TIMED PRACTICE · Azərbaycan
Azerbaijani typing speed test
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Testing your Azerbaijani typing speed
Azerbaijani uses the Latin alphabet you already have. The practice words here add 7 characters beyond a-z — ə, ş, ü, ç, ı and more.
Azerbaijani (Azərbaycan) is a Latin-script language with a tail. Twenty-six keys carry most of it, and then 63% of the practice words here reach past them for one of the 7 characters outside a-z: ə, ş, ü, ç, ı, ö and ğ. Where those live depends on the layout you have selected; the guide shows a Latin QWERTY family arrangement.
The test is configurable rather than fixed — 15 seconds to 10 minutes, or a set number of words, or your own pasted text. The speed test and the games draw on one bank of 93 common Azerbaijani words — 29 distinct characters in all, averaging 4.3 written units per word. Every run samples it again. The summary separates raw speed from net speed, so you can see exactly what your errors cost you.
Of the 29 characters these 93 words use, one alone accounts for roughly 11%. Frequencies like that are why touch typing can be learned at all — you are not memorising 29 equally important characters, you are automating a handful and filling in the rest over time.
The temptation in Azerbaijani is to skip the accents while drilling and add them later. It does not work — the accent is part of the motion, and a hand that has practised the word without it has practised a different word. Drill them from the start, awkward as the first week is.
- Writing system
- Latin
- Keyboard layout
- Latin QWERTY family
- Direction
- left to right
- Practice words
- 93
- Distinct characters
- 29
- Average word
- 4.3 units
Characters beyond a-z in the Azerbaijani practice words
- ə46
- ş14
- ü10
- ç7
- ı7
- ö6
- ğ1
Counted across the 93 practice words. 63% of them need at least one.
və bir bu o ki da üçün ilə çox az yaxşı böyükSchwa, and a third alphabet in a century
Azerbaijani has changed script three times in about a hundred years: Arabic until the 1920s, Latin briefly, Cyrillic under Soviet rule, and Latin again since 1991. The current alphabet is Turkish-derived with additions.
The most distinctive of those is ə, the schwa, which is a full letter and one of the most frequent in the language. It is unusual — most languages that need the sound spell it with an existing vowel — and it is the letter most likely to be missing from a keyboard that claims Azerbaijani support.
The layout also carries ç, ğ, ı, İ, ö, ş and ü, largely shared with Turkish, so a Turkish typist finds Azerbaijani familiar apart from the schwa.
Questions about typing in Azerbaijani
Do I need an Azerbaijani keyboard?
No. The characters beyond a-z in these practice words — ə, ş, ü, ç, ı and ö and others — are reachable on the keyboard you already own once the right layout is selected in your operating system's settings. Some layouts give them their own keys, others build them from a modifier; either way the hardware is unchanged.
Which Azerbaijani keyboard layout do these tests use?
Latin QWERTY family, plus the 7 characters beyond a-z that these practice words use. The 93 practice words between them use 29 of those 33, so 4 characters never come up in the practice text — these are the commonest words rather than an even sweep of the layout. The keyboard guide below the typing area shows the keys you actually press, which for an input method are the Latin ones already printed on them.
What will I actually be typing in Azerbaijani?
93 of the most common words in Azerbaijani, drawn at random. They use 29 distinct characters between them and average 4.3 written units each, with the longest running to about 8. Short, frequent words are used on purpose: they are the ones your hands will meet most often outside a lesson, so the practice transfers.
Is the Azerbaijani typing test the same every time?
No. Words are drawn at random from the Azerbaijani bank on every run, so there is nothing to memorise and a second attempt is a fresh test rather than a rehearsal. You can fix the duration or the word count, turn punctuation and numbers on, or paste your own text.
What is the difference between raw and net WPM?
Raw counts everything you typed; net subtracts what you got wrong and left wrong. A large gap between the two is the most useful signal on the results screen — it means the speed is there and the accuracy is not, which is a different problem from simply being slow, and a faster one to fix.
Does accuracy matter more than speed?
For a score, they are the same measurement — net WPM already penalises errors. For improving, accuracy matters more, because the fastest route to a higher number is almost always removing mistakes rather than moving your fingers faster.
Is Azerbaijani hard to type?
Only slightly, if you already touch type. 63% of the practice words need a character outside a-z, 7 such characters appear in total, and the rest is a keyboard you already know. The difficulty is concentrated in a handful of positions rather than spread across the layout.
Do I need an account, and is it free?
No, and it is free either way. Every lesson, drill, test and game works signed out, with your progress kept in this browser. An account adds three things only: your progress and settings follow you to another device, your streak survives clearing your browser data, and you can appear on the leaderboards under a name you choose.
Also in Azerbaijani: lessons and typing games.
Other languages written in Latin: Basque, Catalan, Cebuano, Croatian, Czech, Danish. Or browse all 86 by writing system.
Further reading
- Adding a keyboard layoutThe step before any of this works: turning on the layout in your operating system, switching to it, and what to do about the wrong letters on your keycaps.
- Which finger types which keyThe standard finger assignment for every key on a QWERTY keyboard, why the index fingers carry two columns each, and the keys people get wrong.
- The top rowQ through P sit one row up from home, and every key there is a reach and a return. Which fingers do what, and why E and R feel different.