Japanese typing test (romaji)
よく使われる日本語の単語で、ローマ字入力の速さを測れます。IMEは不要、無料で登録もいりません。
Type the romaji of the most common Japanese 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 Japanese on your keyboard
Most Japanese typists spell words in romaji and let an input method turn them into kana and kanji. This test measures that finger work: you type the romaji of each word, with the word shown above it.
Romaji is typed as an input method takes it: ん is nn before a vowel, n or y (分野 is bunnya), small っ doubles the next consonant (学校 is gakkou), and the long-vowel mark ー is the minus key. Turn your Japanese input method off, or switch it to direct input, for this test.
The words in this test
Each test draws at random from the 200 most common Japanese words, shown with their romaji. They average 4.4 letters, against 4 in the English test. These are the first 30:
- ない nai
- する suru
- こと koto
- いる iru
- ある aru
- 人 hito
- 日 hi
- いい ii
- この kono
- そう sou
- けど kedo
- これ kore
- よう you
- 年 nen
- その sono
- なる naru
- 者 mono
- 月 tsuki
- という toiu
- 中 naka
- それ sore
- 何 nani
- 私 watashi
- ため tame
- 時 toki
- 一 ichi
- 今 ima
- 方 kata
- として toshite
- など nado
The keys you will press most
- a 14%
- o 13%
- i 12%
- k 8%
- u 8%
- n 8%
- s 6%
- e 5%
Getting faster in Japanese
Your speed, accuracy and best here are Japanese numbers, kept apart from any other language. After a test, practice in Japanese 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
Is this test for romaji input or kana input?
Romaji input, the Latin-letter way of typing Japanese. If you type with the kana printed on a Japanese keyboard, the keys are different and this test won’t measure them. It also leaves out converting to kanji, so the score shows how fast your fingers spell romaji.
Can I compare my Japanese 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 4.4 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 Japanese test come from?
They are the 200 most common Japanese 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