Your typing speed, live.

Compact or detailed

Compact is a small capsule: the number, the values right next to it, and a graph at the end. Detailed names every value and gives the graph a row of its own. Pick the size, which numbers you see and whether you want the graph, then put it in any corner of any screen.

Always in the corner, never in the way

The counter floats above every app and every desktop, full screen included. Clicks go straight through it, and it fades out while your pointer is over it, so you can always see what's underneath.

Point at the counter to see it step aside.

The color tells you how it's going

WPM Tracker compares your speed with your own average over the last 7 days. Blue when you're slower, mint around your average, amber and pink when you're faster. You know how it's going without reading the number.

It catches fire when you're flying

Type faster than your own 7-day average and the counter plays along. Ten words in at 10% above it, you're on a roll, with sparks off every word and a count of the run. Twenty-five words at 25% above, and it's on fire.

It only ever measures you against your own normal, so a 45 wpm typist catches fire as often as a 120 wpm one. A pause ends the run, and there's no streak to lose. One switch turns it all off.

Press a key to play one. Or try it yourself at the top: type slowly for a line, then speed up without stopping.

The numbers typing tests use

wpm

The characters you kept, five to a word, per minute of typing.

raw

Every character you typed, the deleted ones too.

burst

The speed of your last word, from the space before it to the space after it.

avg

Your wpm over the last 7 days.

acc

How much of what you typed you kept.

Point at a number to find it in the counter.

Your history, one click away

Click the number in the menu bar to see your speed over the last few minutes, hours and days, with how long you typed and how many words.