TIMED PRACTICE · Bahasa Indonesia
Indonesian typing speed test
Flow like a stream. Space commits a word, backspace fixes the last one. Tab or Esc restarts.
Testing your Indonesian typing speed
Indonesian is written in the Latin alphabet. Every practice word here stays inside it: 26 letter keys and nothing beyond them.
The speed test and the games draw on one bank of 57 common Indonesian words — 21 distinct characters in all, averaging 4.9 written units per word. A test can run for a fixed duration or a fixed number of words, with punctuation and numbers optional. Words are drawn at random each time, so no two runs are the same and there is nothing to memorise. The result reports net speed, accuracy, how steady you were across the run, and the five keys you got wrong most often.
One number is worth carrying into the first session. About 75% of the letters in these Indonesian words come from just ten characters. Get those ten genuinely automatic — not merely findable — and the rest of the layout stops being the thing standing between you and a readable sentence.
Because none of these practice words leaves a-z, the skill you build here is portable. Learn the 57-word bank cleanly and the same hand positions serve every other Latin-alphabet language on this site — the keys do not move, only the words on top of them do.
Accuracy first is not a slogan, it is the ordering that works. Typing Indonesian quickly at a 90% hit rate is slower in practice than typing it steadily at 99%, because every error costs a backspace, a re-aim and the rhythm you had.
- Writing system
- Latin
- Keyboard layout
- Latin QWERTY family
- Direction
- left to right
- Practice words
- 57
- Distinct characters
- 21
- Average word
- 4.9 units
Characters you will press most in these Indonesian words
- a63
- e23
- n22
- t17
- i16
- u16
- k15
- r14
- s13
- d12
- l11
- b10
Counted across the 57 practice words — the characters worth getting right first.
dan yang di ini itu dengan dari untuk tidak akan pada jugaA Latin alphabet and no diacritics at all
Indonesian is written with the plain 26-letter Latin alphabet and uses no diacritics whatsoever, which makes it one of the simplest languages here to type. A US keyboard is a complete Indonesian keyboard.
The spelling was standardised in 1972 in a joint reform with Malaysia, replacing a Dutch-influenced orthography: oe became u, tj became c, dj became j. Older names still carry the old spellings, which is why you meet both Soekarno and Sukarno.
Indonesian words are formed heavily by affixation — prefixes and suffixes stacking onto a root — so words grow long in a predictable way, and reduplication is grammatical: orang is person, orang-orang is people. Expect to type a good many hyphens.
Questions about typing in Indonesian
Do I need an Indonesian keyboard?
No. Nothing in these Indonesian practice words leaves the 26 letter keys already printed on your keyboard, so there is nothing to install or configure.
How long should an Indonesian 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 Indonesian 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.
How is typing speed measured here?
In words per minute, where a "word" is a fixed five characters rather than an actual word. That convention is what makes a WPM figure comparable between languages whose real words are very different lengths. The number reported is net WPM: uncorrected mistakes are subtracted, so it reflects text you actually produced correctly.
Which Indonesian keyboard layout do these tests use?
Latin QWERTY family. The 57 practice words between them use 21 of those 26, 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 keys you actually press, which for an input method are the Latin ones already printed on them.
What will I actually be typing in Indonesian?
57 of the most common words in Indonesian, drawn at random. They use 21 distinct characters between them and average 4.9 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 Indonesian hard to type?
No — Indonesian is about as gentle an introduction to touch typing as exists. No accents, no layout change, a fairly compact inventory of 21 characters across the practice bank, and every key already under your fingers. Whatever difficulty you meet is the difficulty of touch typing itself, not of this language.
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 Indonesian: lessons and typing games.
Other languages written in Latin: Irish, Italian, Javanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish. Or browse all 86 by writing system.
Further reading
- Do typing games help, and what do they measure?Games are a good diagnostic and a poor teacher. What pressure exposes that a calm test does not, and the limit of playing your way to a faster speed.
- 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.