These are the best free words-per-minute (WPM) tests that evaluate your typing speed and provide insight into what you can do to speed up your keyboarding skills.

Each website in this list works a little differently than the others, but they all have you type sample sentences, phrases, or words, in a set period of time. The most common are one-minute tests, but there are also three-minute and five-minute WPM tests, and sometimes even more.

Try them all so you can find the one that motivates you the most to type as fast as you can during the given time period.

To make things interesting, take all these WPM tests and record your speed so you can see how they vary from one another other. Keep in mind that sometimes a higher speed can be attributed to easier sentences, lack of punctuation and symbols, fewer ads, smoother text, and how the website starts and stops its timer.