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Generic typing practice trains you on generic text. But a medical scribe, a call centre agent and a copy editor are not doing the same job with the keyboard — and practising as if they were is why speed on a practice screen so rarely survives contact with real work.
TypeCareers is 17 tracks built around specific occupations, each holding you to a speed and accuracy standard drawn from what that role actually demands. 10 sessions per track, and a verifiable certification when you finish. Free, like everything else here.
Grouped by how central typing is to the role. The standard shown is what every sub-phase of every session in that track requires — both the speed and the accuracy, together.
Document live calls into the CRM. Type while the customer talks, never after.
Notes, memos, scheduling, light document work. The keyboard of everyday office life.
Visitor logs, calendar entries, polite emails. Front desk, always composing.
Real-time written conversation with customers. Speed plus warmth.
Tickets, resolutions, follow-ups. The full lifecycle of a customer concern.
Reports, formal letters, meeting minutes, structured business writing.
Blog posts, articles, marketing copy. Write at the speed of your ideas.
Structured prompts, system instructions, iterative refinement. The new craft.
Forms, records, alphanumeric strings. Speed matters. Accuracy matters more.
Clinical notes in real time. Patient histories, vitals, encounter summaries.
Calendar, correspondence, briefings. The right hand of someone busy.
Financials, billing, codes, spreadsheets. Numbers, separators, no slowdowns.
Filings on deadline. Interview notes, breaking-news leads, long-form drafts.
Precision work. Edits, queries, corrections. The accuracy bar climbs here.
Dictation to document. Specialized vocabulary, near-perfect accuracy.
Briefs, motions, correspondence. Legal precision at working speed.
Hearings, depositions, testimony. The highest standard in the catalog.
Each track runs 10 sessions, and each session moves through 3 sub-phases. The material is drawn from the kind of text that role actually produces — call notes, clinical dictation, legal drafting, support replies — rather than generic prose dressed up with a job title.
Every sub-phase has to clear both the speed and the accuracy standard for that track. Clearing the final session issues the career certification on a public, verifiable link.
These standards sit deliberately a little below real industry minimums. TypeCareers is a learning credential — it proves you have trained against the demands of a role, not that you would pass that employer's own test on the day.
If you need a speed certified for an application, TypeTestis the graded one. If you are preparing for a specific government exam, rehearse that exam's format — competitive typing exams score differently from casual tests.
Anything above about 70 WPM is genuinely fast, and 100 WPM or more puts you in a small minority of typists. But speed alone is a weak signal — a fast typist with poor accuracy produces less usable work than a steady one, because every error costs time twice.
Typing speed is measured in words per minute, where a word is defined as five characters including spaces and punctuation rather than an actual word. Characters typed are divided by five, then divided by the minutes elapsed.
Probably not soon, though what people type is changing. Voice input and AI drafting have reduced the amount of prose typed from scratch, but they have increased the amount of editing, correcting and precise input — and all of that is still done with a keyboard.
For LDC and JSA posts the requirement is 35 WPM in English or 30 WPM in Hindi — equivalent to about 10,500 and 9,000 key depressions per hour — typed over 10 minutes. The Data Entry Operator skill test is separate and measured in key depressions rather than words.
It depends entirely on the role. Most general office jobs never state a number and are comfortable anywhere above 40 WPM, while roles where typing is the job publish explicit thresholds you have to clear in a test.
More on what employers actually test in the field guide to employer typing tests and what data entry tests score.
A track trains you for the work. These are where you measure and sharpen it.