10-key typing test: number pad speed and accuracy
Type each number on your number pad and press Enter. The timer starts with your first key, and your score is keystrokes per hour on entries typed exactly right.
No download, no account: it runs in your browser, Chromebooks included.
Only digits and the decimal point are accepted. Enter moves to the next number, right or wrong.
Your run
Up to 16 letters or numbers. It travels only inside the link, and nothing is stored by us.
What a 10-key test measures
Data-entry and accounting jobs often test how fast and how accurately you type numbers on the number pad, the block of keys to the right of most keyboards. Speed is given in keystrokes per hour (KPH): every digit, decimal point and Enter counts as one keystroke.
Here, net KPH counts only the keystrokes of entries typed exactly right, so a fast run full of mistakes does not score well. Gross speed, which counts every keystroke you sent, is shown beside it. An entry of 4,829 is five keystrokes with its Enter; typing 120 such entries right in 3 minutes is 600 keystrokes, or 12,000 KPH.
How to type numbers faster
Turn Num Lock on and rest your right hand on the middle row: index finger on 4, middle finger on 5 (most pads have a small bump on it), ring finger on 6. The thumb takes 0, the little finger takes Enter, and the decimal point goes to the ring finger. Keep your eyes on the numbers, not the pad.
Accuracy first: employers and their tests set their own requirements, and a wrong entry costs more than a slow one. No pass mark is given here, and this test is practice, not a certificate.
No number pad?
On a laptop without one, the number row above the letters works, but it is slower and your scores will not compare with a number-pad run. A small USB number pad costs little if you practice often. For letters and words, take the typing test; for keys alone, the keyboard speed test.