Polish typing test
Sprawdź szybkość pisania na najczęstszych polskich słowach. Za darmo i bez rejestracji.
Type the most common Polish 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 Polish on your keyboard
Most Polish typists use Polish (Programmers), a US-style QWERTY where Right Alt and a letter makes the Polish one: A for ą, C for ć, E for ę, L for ł, N for ń, O for ó, S for ś, Z for ż and X for ź. The Mac’s Polish layout does the same with Option.
On a keyboard without them, plain letters count: type a for ą and l for ł.
The words in this test
Each test draws at random from the 200 most common Polish words. They average 4.1 letters, against 4 in the English test. These are the first 30:
- w
- i
- nie
- na
- się
- to
- z
- do
- jest
- że
- o
- jak
- a
- ale
- co
- tak
- za
- od
- po
- dla
- tym
- czy
- przez
- tego
- są
- ma
- tylko
- już
- mi
- mnie
The letters you will press most
- e 10%
- a 8%
- i 7%
- o 6%
- t 6%
- z 5%
- y 5%
- d 4%
Getting faster in Polish
Your speed, accuracy and best here are Polish numbers, kept apart from any other language. After a test, practice in Polish 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
Which Polish keyboard layout should I use?
Polish (Programmers), the usual one on Windows. Polish (214) is the older typewriter layout, QWERTZ with the Polish letters on keys of their own.
How do I set my keyboard to Polish?
On Windows 11, open Settings, then Time & language, then Language & region, and add Polish. 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 Polish. 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 Polish 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 Polish test come from?
They are the 200 most common Polish 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