Type the fox sentence and 29 more pangrams, each using every letter of the alphabet.
WPMType each word and press space after it. The clock starts on your first key.Thequickbrownfoxjumpsoverthelazydog.Thefiveboxingwizardsjumpquickly.Whydosixfrozenpeaksvexthejumboclimbingsquad?Justkeepyourwristsflexedandmovequicklytobagtheprize.QuickjabsattheZandXkeysprovemylefthandiswakingup.Thequickbrownfoxjumpedoverthelazydog'sback.
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A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.The February 1885 form, as The Boston Journal printed it. It is two letters shorter than the modern version and still complete, because the word the comes later in the sentence.
The five boxing wizards jump quickly.Only E, I and U repeat. Z and Q both belong to the left little finger on a QWERTY keyboard, so wizards and quickly test the same finger twice.
How quickly daft jumping zebras vex!Ends on an exclamation mark, so the last key needs Shift. A, E, I and U are the only repeats, and vex packs V and X into three letters.
Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.A jackdaw is a bird of the crow family. Sphinx and quartz put X, Q and Z into the last three words, and A, I, O and S are the only repeats.
Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.Eight plain words, and the shortest classic that sounds like something a person might say. The only letters that repeat are the vowels E, I, O and U.
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Classics: the fox and nine more, continued
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog's back.The test line sent as the first message on the Moscow to Washington hotline on 30 August 1963, there in capitals and followed by the digits 1234567890. Jumped has no S, but dog's brings it back, so this version still holds all 26.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.The best known English pangram. Its earliest known printing is in The Boston Journal in February 1885, as a favourite line of writing teachers and in the form that starts with A; the first known version starting with The is from an 1888 shorthand book. Type jumped for jumps and the S is gone, so the sentence is no longer a pangram.
Quick nymph bugs vex fjord waltz.One letter more than the alphabet: only U is typed twice. Fjord is the hard word, F then J, one index finger after the other. Wikipedia's table of short pangrams gives no source for this one, so we claim no age for it.
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow!The source Wikipedia gives for it is The Sun newspaper of 30 September 1913, under a headline about a seven-word, 29-letter sentence taking the record. Only A, O and U repeat. The comma and the exclamation mark are part of the line.
Waltz, bad nymph, for quick jigs vex.Only A and I repeat. It barely makes sense, which is the price of a short pangram, and its two commas break any rhythm you build.
New and short: under 45 letters 6
Five dogs jumped a low box; the quick lynx froze, amazed.Written for this page. Here jumped is safe, because the S comes from dogs. Type dog and the pangram breaks. A semicolon sits in the middle.
Jo quickly fixed the wavy zips on my big brown coat.Written for this page. Wavy zips is the hard stretch: W, A, V, Z and S are all left-hand letters. The only S in the sentence is the last letter of zips.
My jukebox plays crazy funk while Dave quits golf.Written for this page. Jukebox holds J, K, B and X in one word. Dave is the only capital after the first letter.
Quiet vixens jog past my frozen duck by the wall.Written for this page. No capital after the first letter and no punctuation before the full stop, so it is a clean speed line. Frozen holds the Z and duck the K.
Vexed wizards quickly jab the gnome's puffy hat.Written for this page. X, Z and Q all land in the first three words, so the left ring and little fingers start cold. The apostrophe in gnome's is part of the run.
Why do six frozen peaks vex the jumbo climbing squad?Written for this page. The only question among these pangrams, so it ends on a question mark. Jumbo and climbing both hold an M and a B.
New, medium: 45 to 59 letters 7
Exams make Raj dizzy, but quick fingers plough through every worksheet.Written for this page. Plough is the British spelling. Dizzy doubles the Z, and through and worksheet are the long words that keep your accuracy honest.
Jovial zookeepers quickly fed the six wombats a huge pumpkin.Written for this page. Zookeepers has a double O and a double E: say it to yourself as zoo, keep, ers. Wombats and pumpkin carry the W, B, M and P.
The judge fixed my quiz score when I proved a blank key was at fault.Written for this page. Quiz gives Q and Z to the left little finger with only U and I between them. The capital I in the middle needs Shift.
Just keep your wrists flexed and move quickly to bag the prize.Written for this page. The only Z is in the last word, prize, so the sentence is not a pangram until you finish it.
Lazy typing habits vex me: I drop a quick J, fudge a W and miss the comma.Written for this page. A colon, a comma and four capitals. The single letters J and W are capitals in the middle of the sentence, and the only J and the only W in it.
Quick jabs at the Z and X keys prove my left hand is waking up.Written for this page. Z and X stand alone as capitals, so each needs the right Shift while a left finger reaches to the bottom row.
Six javelins flew by the quiet crowd as Kim zipped up her great coat.Written for this page. Two capitals, Six and Kim. Zipped up asks the right little finger for P three times.
New and long: 60 letters or more 7
Before the quiz, Alex hung up my jacket, swept the drive and froze a yoghurt.Written for this page. Yoghurt is spelt the British way, with an H. Two commas and two capitals, and the Z comes twice, in quiz and froze.
Heavy boxes of jazz records went quickly up the long flight of stairs to my aunt's junk room.Written for this page. The longest line here. Aunt's needs the apostrophe, and junk room is two words.
