About TypeBurst
TypeBurst is a free typing speed test that runs entirely in your browser. Pick a length from 10 seconds to 5 minutes, type the words on screen and get your words per minute and accuracy, scored by rules that are published in full. Take the typing test; there is nothing to sign up for first.
Who makes it
TypeBurst is built and maintained by FusionStudios, a web design studio in the Netherlands, as one of a set of small, fast, single-purpose web tools. There is no separate company behind the name and no editorial team: "the TypeBurstteam" in a byline means the people at FusionStudios who write and maintain these pages. We would rather say that plainly than invent an author who does not exist.
The site went live on 3 July 2026. What changed since, and when, is on the changelog, including which changes affected how a score is calculated.
Why it exists
Checking your typing speed should take seconds, not a sign up flow. Open the page, pick a duration, start typing. There is no account to create, nothing to install, no trial, no upsell and no email step anywhere, including on the printable result record.
The second reason is narrower and it is the one worth reading. Typing tests disagree with each other by more than ten words per minute on identical typing, and almost none of them say how they count. That is not a small detail if you are about to sit an employment assessment. So this site publishes its rules in full on the methodology page, with a version number, and shows every finished run as gross WPM, net WPM and keystrokes per hour rather than one number with no definition.
What we measure
Every run is scored in your browser, from the characters you typed against the passage on screen. The headline number is correct characters divided by five, divided by the minutes of the test: a word is always five characters, and a wrong character simply earns nothing. Alongside it the result shows accuracy, net WPM, raw WPM and a count of letters that were right, wrong, extra or missed. The clock starts on your first keystroke, not when the page loads.
Characters per minute and keystrokes per hour are not separate measurements. They are the same count multiplied out, five characters to a word and sixty minutes to an hour, so they always agree with the WPM figure. Every rule, including what backspace and paste do, is written down with a version number on the methodology page.
What the site cannot measure is where you rank. Other typing tests can tell you that you are faster than 82 percent of their visitors. This one cannot, because it never collected the scores that would make such a figure true. That is a real limitation and it is worth naming rather than hiding. Where a percentile would go, published research goes instead, and every figure on the average typing speed page is traceable to the study it came from.
What we never collect
Your personal best per duration and a history of your finished runs are stored in your own browser, and you can chart, export, import or delete them on the progress page. Nothing is uploaded: there is no server that receives a score, so there is no database of results, no leaderboard and no percentile.
There is no account, so there is no name, email address or password to hand over, and the text you type is never sent anywhere. A shared result link carries only what you can read in its address, such as the speed, the accuracy and the test length; a challenge link adds the seed that rebuilds the same words, never your keystrokes. The one place where something you write leaves the page is the contact form, and only when you press send. Cookies, and what the host sees when a page loads, are covered in the privacy policy.
How it is paid for
It is not. TypeBurst carries no advertising, no affiliate links, no sponsorship and no paid tier, and it earns nothing. It costs very little to run, because it is a static site with no server doing work on your behalf, and FusionStudios absorbs that cost as part of maintaining its own tools. The only commercial interest anywhere on the site is the studio credit, which is on this page, the embed page and the changelog, and never on a page where you are trying to take a test.
How pages are reviewed
Every guide shows the date it was first published and the date its content last changed. That second date moves only when something on the page was actually rewritten or rechecked, never because the site was redeployed, and the date in the footer follows the newest entry on the changelog for the same reason.
Pages built on research, such as the average typing speed figures, are rechecked against their sources every quarter. A figure stays only if the study it is attributed to says it, and a number we cannot source is left out rather than estimated.
Changes to scoring take a stricter route. Any change to how a score is calculated raises the methodology version number and is listed on the changelog marked as affecting measurement, so a result can always be read under the rules that produced it.
How to report a mistake
If a figure looks wrong, a source does not say what a page claims, or a run was scored in a way the methodology does not describe, please say so on the contact page. The page address and a sentence on what you expected are enough. For a scoring problem, the test length and your browser help us reproduce it.
A confirmed mistake is corrected on the page itself and the page's update date moves with it. If the fix changes how anything is scored, it also gets its own entry on the changelog, so nobody has to guess why a number moved.
Recent changes
- Measurement methodology version 1.1.0 (affects measurement)
- Punctuation, capitals and your own text (affects measurement)
- Consistency, next to every score (affects measurement)
See the full changelog, or head back to the typing test and set a new personal best. Questions, corrections and bug reports are welcome on the contact page.