TIMED PRACTICE · Slovenščina
Slovenian typing speed test
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Testing your Slovenian typing speed
Slovenian uses the Latin alphabet you already have. The practice words here add 3 characters beyond a-z — č, ž, š.
Two modes, timed and word-count, plus the option to paste your own text. The words come at random from 91 common Slovenian 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.
The awkward part of Slovenian is not the alphabet, it is the 3 characters these practice words put outside it: č, ž and š. Whether your layout gives them a dedicated key or builds them from a modifier, the reach has to become a trained motion rather than a decision — they turn up in 16% of the practice words.
Speed in Slovenian comes from prediction more than from finger speed: a familiar word is one motion, an unfamiliar one is a letter at a time. That is why drilling common words works — you are not training keys so much as the shapes the language keeps repeating.
Not all keys are worth the same. Ten characters carry around 72% of everything you will type in these Slovenian drills, and the remaining 14 share what is left. That is why the course introduces its material a little at a time rather than all at once: the early characters do a disproportionate amount of the work.
- Writing system
- Latin
- Keyboard layout
- Latin QWERTY family
- Direction
- left to right
- Practice words
- 91
- Distinct characters
- 24
- Average word
- 4.4 units
Characters beyond a-z in the Slovenian practice words
- č6
- ž5
- š4
Counted across the 91 practice words. 16% of them need at least one.
in je se na da ne za so po ki pa kotThree háček letters, and the dual
Slovene uses a Latin alphabet of twenty-five letters with just three carrying diacritics: č, š and ž. It omits q, w, x and y from native words. Among the Slavic languages using Latin script, this makes it one of the least diacritically busy.
The keyboard is QWERTZ and is nearly identical to the Croatian one, minus the letters Croatian has that Slovene does not.
Slovene retains the dual number — a separate grammatical form for exactly two of something, distinct from singular and plural — which almost no other living European language does. It means more word forms to type and is a source of national affection.
Questions about typing in Slovenian
Do I need a Slovenian keyboard?
No, though you do need the right layout selected. 3 characters in the practice words here sit outside a-z, and they come up in 16% of those words — often enough that copying them from a character map will hold you back, and rare enough that people try to.
Which Slovenian keyboard layout do these tests use?
Latin QWERTY family, plus the 3 characters beyond a-z that these practice words use. The 91 practice words between them use 24 of those 29, 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 Slovenian?
91 of the most common words in Slovenian, drawn at random. They use 24 distinct characters between them and average 4.4 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 Slovenian hard to type?
Only slightly, if you already touch type. 16% of the practice words need a character outside a-z, 3 such characters appear in total, and the rest is a keyboard you already know. The difficulty is concentrated in a handful of positions rather than spread across the layout.
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.
Why is my Slovenian 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 Slovenian typing test the same every time?
No. Words are drawn at random from the Slovenian 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.
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 Slovenian: lessons and typing games.
Other languages written in Latin: Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Uzbek. Or browse all 86 by writing system.
Further reading
- Typing accuracyWhat an accuracy percentage really means, why an error costs more than one keystroke, and how to fix accuracy without simply slowing down forever.
- 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.