Ukrainian typing speed test

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.

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.

No. Words are drawn at random from the Ukrainian 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.

No, and this is the part people most often get wrong. A Ukrainian keyboard is a software setting: add the ЙЦУКЕН layout in your operating system's keyboard settings and the keys under your fingers begin producing Cyrillic characters. Keycaps with Cyrillic letters printed on them are a convenience for people who look down, and if you are learning to touch type you are learning not to.

ЙЦУКЕН, with 31 characters mapped across the standard key positions. The 61 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.

61 of the most common words in Ukrainian, drawn at random. They use 28 distinct characters between them and average 3 written units each, with the longest running to about 6. Short, frequent words are used on purpose: they are the ones your hands will meet most often outside a lesson, so the practice transfers.

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.

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.