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Bulgarian typing speed test
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Testing your Bulgarian typing speed
Bulgarian is written in the Cyrillic script. The Bulgarian phonetic layout maps 31 characters across the keys you already have, so every motion transfers and every letter moves.
Worth knowing before you start: these 76 words use 26 distinct characters, and the effort is not spread evenly across them. Ten of them do roughly 68% of the work, so the first week of practice buys far more than the tenth will. That is the normal shape of it, not a sign of a plateau.
Bulgarian uses the Cyrillic alphabet, so a Bulgarian phonetic keyboard puts a different letter under every finger you already know. 31 keys are remapped, and that is the entire difficulty: the motions are the ones you have, aimed at different letters.
Two modes, timed and word-count, plus the option to paste your own text. The words come at random from 76 common Bulgarian words. What you get back is not just a number: net and raw WPM, accuracy, consistency across the run, and the keys you got wrong most often.
Expect a strange few days in Bulgarian where you are at once a competent typist and a beginner. Everything your hands know still works; everything your memory knows points at the wrong letters. It resolves in days rather than months, provided the practice is frequent rather than long.
- Writing system
- Cyrillic
- Keyboard layout
- Bulgarian phonetic
- Direction
- left to right
- Mapped characters
- 31
- Practice words
- 76
- Distinct characters
- 26
- Average word
- 4 units
Characters you will press most in these Bulgarian words
- а40
- о30
- е29
- т20
- к18
- и17
- н15
- в14
- р14
- с13
- л12
- д11
Counted across the 76 practice words — the characters worth getting right first.
спокойните ръце намират основния ред без да гледатThe traditional layout, and the phonetic one that won anyway
Bulgaria has an official standard layout — sometimes called BDS, arranged for Bulgarian letter frequency — and a phonetic layout that maps Cyrillic onto QWERTY positions by sound. Unusually, the phonetic one is not merely a learner's shortcut here: it is in very wide everyday use, and a version of it was itself standardised.
This makes Bulgarian one of the few places where choosing the phonetic layout is a defensible long-term decision rather than a corner cut. The traditional layout is faster once learned and is what professional typists use; the phonetic layout is what a great many ordinary Bulgarians actually type on.
These lessons use the phonetic arrangement, which is the one most people encounter first.
Questions about typing in Bulgarian
Do I need a Bulgarian keyboard?
No. Switching your operating system to the Bulgarian phonetic layout remaps the keyboard you already own; nothing physical changes. Stickers and printed keycaps exist, and they are worth skipping — they reward glancing down, which is the habit this whole exercise is trying to remove.
Which Bulgarian keyboard layout do these tests use?
Bulgarian phonetic, with 31 characters mapped across the standard key positions. The 76 practice words between them use 26 of those 31, so 5 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 physical key and the character it produces together, so you are never reading a layout diagram in one window while typing in another.
What will I actually be typing in Bulgarian?
76 of the most common words in Bulgarian, drawn at random. They use 26 distinct characters between them and average 4 written units each, with the longest running to about 9. 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 Bulgarian hard to type?
Harder to start, not harder to reach. Every motion you already have transfers; what does not is the map, and 31 key positions have to be relearned. With a fairly compact inventory of 26 characters across the practice bank, most people are past the worst of it inside two weeks of short daily sessions.
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.
How long should a Bulgarian typing test be?
Longer than you would like. A 15-second test measures your sprint and flatters you; over two minutes your sustainable speed shows up, along with the fact that concentration runs out. If you want one number that describes you rather than your best moment, take the longer one.
Do I need an account, and is it free?
Neither. There is no paid tier and no required sign-in — the 76 Bulgarian practice words, the speed test and all three games are the whole product, available immediately. Signing in is worth it only if you practise on more than one device.
Also in Bulgarian: lessons and typing games.
Other languages written in Cyrillic: Kazakh, Macedonian, Mongolian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian. Or browse all 86 by writing system.
Further reading
- Typing Cyrillic: one script, eight keyboardsWhy the standard Russian layout ignores the letters on your keycaps, when a phonetic layout is defensible, and how far the eight Cyrillic layouts differ.
- Typing codeCode is symbol-dense, punctuation-heavy and hard on the little fingers. Why fast prose typists are often mediocre code typists, and what to drill.
- Typing in a second scriptIf you already touch type, your hands transfer completely and your recall does not. What that gap feels like, why it closes, and how to shorten it.