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About Monkeytype
Monkeytype is a web-based typing test with a plain, distraction-free design. It measures words per minute, accuracy, raw speed and consistency, and offers several test modes along with many settings for tailoring the test.
Practice options can bring back words you missed or typed slowly. You can take tests without signing in; an account lets you save results, track progress over time and appear on the daily leaderboard.
Strengths
- Many test modes and customization settings
- Detailed stats including WPM, accuracy and consistency
- Practice mode for missed and slow words
- Works without an account
Limitations
- Saving results and progress requires signing in
- A typing test more than a structured beginner course
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree to use in the browser.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- Monkeytype
- Platforms
- Web
- How it runs
- Web application
- Account
- Not required
- Best suited for
- Typists who want to measure and improve their speed and accuracy
- Categories
- Learning tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
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Klavaro
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KTouch
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