Settings
Your theme and typing preferences. Changes apply straight away. Signed in, they follow you to every device; otherwise they stay in this browser.
Typing test
What the home test gives you. Changing these on the test bar changes them here too.
Language
Test
Custom is your own text.
Length by
A timed test, or a set number of words with a clock that counts up.
Time
Only the standard lengths count toward leaderboards and personal bests.
Behaviour
How strict typing is, and when a test fails.
Mistakes and keys
Stop on error
Letter: the caret waits on a wrong letter. Word: you can't finish a word with a mistake in it.
Confidence mode
On: Backspace can't reach earlier words. Max: no Backspace at all.
Lazy mode
Typing test only. Accented letters are written without their accents (é is e, ß is ss). Takes effect from the next test.
Quick restart
The key that starts the test or lesson over.
Fail the test
Difficulty
Typing test only. Expert: finishing a word with a mistake in it fails the test. Master: any wrong key fails it. A failed test isn't saved.
Minimum speed
Typing test only. The test fails if your speed drops below this, from 2 seconds in.
Minimum accuracy
Typing test only. The test fails if your accuracy drops below this, from 2 seconds in.
Text & caret
How the words and the caret look.
Preview
Text
Font
Size
Text width
How far across a large screen the typing test's text runs. Phones always use the full width.
Effects
Show mistakes as
What a wrong letter shows while you type.
Blind mode
Mistakes are not highlighted while you type. They still count.
Tape mode
One line that slides along under a still caret, instead of lines that scroll up.
Flip colours
Letters you've typed go dim and the ones to come are bright.
Colourful
Letters you've typed take the theme's accent colour.
Caret
Style
Smooth caret
Glides between letters instead of jumping.
Pace caret
A faint second caret that types at a steady speed for you to race.
While typing
What's on screen during a test.
Timer
Lessons have no time limit, so there the bar shows how much you've typed.
Live WPM
Live accuracy
Focus mode
The menu and controls fade out once you start typing. Move the mouse to bring them back.
Keyboard
Typing test only. Your keyboard under the words, lighting the next key or each key you press.
Caps Lock warning
Keyboard
The layout your tests, lessons and keyboard pictures use.
Layout
Keyboard shape
Auto: ANSI, usual for QWERTY (US). Press the key beside left Shift, if you have one, and it switches to ISO.
Detect my layout
Sets the layout from the keys you type. Turn it off to keep the layout you chose.
Layout emulation
Practise a layout without changing your computer's settings. Each key types what the chosen layout has in its place. Shortcuts, Space, Enter and Backspace work as usual. Needs a physical keyboard.
Sound
Key sound
Click one to hear it.
Error sound
A low note when you hit a wrong key.
Theme
Recolours the whole site, not just the typing area.