Italian typing test
Misura la tua velocità di scrittura con le parole italiane più comuni. Gratis e senza registrazione.
Type the most common Italian 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 Italian on your keyboard
The Italian keyboard is QWERTY with keys of its own for è, ò, à, ù and ì. É is Shift and the è key. Italian words mostly take an accent on their last letter, as in perché, più and città.
On a keyboard without them, plain letters count: type e for è and a for à.
The words in this test
Each test draws at random from the 200 most common Italian words. They average 4.1 letters, against 4 in the English test. These are the first 30:
- di
- e
- che
- il
- la
- a
- in
- non
- un
- per
- è
- del
- i
- una
- le
- si
- con
- della
- da
- sono
- ma
- al
- ha
- come
- più
- dei
- se
- nel
- mi
- alla
The letters you will press most
- e 12%
- o 12%
- a 10%
- i 8%
- t 7%
- l 7%
- n 6%
- s 6%
Getting faster in Italian
Your speed, accuracy and best here are Italian numbers, kept apart from any other language. After a test, practice in Italian 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 è and à without an Italian keyboard?
On Windows, add the United States-International layout: press ` then e for è, ` then a for à, and ' then e for é. On a Mac, press Option-` then e for è, and Option-E then e for é.
Sources: Microsoft: United States-International keyboard layout; Apple: Enter characters with accent marks on Mac
How do I set my keyboard to Italian?
On Windows 11, open Settings, then Time & language, then Language & region, and add Italian. 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 Italian. 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 Italian 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 4.1 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 Italian test come from?
They are the 200 most common Italian 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