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Typing test without punctuation

Plain lowercase sentences with nothing to shift for. Start typing whenever you like — the clock waits for your first key.

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Start typing. The clock starts on your first key.

the repair shop on the corner is barely wider than its door yet it seems to hold every broken thing in the neighbourhood radios with missing knobs kettles that no longer heat a sewing machine a stack of phones with cracked screens all wait their turn on the crowded shelves the owner works under

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What is left when the punctuation goes

This typing test without punctuation starts from the same original sentences our prose tests use. Two things are then taken away: every capital is lowercased, and every comma, period, question mark and quotation mark is removed, with hyphenated words split into two. What you type is letters and single spaces, nothing else.

That strips out the keys that ask the most of your hands. You never hold Shift, and your right pinky never has to leave home for the far edge of the board. The result is a reading of raw letter speed: how quickly your fingers find each letter and how cleanly they move from one word into the next.

Because the words still arrive in sentence order, the text keeps the feel of written English. Short joining words sit between longer ones, and the letter pairs are the ones you meet in real writing rather than the odd combinations a shuffled word list can throw up.

Measure your own punctuation tax

Capitals and punctuation slow nearly everyone down a little, but how much is personal. To find your figure, take this test at three minutes, then take the three-minute prose test straight afterward, on the same keyboard and in the same chair. Subtract the second net WPM from the first. That difference is what punctuation costs you today.

A narrow gap says your Shift and punctuation habits are already sound. A wide one points to where practice will pay: capitals typed with the wrong Shift key, a small stall before every comma, or a glance down to find the semicolon or the quotation mark. Repeat the pair every week or two and see whether the gap closes.

Always run the two tests in one sitting. Speed drifts with sleep, warm-up and even the desk height, and comparing results from different days mixes all of that into a number that should only reflect punctuation.

A fair test before you have learned Shift

If you are new to touch typing, capitals tend to be the last skill to settle. Proper Shift use means holding the key with the little finger of the hand that is not typing the letter, which is a two-handed coordination task in its own right. Until it feels natural, a test full of capitals mostly measures how long you hesitate at the start of each sentence.

This page lets you track the part you have already learned without that noise. The on-screen keyboard lights the finger that owns the next key, so you can keep your eyes on the text and still check your fingering at a glance. Once capitals come easily, move on to the prose test and keep this one as a baseline.

Rhythm and the shape of words

With no punctuation, the only break built into the text is the space between words. That makes it a clean place to practice an even pace: aim to type each word at one steady speed rather than racing the easy letters and stalling on the awkward ones. After the run, the consistency score rates how evenly your speed held from second to second; a perfectly steady run would score 100.

With practice, common words stop feeling like strings of letters and start feeling like single movements your fingers already know. Look at the speed graph after each run. The dips usually line up with long or unfamiliar words, and those are the ones worth typing a few times on their own before your next attempt.

Questions

Is a typing test without punctuation easier?
For most people, yes. Taking out capitals and punctuation removes the keys that need Shift or a long pinky reach, and those are slower for nearly everyone. Expect your score here to be higher than on a prose test, and read it as a measure of letter speed rather than a replacement for a full test.
Why is all the text lowercase?
Lowercase keeps Shift out of the test entirely, so the result reflects only how fast and accurately you type letters. It also makes this page useful before you have learned to type capitals properly, since a hesitation at every sentence start would otherwise drag your number down.
Can I compare this score with a normal typing test?
Yes, as long as you compare like with like. Take this test and a prose test at the same length, one straight after the other, on the same keyboard. The gap between the two net WPM results shows how much capitals and punctuation slow you down.
Are the words random?
No. The text comes from original sentences written for WowTyping, lowercased and with the punctuation taken out, so the word order still reads as English. You get the natural mix of short and long words and the letter pairs of real writing, not a list shuffled at random.
Which length should I choose?
Thirty seconds is good for a quick burst or a warm-up. One minute is the everyday reading most people compare. Three minutes shows whether your pace holds once the easy start wears off, and it is the length to use when you measure the gap against the three-minute prose test.