Arabic typing test.
Sixty seconds on real Arabic words, with live WPM and accuracy as you type. Works with a real Arabic keyboard or straight from your Latin keyboard through the Arabic 101 layout. You type base letters only; the harakat fill in for you.
Free, no signup. Your best score stays in your browser.
Speed and accuracy, measured on real words.
The stream draws from our corpus of about 900 everyday Arabic words — the vocabulary you'd actually message someone, not random letter soup. The clock starts on your first keystroke and stops at zero. At the end you get WPM (words per minute) and accuracy (correct keystrokes as a share of all keystrokes), plus your correct and missed word counts and your best streak of perfect words in a row.
The cursor waits on each letter until you hit the right key, so you can't fake speed by mashing. Every wrong press costs a beat and a point of accuracy. Stuck on a letter you can't find? Space skips the word — it counts against you, but the clock stops for no one. Run it at 30, 60, or 120 seconds; 60 is the standard if you want scores you can compare.
How WPM is calculated for Arabic.
“Words per minute” doesn't count actual words; a “word” is standardized to five characters, so nobody gets punished for typing long ones. This test uses the same convention as the big English typing tests:
- A character is a base letter you actually type.Arabic words carry harakat (بَيْت has marks on every letter), but nobody types them in everyday writing, and neither do you here. You type ب ي ت; the marks fill in automatically. They're shown for reading, never counted for scoring.
- Each completed word adds one separator character: the space you'd have typed in running text. That keeps Arabic scores comparable with standard tests, where spaces count.
- Only correct keystrokes count toward WPM.Wrong presses don't advance the cursor; they show up in your accuracy instead. Hamza forms are strict — ا, أ, إ and آ are four different letters, and you have to hit the right one.
What's a good Arabic typing speed?
Lower than you'd guess from English numbers. English averages hover around 40 WPM because nearly everyone types English daily; far fewer people ever build that mileage in Arabic, and the layout is full of things English habits don't transfer to: the hamza forms, ة, the whole Shift layer. Honest ranges:
WPM here means correct characters ÷ 5 ÷ minutes, on everyday vocabulary. Numbers from tests with different rules aren't directly comparable.
How to improve your Arabic WPM.
Accuracy first, speed second.
Speed is a byproduct of not making mistakes. If your accuracy is under 90%, slow down until it isn't. A wrong keystroke costs far more time than a careful one.
Retaking the test isn't practice.
The fastest way up is deliberate practice with feedback on every letter. Our Arabic typing practice walks you through the same corpus word by word, with audio and the key for each letter highlighted, and it puts the words you fumble back in front of you.
Learn where the letters live.
Ten minutes with the online Arabic keyboard, just reading the Arabic 101 layout, spares you a lot of mid-word hunting later. Start with the Shift layer — that's where أ إ آ hide.
Short sessions, daily.
Ten focused minutes a day beats an hour on Sunday. Muscle memory is built by frequency, not volume. Retest weekly and watch the number climb.
Questions people ask.
How is WPM calculated in this Arabic typing test?
The standard way: correct characters ÷ 5 ÷ minutes. Every five correct characters count as one "word", so long words and short words weigh what they should. Each Arabic base letter you type counts as one character, and each fully completed word adds one more for the word separator. Only correct keystrokes count toward WPM — errors lower your accuracy instead.
Do I have to type the harakat (diacritics)?
No. The test shows fully diacritized words, but you only type the base letters — the marks fill in automatically as you go, exactly like the practice tool on this site. That mirrors real typing: everyday Arabic is written without diacritics. If your Arabic keyboard sends harakat anyway, they're accepted and skipped, never counted against you. Hamza forms are the one strict part: ا, أ, إ and آ are different letters and the test expects the right one.
What is a good Arabic typing speed?
Arabic averages run lower than English. Around 20–30 WPM is a normal casual pace. 40+ WPM counts as proficient, and 60+ WPM is genuinely fast — the kind of speed you see from people who type Arabic professionally. If you're coming from English, expect your Arabic number to be well below your English one at first; that gap closes with practice, not talent.
Can I take the test without an Arabic keyboard?
Yes. Type on your regular Latin keyboard and each key maps through the standard Arabic 101 layout: press H and you get ا, press F and you get ب. The on-screen keyboard shows which key produces which letter. If you have a real Arabic keyboard enabled, your input goes straight through.
Why is my Arabic WPM so much lower than my English WPM?
Mostly muscle memory: you have years of it on the Latin layout and almost none on the Arabic one. Arabic also has letters English fingers never reach for, like the hamza forms on the Shift layer. And reading right to left while you type takes getting used to. A 3x gap between your English and Arabic speeds is completely normal early on.
Is the test free? Do you store my results?
Free, no account needed. Your best score per duration is saved in your own browser (localStorage) so you can try to beat it; nothing is sent to a server.