Typing Speed Calculation

These Formulas are used to Calculate Speed of Typing Test Accurately. These formulas are considered Standard Formulas for Calculating Speed.

First of all, count how many characters you typed in the test then divide that number by 5 whatever result you get to divide it further by total time in minutes. It will be your Gross Word Per Minute. GWPM Doesn't imply the Error Rate. For example your 100 characters or Keystrokes in a minute then your GWPM would be 100/5=20 (WPM), Gross.

Net Word Per Minute is the actual Speed on Which you can Trust completely because it unlike GWPM take into Consideration the Error Rate, in other words, the number of words in which you made Error in a given time slot so, that final Speed will be the outcome of Accuracy and GWPM taken into Deliberation. Suppose your GWPM speed is 20 but you made Error in 5 words so your speed will be 20-5=15 Net Word Per Minute.

Error Rate is Deduced by Dividing Incorrect entries by Total Time(in Minutes). For Example, you made Error in 10 words in 2 Minutes time Slot so your Error Rate would be 10/2=5 Words.

Accuracy is attained by dividing the correct words by total words after that multiply the result with 100 for getting the Percentage. Guess you Made 60 correct insertions out of 120 Total Insertions of words then result Accuracy would be (60/120)*100=50%.