Typing Practice
Practice Korean or English typing from home-row drills to long passages and measure speed and accuracy. Records stay in this browser; signed-in users can post to the leaderboard.
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Typing Practice: complete guide
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At a glance
- Modes
- Six modes: key position practice, words, short text, long text, timed challenge (1, 3 or 5 minutes) and masterpieces and quotes. Lines keep coming until you press Finish.
- What's measured
- Speed per minute, accuracy, number of typos, completed lines and time for the whole session.
- Start screen
- It gathers today's line, a Start now button, the bookshelf, practice cards, your records and the Hall of Fame.
- Where you type
- Right on top of the faded text. Where you made a mistake, the letter you typed shows in red. The on-screen keyboard is hidden by default.
- Book progress
- Where you stopped in each book is kept in this browser so you can continue.
- Hall of Fame
- After signing in, submit a record with 90% accuracy, 3 lines and 30 seconds or more under a display name. Only the best record per language and mode is kept.
- Korean unit
- Each consonant or vowel counts as one stroke. The syllable "gang" is 3 strokes and "eops" is 4.
- English unit
- Five characters count as one word, measured in WPM.
- Adjusted speed
- Also shows speed multiplied by accuracy.
- Start and end
- It starts when you type the first character and stops when you finish typing correctly to the end.
- Typos
- A character that's wrong at the moment it's committed is a typo. It stays counted even if you delete and fix it.
- On-screen keyboard
- Hidden by default. When turned on, it shows the next key to press and Shift on a Korean 2-set (Dubeolsik) keyboard.
- Masterpieces
- Original texts of Korean authors whose copyright has expired, plus quote translations and proverbs written by us. Sources and rights notes are shown with them.
- Records
- Your past records stay only in this browser, up to twenty. Only records you submit to the Hall of Fame are saved to the server with your display name.
How to use Typing Practice
Choose on the start screen
Start lightly with today's line, tap a book on the shelf to type a long text, or pick key position practice, words, short text, long text or the timed challenge from the practice cards. Korean results appear in keystrokes per minute and English in WPM.
Type right on top of the faded text
There's no separate input box. When you finish a line, the next one follows. On the on-screen keyboard the next key lights up in blue, and Shift is lit too for tense consonants or capital letters.
Press Finish
Type as much as you like and press Finish, and the totals up to that point are saved as your record. Long text ends by itself when you type it all the way through, and the timed challenge ends when time runs out.
Check your record and submit it to the Hall
When you finish, the most-missed characters are shown. If you're signed in and meet the conditions, you can enter a display name and submit to the Hall of Fame.
What it’s good for
You practice in sessions, not one line at a time
When you finish a line, the next one follows right away, and speed, accuracy and typos build up across the whole session. Short text keeps going endlessly, long text runs one paragraph to the end, and the timed challenge runs for 1, 3 or 5 minutes. The totals at the moment you press Finish are saved as your record.
You type right on top of the faded text
There's no separate input box. Type directly over the faded text and the letters you've typed turn dark, and where you made a mistake, the letter you actually typed stays in red. You can see right away what you pressed wrong, so it's easy to fix.
Typos are counted the moment you type
When a character is committed and differs from the target, it counts as a typo and stays counted even if you delete and fix it. Looking only at the final text would give 100% to anyone who corrects as they go. When you finish, the most-missed characters are shown, so you can go back to practicing the spots that contain them.
Pick a book from the shelf and a long text opens
Choose one of the poetry collections (Yun Dong-ju, Kim So-wol, Han Yong-un), the short-story excerpts (Hyun Jin-geon, Yi Sang, Yi Hyo-seok), the quotes collection, the Talmud wisdom collection or the Korean proverbs collection, and the whole book opens as one long text. Lines you've typed are dark and the rest are faded, and where you stopped is kept in this browser so you can continue next time. Korean literature uses original texts from authors who died more than 70 years ago, and the translated quotes and proverbs were written by us rather than copied from published books. Book covers are copyrighted, so cards made of a color and a title stand in for them.
Hall of Fame
Signed-in users can submit a record under a display name after a session ends. Only records with 90% accuracy or higher, at least 3 lines and at least 30 seconds are accepted, and only one best record per person is kept for each language and mode. The public list shows only the display name, speed and accuracy, never account details.
Worked examples
How Korean keystrokes are counted
One Korean syllable: gang (g + a + ng)3 strokesA character with a compound final consonant
One Korean syllable: eops (silent ng + eo + b + s)4 strokesHow each language is counted
Swipe the table sideways to see the rest.
| Language | Unit | One word or one stroke |
|---|---|---|
| Korean | Strokes per minute | One consonant or vowel is one stroke |
| English | WPM | Five characters make one word |
| Both | Adjusted speed | Speed times accuracy |
When the result isn’t what you expected
It still counts as a typo after I fixed it
Typos are counted at the moment a character is committed. Even if you delete and retype it correctly, the first mistake stays as a typo. This is to discourage the habit of moving on while wrong.
My Korean speed is much higher than my English speed
The units are different. Korean counts each individual key as one stroke, and English counts five characters as one word, so the two numbers can't be compared directly.
My records disappeared
You cleared your browser data or opened the page in a different browser. Records stay only in this browser, not on a server.
Key terms
- Strokes
- The number of keys pressed in one minute. It's the unit for measuring Korean typing speed.
- WPM
- Words per minute. Counted by treating five characters as one word.
- Adjusted speed
- Speed multiplied by accuracy.
- Dubeolsik (2-set)
- The standard Korean keyboard layout. The on-screen keyboard follows this layout.
- Session
- One round of practice, from starting until you press Finish. Statistics build up per session.
Typing Practice FAQ
Do my records go to a server?
Your past records stay only in this browser, up to twenty. A record is saved to the server together with your display name only when you press the button to submit it to the Hall of Fame.
Are deleted characters counted too?
Yes. If a character was wrong at the moment it was committed, it's a typo and stays counted even if you delete it. For Korean, the last character still being composed isn't counted because it's still being formed.
Why can't I submit to the Hall of Fame?
You need to be signed in, with accuracy of 90% or higher, at least 3 lines and at least 30 seconds. Speeds a person can't reach (over 1,500 keystrokes per minute in Korean, or over 250 WPM in English) aren't accepted.
Pasting doesn't work
That's on purpose. Pasted text isn't typed, so the record would lose its meaning.
Is it the same as Hancom Typing Practice speeds?
It may not be. Here, we count keystrokes per minute by the number of individual keys pressed (a double consonant is 1 stroke, and compound vowels and compound final consonants are 2 strokes). Hancom Typing Practice doesn't publish its formula, so the numbers can differ even for the same text. Compare your own records made here rather than comparing with other programs.
Can I practice the home row hand by hand?
Yes. Besides the basic home row, upper row and lower row, you can choose left-hand-only and right-hand-only stages to learn one hand at a time.
Can I practice with my own text?
For now you practice only with the prepared sentences.
Can I see my records on another device?
Your past records stay only in this browser, so you can't see them on another device. Records you've submitted to the Hall of Fame can be seen in the Hall list on any device.
Can I change the keyboard layout?
No. Just type on the keyboard you already use.