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Typing preflight
Three-step flight deck: full key map, latency sample, and debounce check—then a boarding pass before your timed test.
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Bench your setup, then benchmark
Type Faster is a typing coach first. This page is the pre-flight strip: confirm keys and input feel, then use timed tests, drills, keyboard breaks, and progress—without treating the site as a clone of every keyboard gadget directory.
Bench before you benchmark
Type Faster is built around honest timed tests and progress. Key map, latency, polling, debounce, and rollover checks keep hardware honest; the WPM calculator and context tools turn numbers into the same math and bands we use after a run—then you jump into a real test when you want proof.
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Steno lessons
Six-unit machine-steno ladder with Discover → Revise → Drill chord tutorials, then brief-form typing and readback.
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Steno practice
30s and 60s TFBF and chord timed benchmarks—Steno WPM scoring with the clock starting on your first keystroke.
Open practice4 Live
Full key map
Walk every physical key once. This is the sanity check we recommend before trusting a WPM score or blaming “slow fingers.”
Open key map5 Live
Latency sample
Sample keydown-to-paint delay in this browser. Use it to compare Bluetooth vs wired or busy vs idle tabs—not as a lab USB measurement.
Measure latency6 Live
Polling rate primer
Tap steadily to sample gaps between key events in this browser—honest Hz context for typists, not a certified USB descriptor readout.
Sample reporting cadence7 Live
Debounce & chatter
Tap one key lightly to spot rapid double keydowns in this browser—bounce context for typists, not firmware debounce milliseconds.
Check for bounce8 Live
WPM calculator
Scratch-pad math from characters and seconds, plus KPH ↔ WPM conversion—same five-character word rule as timed tests here.
Calculate WPM9 Live
WPM in context
Turn a gross WPM into the same approximate percentile band we show after timed tests—plain language for jobs and practice, not leaderboard hype.
See bands10 Live
Rollover check
Hold chord presets (WASD, arrows) and see blocked keys or phantom inputs—ghosting vs n-key rollover in your browser.
Test rollover
Between tests
Need a calm reset? Try keyboard breaks
Eighteen calm mini-games—no WPM, no leaderboard. Sign in to browse keyboard breaks, then return to a timed run when you are ready.
After the bench, run a real score: Start a 1-minute typing test, take a keyboard break, or browse typing guides.