Did you ever have to take keyboarding class in school? It was really boring and you wanted to slap your teacher when she came to your desk and held a folder over the keyboard so you couldn't look at your hands. The class would have been more fun (and I use the term fun loosely here) if you could play games while improving your super fast typing skills.
TypeRacer lets you race against other users. Keyboarding class would've been better if you were racing against your friends (and enemies). Ultimately the nerds would prevail, and then the cool kids would decide to make it uncool to be a fast typer. Life's rough.
As you type out sentences (watch out, punctuation matters!), your little car moves further along. When I tested it out, the sentences ended up being quotes from a movie, and of course, there's a link to buy the movie. No harm in trying to make a little money in exchange for providing a silly typing diversion, right?
I flew past my competitors at 83 wpm. I don't think that is very good, but user Cody came in last at 32 wpm. Cody is probably an 8-year-old, but a win is a win!
You can also do a speed test at 10 Fast Fingers. This is a no frills speed test. No cute little cars. No odd movie lines. No competitors. However, you do get a ranking among the hundreds of thousands of people who have played.
In my defense of that score, they randomly threw in one capitalized word "Indian". Out of no where I had to use the dang Shift key. My pinkie was totally unprepared to make that move.
See how fast (or slow) you type and leave your score in the comments. If you get caught by your boss, he can't get mad at you. It improves your on-the-job skills!
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