Chinese typing test (pinyin)
用最常用的中文词语测试你的拼音打字速度。无需输入法，按拼音输入即可，免费且无需注册。
Type the pinyin of the most common Chinese 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 Chinese on your keyboard
People type Chinese by spelling each word in pinyin and letting an input method turn it into characters, so the fingers type Latin letters. That is what this test measures: you type the pinyin of each word, with the word itself shown above it.
Pinyin is typed the way input methods take it: no tones, no spaces inside a word, and ü as v, so 女 is nv and 绿色 is lvse. Turn your Chinese input method off, or switch it to English letters, for this test.
The words in this test
Each test draws at random from the 200 most common Chinese words, shown with their pinyin. They average 4.6 letters, against 4 in the English test. These are the first 30:
- 的 de
- 是 shi
- 在 zai
- 了 le
- 我 wo
- 和 he
- 有 you
- 不 bu
- 人 ren
- 也 ye
- 你 ni
- 为 wei
- 他 ta
- 这 zhe
- 中 zhong
- 与 yu
- 年 nian
- 对 dui
- 就 jiu
- 都 dou
- 一个 yige
- 上 shang
- 说 shuo
- 吗 ma
- 我们 women
- 会 hui
- 到 dao
- 要 yao
- 来 lai
- 月 yue
The keys you will press most
- i 14%
- n 11%
- e 9%
- a 8%
- g 8%
- u 8%
- h 8%
- o 6%
Getting faster in Chinese
Your speed, accuracy and best here are Chinese numbers, kept apart from any other language. After a test, practice in Chinese finds the keys 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
Does this test give my Chinese typing speed in characters per minute?
No. It counts the letters of the pinyin you type, in words per minute of five letters, so it shows how fast your fingers spell pinyin. It leaves out choosing from the candidate list, which an input method asks for, so the figure is not the characters per minute that Chinese typing speeds are usually quoted in.
Can I compare my Chinese 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 4.6 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 Chinese test come from?
They are the 200 most common Chinese 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