Ask HN: In-the-background typing speed test?

1 pointpatrickwalton4 comments

Occasionally I find myself typing furiously and I'm really curious how much faster I'm typing than if I'm reading from a prompt in an online typing test. Does anyone know of a typing test that runs in the background on either PC or in browser? I imagine it wouldn't be very hard to track keystrokes and give a plot of WPM over time.

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I bet there is, but your using the wrong terms in google to find it. How do you google this?

"background typing test" "in-browser browser typing test" "real-time typing test"

The SEO is pretty strong with "typing test" so that may be my problem.

Look for a keylogger that puts timestamps alongside logged keys, and you can start from there :)

Are you thinking I could use the data from the keylogger to script my own typing test? That would work, although a bit more effort than I was hoping for atm.

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