Hardest Typing Test on This Site

Type words of up to 23 letters; pick odd spellings or brackets under More options.

Type each word and press space after it. The clock starts on your first key. Spectrophotometrically speaking, the experiment was unremarkable. The microspectrophotometer needed recalibration, the dichlorodifluoromethane cylinder was mislabeled, and the carboxymethylcellulose had solidified. Nevertheless, the undergraduates characterized their results as indistinguishable from the theoretical predictions, a coincidence their instructor considered statistically improbable.
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60 seconds of typing. Words per minute is correct characters divided by five; accuracy is correct keystrokes out of all keystrokes.

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How it works

This is the hardest typing test on the site: nine passages written to slow you down. Three are built from long words, three from tricky spellings, and three from symbols, digits and capitals in odd places. A finished passage rolls into the next.

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Three kinds of hard

Long words test stamina: Chemistry Homework holds dichlorodifluoromethane, 23 letters with no place to rest. Tricky spellings test memory: Silent Letters has knight, gnawed, psalm and subpoena. Symbols test reach: Order Form and Brackets and Marks send both little fingers to Shift and the far corners of the keyboard.

How to read your score

Pick 30 seconds, 1 minute or 2 minutes. Expect a lower WPM than on the typing speed test. Compare a result here only with another result here, and watch accuracy before speed.

  • For long words typing practice, say the word in syllables as you type it: spec-tro-pho-to-met-ri-cal-ly.
  • On Capitals in Odd Places, hold Shift with the hand that is not typing the letter.

Questions and answers

Is this really the hardest typing test?

It is the hardest on this site, by design. Nobody keeps a record of the hardest test anywhere, so the page makes no wider claim. If a passage feels easy, move to the Symbols and mixed case set.

Are the long words real?

Yes. Every word in the long word and tricky spelling passages was checked against a published English word list. Otorhinolaryngologists, electroencephalographer and carboxymethylcellulose are all in it. The identifiers and order numbers in the symbol passages are made up.

Why is the longest word only 23 letters?

The typing tool accepts words of up to 30 characters, and the passages were kept to words that read naturally in a sentence. Longer curiosities, such as 45-letter place names, cannot be set as a single word here.

All 9 passages

Long words 3

  • A Very Long Meeting Office words of fifteen letters and more, up to 22. Break each one into syllables as you go.
  • Chemistry Homework Laboratory words, including one of 23 letters. Type the long ones slowly; the short ones will take care of themselves.
  • The Specialists' Corridor Medical job titles, the longest of them 23 letters. The middle of each word is where fingers get lost.

Tricky spellings 3

  • Double Letters Doubled letters in almost every word. Count the pairs: accommodate has two.
  • Odd Spellings Short enough, but hardly a word here is spelled the way it sounds.
  • Silent Letters Words with a letter you type but never say: k, g, p, b, w and more.

Symbols and mixed case 3

  • Brackets and Marks Four kinds of bracket and most of the marks on the keyboard, some of them rarely touched.
  • Capitals in Odd Places Capital letters in the middle of words, then a sentence typed as if Shift were stuck.
  • Order Form Digits, prices, dates and marks from # to &. Think of Shift before each one.

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