Test your Tamil typing speed in WPM and accuracy using real Tamil script passages — free.
Click the text above and just start typing — there's no separate box.
About
Type real Tamil passages — one of the oldest continuously used scripts in the world — exactly as a Tamil keyboard layout produces them, and get your words-per-minute and accuracy the moment you finish. Pick easy, medium or hard passages depending on how much punctuation and vocabulary you want to handle.
Students preparing for Tamil Nadu government typing and clerical exams use it to check their Tamil speed under a timer, while writers, journalists and office staff who type Tamil every day use it to see whether a new keyboard layout is slowing them down.
Examples
2 worked examples
A Hard Tamil passage, punctuation and numbers included, took 53 seconds, at 24 WPM and 98% accuracy. Adding the name Karthik Raman and clicking Download certificate saved a PNG showing the result, the label "Hard · Tamil" and a QR code.
Words like பயிற்சி in the Medium passage include a consonant with a pulli — the dot that removes its inherent vowel — which you type as part of the word.
FAQ
Quick answers to common questions about the Tamil Typing Speed Test.
It gives you a randomly chosen Tamil sentence — from simple lines about tea and the park up to Hard ones with dates and invoice numbers — and reports your words per minute and accuracy when you finish it or when your chosen timer runs out.
Yes — you type Tamil directly, in its own script, exactly as a Tamil keyboard layout would produce it, the same way you'd type any other language here.
Tamil is one of the oldest continuously used scripts in the world, with its own distinct letterforms for consonants and vowels — this test shows and expects that native script directly, not a romanized transliteration.
Any layout that types Tamil script works, because the test only compares the characters you produce. Tamil99, the layout standardised by the Tamil Nadu government, is built into most systems; phonetic layouts that turn English keystrokes into Tamil work just as well.
WPM counts every five characters as one word, and a character here means one visible letter cluster. A consonant with its vowel sign, such as கா, counts as a single character even though it takes two keystrokes.
No. Dates, times and amounts such as 9:30 and 1,059.32 use the ordinary 0–9 digits, so you type them from the number row of your Tamil layout.
You can rehearse under similar pressure with the 5-minute timer, but the passages are general Tamil sentences rather than official exam material, and your exam's scoring rules may differ from this test's.
No. The clock starts on your first keystroke, so you can read the passage and get your Tamil keyboard ready before you begin.
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