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Georgian typing speed test
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Testing your Georgian typing speed
Georgian is written in its own script. The Georgian QWERTY layout maps 31 characters across the keys you already have, so every motion transfers and every letter moves.
Everyone learning Georgian passes through the same stage: typing by translation. You know the Georgian letter you want, you think of the Latin key it lives on, and then you press it — three steps where fluent typing has one. The middle step is what practice removes, and it goes faster if you refuse to look at the keyboard while it is going.
The speed test and the games draw on one bank of 45 common Georgian words — 28 distinct characters in all, averaging 4.6 written units per word. Nothing about the test is fixed except the fairness of it: the same bank, sampled fresh, so a result today is comparable with a result next month. Duration, word count, punctuation and digits are all yours to set.
A glance at the keyboard costs more in Georgian than in a language you already type, because it rehearses exactly the habit you are trying to replace: reading the keys instead of remembering them. Covering the keyboard for the first week is unpleasant advice that works.
Georgian's 45-word bank draws on 28 characters, and they are wildly unequal in how often they turn up — the commonest is about 19% of all letters typed, the rarest a fraction of one. The lessons follow that gradient deliberately, which is why the home row comes first and the awkward reaches come last.
- Writing system
- Georgian
- Keyboard layout
- Georgian QWERTY
- Direction
- left to right
- Mapped characters
- 31
- Practice words
- 45
- Distinct characters
- 28
- Average word
- 4.6 units
Characters you will press most in these Georgian words
- ა38
- ი31
- ე15
- ლ13
- მ11
- რ11
- ხ10
- ვ9
- ო7
- ს7
- დ6
- ც5
Counted across the 45 practice words — the characters worth getting right first.
მშვიდი ხელები პოულობენ სახლის რიგს პრაქტიკითAn alphabet with no capital letters
Mkhedruli, the modern Georgian script, has no case distinction. There are no capital letters, so no shift key for letters, no capitalisation of names or sentence beginnings, and none of the case-conversion problems that occupy so much software elsewhere.
It has 33 letters, each representing exactly one sound, in a writing system that has been in continuous use for around 1,600 years and is unrelated to any other script. Two earlier Georgian alphabets, Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri, survive in ecclesiastical use; together the three are on the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage list.
The layout used here maps Georgian letters onto QWERTY positions phonetically, which is the common arrangement.
Questions about typing in Georgian
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 Georgian 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.
Why does my score change so much between attempts?
Partly the draw and partly you. No two runs of the Georgian typing test use the same words — they are sampled fresh from the bank each time, so one attempt can hand you a friendlier set than the next — and concentration varies more than most people credit. Take three and look at the middle one rather than the best.
Do I need a Georgian keyboard?
No hardware is needed. Georgian QWERTY is an operating-system layout, available on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS without installing anything. The one thing worth setting up is a quick way to switch between it and your usual layout, because you will be doing that constantly.
Which Georgian keyboard layout do these tests use?
Georgian QWERTY, with 31 characters mapped across the standard key positions. The 45 practice words between them use 28 of those 31, so the drills reach very nearly all of the layout rather than a comfortable corner. 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 Georgian?
45 of the most common words in Georgian, drawn at random. They use 28 distinct characters between them and average 4.6 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 Georgian 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 28 characters across the practice bank, most people are past the worst of it inside two weeks of short daily sessions.
Do I need an account, and is it free?
No account, no payment, no trial. Progress is stored in this browser, which is enough until you want it on a second device or on a leaderboard — that is the only thing an account buys, and it is optional.
Also in Georgian: lessons and typing games.
Other languages that move the alphabet onto the same keys: Greek, Hebrew, Korean, Tigrinya, Amharic, Armenian. Or browse all 86 by writing system.
Further reading
- Typing Georgian and Armenian: two alphabets you can nearly guessTwo neighbouring scripts, each unrelated to anything around it, and two keyboards arranged by sound. How far that gets you, measured key by key.
- Keyboard layoutsQWERTY, Dvorak, Colemak, AZERTY, QWERTZ and the non-Latin layouts — what each one changes, and whether switching is worth it.
- 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.