Type the novel's opening lines: Jonathan Harker's journal for 3 May, Munich to Bistritz.
WPMType each word and press space after it. The clock starts on your first key.3May.Bistritz.--LeftMunichat8:35P.M.,on1stMay,arrivingatViennaearlynextmorning;shouldhavearrivedat6:46,buttrainwasanhourlate.Buda-Pesthseemsawonderfulplace,fromtheglimpsewhichIgotofitfromthetrainandthelittleIcouldwalkthroughthestreets.Ifearedtogoveryfarfromthestation,aswehadarrivedlateandwouldstartasnearthecorrecttimeaspossible.TheimpressionIhadwasthatwewereleavingtheWestandenteringtheEast;themostwesternofsplendidbridgesovertheDanube,whichishereofnoblewidthanddepth,tookusamongthetraditionsofTurkishrule.
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This Dracula typing test has 20 passages in the order Harker wrote them; More options lists them. As a typing test, Dracula sets what a word list cannot: a diary's dates, clock times and place names.
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A diary is the test
Harker writes in entries, and each opens on its date and a dash: 3 May. Bistritz.--Left Munich. Clock times take a colon (8:35, 6:46, 7:30), and his notes to himself sit in brackets with a full stop after Mem: (Mem., get recipe for Mina.)
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A long dash is typed as two hyphens. The spellings are British and of their time: colour, grey, centre, to-night, to-morrow. The local words come in speech marks, letter for letter: paprika hendl, mamaliga, gotza.
Questions and answers
Is this the Dracula typing test from another site?
No test of a course or another site is copied here, so a passage you were set elsewhere may be missing. These twenty are this page's own cuts from chapters 1 and 2, typed word for word as the book prints them.
Who is Jonathan Harker in Dracula?
The English solicitor whose journal opens the novel. He travels to Transylvania to explain the purchase of a London estate to Count Dracula, keeps the journal in shorthand, and means to talk over his travels with Mina.
When was Dracula published?
In May 1897, by Archibald Constable and Company in the United Kingdom; Wikipedia's article gives 26 May as the probable day. An American edition followed in 1899 with some changes to the text, and these passages are typed from an American printing.
Is Dracula in the public domain?
In the United States, yes: a work published before 1931 is in the public domain there. Wikipedia's article adds that Stoker did not follow United States copyright law, which placed the novel in the public domain there early.
All 20 passages
By train to Bistritz, 3 and 4 May 7
Left Munich at 8:35The journal's first paragraph. The entry opens on its date and place, then a dash, and holds two clock times, each with a colon. P. M. is set with a space between its letters, and Buda-Pesth takes a hyphen.
Get Recipe for MinaSupper at Klausenburgh. Paprika hendl sits inside speech marks with the comma before the closing mark, and the note to self is in brackets, full stop and all: (Mem., get recipe for Mina.)
No Map of the CastleHarker's reading in London before he set out: four sentences, three of them hinged on a semicolon. Among the capitals: the British Museum, Moldavia, Bukovina, the Castle Dracula and the Ordnance Survey.
Paprika for BreakfastA restless night and a late train, without the paragraph's last two sentences. Mamaliga and impletata are typed inside speech marks, egg-plant takes a hyphen, and the one clock time is 7:30.
Castles on Steep HillsThe first five sentences of the train ride across the country. One long sentence swings on sometimes, a semicolon, sometimes; home-made takes a hyphen, and France and Germany are the only places named.
The Count's LetterThe letter waiting at the Golden Krone Hotel, without its signature. The greeting ends in a full stop and a dash, to-night and to-morrow keep their hyphens, and the opening speech mark is left off.
The Best Place on the CoachThe first paragraph of the entry for 4 May: the date, a dash, and a landlord who will not talk. Any one is printed as two words, and the Count is named twice.
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By coach to the Borgo Pass, 5 May 7
Robber SteakThe entry for 5 May, written at the castle, as far as the dinner Harker ate in Bistritz. Grey has its British e, robber steak sits in speech marks before a dash, and the passage stops on an exclamation mark.
