Mobile typing test — measure your thumb-typing WPM on a phone keyboardTypeRush

A typing test that a phone keyboard can actually drive

Most typing tests on the web read your keystrokes from the keydown event, and on Android that event is a dead end: GBoard and most other soft keyboards report every key as Unidentified with the legacy code 229, and hand over the actual text through beforeinput instead. A test built only on keydown therefore sits there doing nothing while you type — no characters, no timer, no score. This page listens on the input path as well, so the passage above advances from a soft keyboard exactly as it does from a laptop.

Your phone score is stored separately from your desktop score. Thumb-typing and ten-finger touch typing are different motor skills that happen to share a unit, and letting a 34 WPM phone run overwrite an 85 WPM keyboard best would make both numbers useless. The best score and the recent-results list on this page belong to this page.

What counts as a good mobile typing speed

The largest published measurement of phone typing is Palin et al., How do people type on mobile devices? (MobileHCI 2019), which collected transcription tests from 37,370 volunteers and found an average of 36.2 WPM. The same research group's earlier physical-keyboard study — Dhakal et al., Observations on Typing from 136 Million Keystrokes (CHI 2018), 168,000 participants — put the desktop average at about 52 WPM. That gap is the honest reason your score here will look worse than your score on the standard test, and it is not your technique.

Within the mobile study, how you hold the phone mattered more than anything else about the device: people typing with two thumbs averaged roughly 38 WPM against roughly 29 WPM for people poking with one index finger. If you want one change that moves your number, that is the one.

How autocorrect and swipe typing are handled

When your keyboard rewrites a word you already finished — autocorrect, or tapping a suggestion above the keys — this test ignores the rewrite. Those characters were already graded as you typed them, and letting the keyboard retroactively fix a misspelling would score a run you did not actually make. What you see graded on screen is the keys you pressed. Pasting is refused for the same reason.

Swipe or glide typing does work, but it arrives differently: your keyboard commits the whole word in one go when you lift your thumb, so the passage jumps a word at a time and the COMBO counter climbs in bursts. The words-per-minute maths is unaffected — it counts correct characters against the clock, whenever they land. Predictive suggestions you tap are treated the same way as swiped words, since both are the keyboard handing over a complete word you chose.

One practical note: the test measures what reaches the page, so turning autocorrect off in your keyboard settings usually lowers a mobile score rather than raising it. That is the point — it is the difference between how fast you type and how fast your phone guesses.