TIMED PRACTICE · Монгол
Mongolian typing speed test
Flow like a stream. Space commits a word, backspace fixes the last one. Tab or Esc restarts.
Testing your Mongolian typing speed
Mongolian is written in the Cyrillic script. The Mongolian Cyrillic layout maps 28 characters across the keys you already have, so every motion transfers and every letter moves.
The speed test and the games draw on one bank of 88 common Mongolian words — 27 distinct characters in all, averaging 4 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.
Монгол is written in the Cyrillic script, and the practice words here use 27 distinct characters of it. None of them are where your hands expect. That is less daunting than it sounds — you are not relearning to type, you are relearning 28 key positions, and the rhythm underneath is already yours.
A glance at the keyboard costs more in Mongolian 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.
Worth knowing before you start: these 88 words use 27 distinct characters, and the effort is not spread evenly across them. Ten of them do roughly 65% 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.
- Writing system
- Cyrillic
- Keyboard layout
- Mongolian Cyrillic
- Direction
- left to right
- Mapped characters
- 28
- Practice words
- 88
- Distinct characters
- 27
- Average word
- 4 units
Characters you will press most in these Mongolian words
- а47
- х36
- э23
- и21
- у19
- н18
- г17
- о16
- р16
- д14
- л12
- м12
Counted across the 88 practice words — the characters worth getting right first.
тайван гар үндсэн эгнээг хялбар олдогCyrillic in Mongolia, traditional script in Inner Mongolia
Mongolian in Mongolia has been written in Cyrillic since the 1940s, and that is what these lessons teach. The layout is Cyrillic but it is not ЙЦУКЕН, despite being described that way almost everywhere: its top row starts ФЦУЖЭН and it differs from the Russian arrangement on nineteen of the twenty-eight keys the two have in common. It also carries ө and ү, which Mongolian uses heavily and Russian does not have.
The traditional Mongolian script — the vertical one, written in columns running top to bottom and left to right — remains in official use in Inner Mongolia and has been the subject of a revival effort in Mongolia itself. It is genuinely difficult to support on a computer: vertical text layout and extensive contextual letter shaping make it one of the harder writing systems to render correctly, and support is still uneven.
If you need the traditional script specifically, this is not the tool for it, and it is better to say so than to pretend otherwise.
Questions about typing in Mongolian
Do I need a Mongolian keyboard?
No hardware is needed. Mongolian Cyrillic 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.
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 Mongolian 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.
Which Mongolian keyboard layout do these tests use?
Mongolian Cyrillic, with 28 characters mapped across the standard key positions. The 88 practice words between them use 27 of those 28, 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 Mongolian?
88 of the most common words in Mongolian, drawn at random. They use 27 distinct characters between them and average 4 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 Mongolian hard to type?
Harder to start, not harder to reach. Every motion you already have transfers; what does not is the map, and 28 key positions have to be relearned. With a fairly compact inventory of 27 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 Mongolian: lessons and typing games.
Other languages written in Cyrillic: Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Kazakh. 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.