The Crowd Round the Inn DoorThe coach leaves Bistritz. Fellow-passenger, kind-hearted, inn-yard and box-seat take hyphens, every one is two words, centre ends in re, and gotza sits in speech marks between two dashes.
The Mittel LandThe road out of Bistritz in fruit blossom. Four fruits follow a dash, apple, plum, pear, cherry; Mittel Land is in speech marks, and Borgo Prund, the Hospadars and the Turk bring the capitals.
God's SeatTwo paragraphs: the mountains in the afternoon sun, then a fellow passenger's cry. The first ends in a colon and a dash; Isten szek and its English, God's seat, each sit in speech marks with a dash between.
The Dogs Are Too FierceDusk on the climb, from As the evening fell to the end of its paragraph. The driver's answer comes in three pieces of speech, and after fierce the semicolon stands outside the closing mark.
Entering on the Borgo PassThe coach reaches the Pass and no carriage is waiting. Pass takes a capital each time, fear-meaning and hard-driven are hyphened, and one sentence runs from One by one to the evil eye.
A Vast Ruined CastleThe last three sentences of chapter 1. The third is the arrival: one sentence from Suddenly to the broken battlements against the moonlit sky.
At the castle, 5 to 8 May 6
The Courtyard in the GloomThe first paragraph of chapter 2: the date again, a dash, and three sentences on a courtyard Harker has not yet seen by daylight.
A Full-Blown SolicitorHarker waits alone at the great door. Three questions come one after another, Solicitor's clerk! stands as a sentence of its own, and full-blown is hyphened just before the exclamation mark.
A Table Service of GoldTwo paragraphs, the opening of 7 May, with more words than any other passage here: the one to pick for five minutes. The Count's card ends in a dash and his initial, and twenty-four and moth-eaten take hyphens.
Whole Shelves of English BooksThe Count's library. Seven subjects sit between two dashes, Red and Blue each take speech marks, and the passage closes on the Law List after one more pair of dashes.
Little Rings on the AtlasAn atlas that falls open at England. The last sentence names the three places ringed: one near London on the east side, Exeter, and Whitby on the Yorkshire coast.
A Veritable PrisonThe last three paragraphs of chapter 2, from breakfast alone on 8 May to the locked doors. Dining-room is hyphened, South takes a capital, doors is typed three times running, and the final line ends on an exclamation mark.
How this list was compiled: Twenty passages from chapters 1 and 2 of Dracula by Bram Stoker, the journal of Jonathan Harker from 3 to 8 May. The novel was first published in the United Kingdom by Archibald Constable and Company in May 1897, and an American edition followed in 1899 with some changes to the text (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula, checked 2026-10-12). The text typed is that of an American printing (New York: Grosset & Dunlap), which keeps the British spellings (colour, grey, centre) and sets the clock times as 8:35 P. M. and 6:46. It was compared word by word with Wikisource's transcription of the Modern Library printing (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dracula, checked 2026-10-12). The two differ in nine places, typed here as the first has them: P. M. in capitals, as we had arrived late, to-morrow with a hyphen in the Count's letter, a comma after I know not, speech marks round robber steak, hard-driven with a hyphen, a comma after supped, a semicolon after I had finished, and a full stop after chasm. Each passage is one unbroken run of whole sentences; three run over a paragraph break, and the groups follow the journal from the train to Bistritz, on to the coach and into the castle. These changes only were made: lines were joined, the marks for italics were removed, curly quotation marks were set straight, each long dash was set as two hyphens, and the opening quotation mark of the Count's letter was left off, because the passage stops before the letter's closing mark. 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, checked 2026-10-12). Characters divided by five give standard words (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute, checked 2026-10-12). Passage names and notes are own work. Licence: Public domain in the United States: a novel first published in 1897 (United Kingdom: Archibald Constable and Company), before 1931 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_in_the_United_States). Passage names, notes and grouping are own work.