Arabic typing test
اختبر سرعة كتابتك بأكثر الكلمات العربية شيوعًا، مجانًا ودون تسجيل.
Type the most common Arabic words for 60 seconds and see your words per minute, accuracy and consistency. The clock starts with your first key.
The timer starts with your first key.Tab or Esc restarts
Typing Arabic on your keyboard
Windows includes several Arabic layouts, of which Arabic (101) is the usual one. Letters join by themselves as you type, and the text and the caret run from right to left.
The text has no vowel marks. Alef with hamza has its own Shift keys on Arabic (101): أ is Shift and H, إ is Shift and Y, and آ is Shift and N, and each is checked as written.
The words in this test
Each test draws at random from the 200 most common Arabic words. They average 3.6 letters, against 4 in the English test. These are the first 30:
- في
- من
- على
- أن
- لا
- إلى
- ما
- عن
- هذا
- مع
- التي
- كل
- هذه
- أو
- هو
- كان
- الذي
- ذلك
- بعد
- الله
- لم
- بين
- كانت
- يا
- حتى
- قبل
- قد
- هي
- إن
- كما
The letters you will press most
- ا 12%
- ل 12%
- ن 8%
- ي 8%
- م 7%
- و 6%
- د 4%
- ع 4%
Getting faster in Arabic
Your speed, accuracy and best here are Arabic numbers, kept apart from any other language. After a test, practice in Arabic finds the letters that slow you down and builds its text around them. The score is counted as in the main typing test, which explains how.
Frequently asked questions
How do I type لا on an Arabic keyboard?
It has a key of its own on Arabic (101), the B key, which types ل and ا together. The test counts them as two letters, the way they are stored.
How do I set my keyboard to Arabic?
On Windows 11, open Settings, then Time & language, then Language & region, and add Arabic. Hold the Windows key and press Space to switch keyboards. On a Mac, open System Settings, then Keyboard, then Text Input, choose Edit, and add Arabic. Control and Space switches between them.
Sources: Microsoft: Manage the input and display language settings in Windows; Apple: Write in another language on your Mac
Can I compare my Arabic speed with my English speed?
The counting is the same: five typed characters are one word, so 60 WPM means 300 correct characters a minute in any language. The words here average 3.6 letters, against 4 in the English test. Your two numbers will still differ, because how well you know a language’s words and letter patterns matters as much as your fingers. Each language keeps its own best, so you always compare like with like.
Where do the words in this Arabic test come from?
They are the 200 most common Arabic words in wordfreq, a research list of word frequencies built from subtitles, news, books and web text. We took out names, abbreviations and words unfit for children, and each test draws at random from what is left.
Source: wordfreq, by Robyn Speer