Hot black coffee, a quiet desk, my jazz playlist and an extra wide screen give joy.Written for this page. A list with two commas. Coffee doubles the F and the E, jazz doubles the Z, and playlist is one word.
My extra keyboard was fixed quickly, so Jan typed the vital quiz for a change.Written for this page. Extra and fixed both hold an X, and quickly and quiz both hold a Q. One comma, two capitals.
Picture a dozen foxes jogging quietly by the dark lake while an owl moves in.Written for this page. No punctuation until the full stop and one capital, so it is the long line for pure speed. Jogging has a double G.
The prize marrow weighed just under six kilos, which vexed Bob's fussy judge quite badly.Written for this page. Weighed is an E before I word. Bob's adds an apostrophe, and the only K is in kilos.
Zoe quickly boxed the five jam tarts, then waved goodbye to her sleepy cousin Max.Written for this page. It opens on a capital Z: left little finger, bottom row, with the right Shift held. Goodbye is one word here.
How this list was compiled: Thirty pangrams, each proved to hold all 26 letters of the English alphabet. The ten in the "classic" group are well-known sentences, not this site's own, checked against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangram (its table of pangrams of 35 letters or fewer, with the letter counts and repeated letters it gives: 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 31, 32 and 35 letters for the eight used here; the table cites Augarde, The Oxford Guide to Word Games, 2003, The Sun, 1913, or The Boston Journal, 1885, for seven of those eight and nothing for "Quick nymph bugs vex fjord waltz.", so no age is claimed for that line) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_quick_brown_fox_jumps_over_the_lazy_dog, which gives the earliest known printing as The Boston Journal of 9 February 1885 (its own citation is dated 10 February, so the notes say February 1885) in the form "A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog", quoted there as "a favorite copy set by writing teachers for their pupils", the earliest known form starting with "The" as Linda Bronson's 1888 book Illustrative Shorthand, and the first message on the Moscow to Washington hotline on 30 August 1963 as "THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOG'S BACK 1234567890" (set here in sentence case without the digits). The 1913 date for "Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow!" is the newspaper item the Pangram article cites: The Sun, 30 September 1913, "The Pan-Alphabet Chief: Seven Word, Twenty-Nine Letter Sentence Takes the Record". The year given for a classic is the year of that earliest known printing or use, and is given only where one of the two articles states it. The twenty sentences in the "short", "medium" and "long" groups were written for this page on 2026-09-19; none of them repeats one of the five pangrams of this site's make your own typing test. Counted for each: letters (no spaces or punctuation), spare letters (those beyond 26), letters typed exactly once, repeated letters, characters and words; characters divided by five give standard words (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute), and every count quoted in a note was checked. The notes no longer repeat the letter count and the hand split of every line: those stay in "x". Left-hand and right-hand counts go by the hand that standard touch typing gives each letter on a QWERTY keyboard (left: Q W E R T A S D F G Z X C V B; right: Y U I O P H J K L N M), as described at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_typing; other layouts differ. Jackdaw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackdaw. All checked 2026-09-19. Licence: The ten classic pangrams are short, widely circulated sentences not written by us. Nine have a dated source cited at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangram or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_quick_brown_fox_jumps_over_the_lazy_dog, the oldest from 1885; the 27-letter line is listed there without a source, so no age is claimed for it. The twenty others, all notes and all counts are own work.
How it works
The quick brown fox typing test takes the sentence everyone knows and adds 29 more: 30 pangrams, each holding all 26 letters, from a 27-letter line to a 74-letter one about jazz records. Ten are well known, nine of them with a dated source, and twenty are new. Type in the box: your first key starts a clock of 30 seconds, one minute or two.
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Why the fox, and why it is not enough
Ask anyone for a typing test: the quick brown fox is the line they expect, and it is here among the ten classics. The Boston Journal printed it in February 1885 as a favourite of writing teachers. It has 35 letters, nine of them spare, and your fingers soon know it as one shape. The 29 other pangrams make you read before you type.
One wrong word breaks a pangram
Type jumped for jumps and the S is gone, so the sentence is no longer a pangram. The first Moscow to Washington hotline message, in 1963, said jumped and survived only because it ended with dog's back. Each note in the list below shows where the rare letters sit: in Just keep your wrists flexed and move quickly to bag the prize. the only Z is in the last word.
Lines come in a new order each run. Start with Classics: the fox and nine more under Practise.
As a typing practice sentence, fox and lazy dog is hard to beat for a warm-up: nine short words, one capital, one full stop.
Mind the punctuation. Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow! needs a comma and Shift for the exclamation mark, and four lines carry an apostrophe.
Questions and answers
Why is the typing test sentence the quick brown fox?
Because it puts every letter of the alphabet into nine words, so one line checks all 26 keys. It is not the shortest pangram: Quick nymph bugs vex fjord waltz. needs only 27 letters.
Is it the brown fox jumps over the lazy dog typing test or the quick brown fox?
The same sentence. Many people remember it as the brown fox typing test, but quick matters: it holds the only Q, I, C and K. The 1885 printing began with A rather than The. That line is among the classics too, two letters shorter, if you want a quick brown fox typing test in its earliest known wording.
How is my speed worked out on lines this short?
Correct characters divided by five gives standard words, divided again by the minutes on the clock. The fox sentence is 44 characters, or 8.8 standard words: finish it in ten seconds and that is about 53 WPM.