as the caller gave them.
Fire and hazard calls 8
Barn fire with a propane tankDistances matter: about 40 feet from the barn to the propane tank. 3381 Pike Hollow Road, the second farm past the creek, gives a number and a landmark.
Brush fire beside the bypassNo address exists, so the note builds one: west side, mile marker 36, moving uphill. Size is given by comparison, not in numbers.
Car fire in a parking garageLevel 3, 400 Union Avenue, plate P83 RK6. Short sentences in the order things were seen, which is how a fast call arrives.
Carbon monoxide alarmA count of people, two of them with a symptom, and one plain fact about the furnace. The note records what was said and draws no conclusion.
Kitchen fire, everyone outWho is out of the building comes before anything else: two adults, one child and a dog. A colon introduces the list.
Power line down on a wet roadOne hazard and several facts about who is near it. 'Number 86' gives the house without a full address line, as callers often do.
Smell of gas in an apartmentUnit 12 at 2750 Orchard Lane, and a second person who may be inside. 'North wall' is the detail the gas crew needs.
Warehouse fire alarmAn alarm company call is nearly all numbers: 9000, zone 4, operator 318, reference 60-2257 and a callback. 21 digits in 43 words.
Police and public service calls 12
Break-in in progressAn in-progress call is typed in the present tense, as the caller speaks. 1207 Vine Street, upstairs, front bedroom: the location inside the house counts too.
Burglar alarm, owners awaySensor order and a time to the minute, 03:52. A reference number such as 44-1093 is typed with its hyphen.
Fight behind a barCounts stay as the caller gave them: five or six people, one on the ground. No names, and no guess about who started it.
Found dog with a tagTwo phone numbers in one passage, the tag's and the caller's. Keep them apart: 555-0187 is on the collar and 555-0114 is the callback.
Lost child at the county fairA description runs head to toe: hair, coat, jeans, boots. Capitals on Ferris and on gate B. First name only for a child.
Loud music after midnightTwo apartment numbers one character apart, 2A and 1A, and two clock times, 23:30 and 05:00. Swap either pair and the note points at the wrong door.
Open door at a closed storeClosing time 18:00 and 140 Mason Street are the only digits before the callback. The rest is what the caller did and did not do.
Pickup ran a stop signA moving call: the street and the direction change while you type. Plate 93K Z5T mixes letters and digits on both sides of the space, so neither half can be typed on rhythm.
Teenagers on a cannery roofNo street number, so landmarks do the work: end of Wharf Road, north side, marina office. 'Fenced off and marked unsafe' is the hazard line.
Theft from a parked carA time window, 12:15 to 13:40, a lot row and a plate: 17 digits in 56 words, all of them needed for the report.
Van idling by a playgroundOnly part of a plate, typed as given: the last three characters, K4D. No name appears here, and no guess about the driver.
Welfare check, spelled surnameThe second spelled surname: L-I-N-D-Q-V-I-S-T, with a Q and no U after it. 18:00 is six in the evening on the 24-hour clock.
How this list was compiled: Own work, written for this page: every call, address, name, plate and reference number is invented, and no passage describes a real incident. The four towns (Pellwick, Harrowmere, Dunmarrow, Quillhaven) were checked on 2026-09-19 against the US Census Bureau 2025 Gazetteer files for places and for county subdivisions, https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2025_Gazetteer/ (2025_Gaz_place_national.zip and 2025_Gaz_cousubs_national.zip), and none is the name of a US place or county subdivision. Every phone number is in 555-0100 to 555-0199, the block reserved for fictional use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_(North_American_Numbering_Plan), checked 2026-09-19. Plates: every full plate in the set has one of five shapes (1A2 B34, 12A B3C, A12 BC3, 1AB C2D and A12B 3CD). On 2026-09-19 each plate was tested against every serial format at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_license_plate_designs_and_serial_formats, in its two tables of standard-issue passenger plates (those now issued, and those still valid but not issued now), reading X in a format as any letter or digit; none of the plates fits any format. Every shape has a letter in fourth place, which rules out Arizona's mixed formats, where the fourth character is always a digit. A personalised plate can carry nearly any string, so a match with a plate on the road cannot be ruled out and would be chance. The hit and run and the van by the playground give only three characters of a plate. Reference numbers are made-up strings. Callers are named only in calls that involve no crime. Words that British and American English spell differently are left out. Licence: own work