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Kurdish (Sorani) typing speed test
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Testing your Kurdish (Sorani) typing speed
Kurdish (Sorani) is written in the Arabic script, whose marks combine with base letters into single written units — so one keystroke is not one character on screen. It also runs right to left.
Typing Kurdish (Sorani) is not a matter of one key, one character. The Arabic script combines consonants, vowel signs and modifiers into single written clusters, which means you compose a syllable and watch it assemble itself as you go. The Kurdish Sorani layout maps 27 characters across the standard key positions to make that composing order predictable.
A frequency count of the bank explains why early progress feels fast and later progress does not. The top ten characters cover about 68% of everything these Kurdish (Sorani) words contain; past that you are learning characters that turn up once in a paragraph, which takes as long to automate and pays back far less often.
Two modes, timed and word-count, plus the option to paste your own text. The words come at random from 21 common Kurdish (Sorani) 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.
Watch what you have written rather than what you are pressing. In Kurdish (Sorani) a cluster only resolves once the last mark is in, so the screen is the only honest feedback on whether the keystroke order was right. Typists who learn to read their own output catch a mistake on the next character rather than at the end of the line.
- Writing system
- Arabic
- Keyboard layout
- Kurdish Sorani
- Direction
- right to left
- Mapped characters
- 27
- Practice words
- 21
- Distinct characters
- 22
- Average word
- 3.4 units
Characters that come up most in these Kurdish (Sorani) words
- ا11
- و9
- ە6
- ک5
- ئ3
- ب3
- د3
- ر3
- ڵ3
- م3
- ن3
- ت2
Counted across the 21 practice words — the ones worth recognising first.
A short bank. Kurdish (Sorani) has 21 practice words here, which is few enough that a long run will repeat them. That is a gap rather than a decision: adding words to a tool whose whole purpose is that people practise typing them needs certainty about Kurdish (Sorani) spelling, and a bank with a misspelling in it teaches the misspelling. Corrections are genuinely welcome.
دەستی ئارام بە ئاسانی ڕیزی سەرەکی دەدۆزێتەوەTwo scripts for one language
Kurdish is written in two different alphabets depending on where it is spoken. Sorani, used in Iraq and Iran and taught here, is written in an Arabic-derived script. Kurmanji, used in Turkey and Syria, is written in a Latin alphabet based on Turkish.
The two are far enough apart in dialect and script that a Sorani reader and a Kurmanji reader may struggle with each other's written text despite sharing a language. The Sorani script differs from Arabic in marking vowels explicitly, which Arabic does not — a deliberate departure that makes Kurdish easier to read for learners.
The layout here is a Sorani arrangement. Anyone needing Kurmanji wants a Turkish or Turkish-derived Latin keyboard instead.
Questions about typing in Kurdish (Sorani)
Do I need a Kurdish (Sorani) keyboard?
No. A Kurdish (Sorani) keyboard is a software setting: add the Kurdish Sorani layout in your operating system's keyboard settings and your existing keys begin producing Arabic characters, with the marks composing as you type them in order.
Which Kurdish (Sorani) keyboard layout do these tests use?
Kurdish Sorani, with 27 characters mapped across the standard key positions. Kurdish (Sorani) runs right to left, which both the practice text and the cursor respect. The 21 practice words between them use 22 distinct characters. 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 Kurdish (Sorani)?
21 of the most common words in Kurdish (Sorani), drawn at random. They use 22 distinct characters between them and average 3.4 written units each, with the longest running to about 5. 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 Kurdish (Sorani) hard to type?
Harder than a one-key-one-letter language, and for a specific reason rather than a vague one: marks combine, so a written unit takes several presses in a fixed order. The bank here averages 3.4 units per word with a fairly compact inventory of 22 characters across the practice bank. The keystroke count is higher than the visible length suggests, which is what makes early progress feel slower than it is.
Why is my Kurdish (Sorani) speed lower than my English speed?
Because you are doing two things at once: finding the key and recalling what it writes. Speed in a script you have typed for years is one motion; speed in a new one is a lookup followed by a motion. The lookup is what disappears with practice, and when it does the gap closes faster than most people expect.
Is the Kurdish (Sorani) typing test the same every time?
No. Words are drawn at random from the Kurdish (Sorani) 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.
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 Kurdish (Sorani): lessons and typing games.
Other languages written in Arabic: Pashto, Persian (Farsi), Urdu, Arabic.
Other languages whose letters combine as you type: Lao, Malayalam. Or browse all 86 by writing system.
Further reading
- Typing the Arabic script: one alphabet, five keyboardsOne script, five layouts. What Persian, Urdu, Pashto and Kurdish each change, why a letter changes shape after you type it, and which of it transfers.
- 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.
- What touch typing isTouch typing means typing without looking, using all ten fingers from a fixed home position. What it is, why it works, and what it is not.