A 1-minute test on Easy
With Easy selected and a 1-minute timer, we typed Portuguese sentences for real and slipped twice. At 60 seconds the result showed 45 WPM and 99% accuracy.
Test your Portuguese typing speed in WPM and accuracy, accents included — free online.
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About
Type real Portuguese passages using the Latin alphabet and nasal/tonal accent marks (ã, õ, ç, á) that shift a word's pronunciation and stress, and get your words-per-minute and accuracy the moment you finish.
Portuguese speakers in Brazil and Portugal use it to check their speed before a job typing test, and learners use it to get quicker at ã, õ, ç and accented vowels.
Examples
4 worked examples
With Easy selected and a 1-minute timer, we typed Portuguese sentences for real and slipped twice. At 60 seconds the result showed 45 WPM and 99% accuracy.
This untimed Medium passage shows slips going red the instant they were typed. 208 characters in 57 seconds came to 44 WPM at 99% accuracy, with 3 slips left.
With its punctuation and numbers, this Hard run lasted 63 seconds, at 34 WPM and 98% accuracy. With Rafael Costa entered as the name, Download certificate saved a PNG showing the score, "Hard · Portuguese" and a QR code.
"…é a melhor forma de digitar mais rápido" mixes é and á, so both accents need to be right for a clean score.
FAQ
Quick answers to common questions about the Portuguese Typing Speed Test.
It shows you a random Portuguese passage — from everyday sentences to Hard ones with R$ prices and times — and reports your words per minute and accuracy when you finish or the timer you chose runs out.
Yes — accents like ã, õ, ç and á are part of the passage and count toward accuracy, the same way any other character would.
They mark nasal vowel sounds and shift where the stress falls in a word — a distinct feature of Portuguese spelling that the passages here include alongside plain letters.
The passages follow Brazilian usage — xícara, café da manhã, você and R$ prices — but the spelling is close enough that typists from Portugal can use them just as well.
On a Brazilian ABNT2 or Portuguese keyboard, ç has its own key and ~ followed by a gives ã. On US-International, ~ then a gives ã, ~ then o gives õ and ' then c gives ç.
Every five characters you type count as one word, and your speed is those words per minute. Mistakes don't lower the WPM itself — they show up in your accuracy, which compares each character you typed with the passage.
Yes. When the test ends, add your name if you like and click Download certificate to save your WPM and accuracy as a PNG image.
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