Start easy, then climb
Begin with Easy passages until you can keep 97% accuracy, then move to Medium and Hard ones with more punctuation and longer words.
Short stories
Story typing test →Short original stories. Great for a relaxed story typing test with a natural rhythm.
Medium83 words
The Lighthouse Keeper
Every evening at six, Elena climbed the hundred and twelve steps of the old lighthouse. She counted them out loud, the way her grandfather had taught her. At the top she wiped the salt from the glass, checked the lamp, and wrote one line in the logbook. Most nights the line said only, "Calm sea, clear sky." But on the night of the storm she wrote three pages, and in the morning a fishing boat with five tired sailors found its way home.
Easy77 words
The Lost Kite
Sam had a red kite with a long blue tail. One windy day the string slipped from his hand. The kite flew over the park, over the pond, and into a tall oak tree. Sam sat on the grass and felt sad. Then an old man with a ladder walked by. He climbed up, smiled, and handed the kite back. "Hold on tight," he said. Sam did, and the red kite danced in the sky all afternoon.
Medium78 words
The Night Train
The night train left the city at ten past eleven. Maya pressed her face to the window and watched the lights shrink into tiny dots. Somewhere behind her a baby laughed, a man snored, and a conductor whistled softly as he checked tickets. By two in the morning the train was crossing a bridge over a silver river. Maya could not sleep. She did not want to miss a single mile of the journey to her new home.
Easy73 words
The Baker and the Fox
A baker lived at the edge of a small village. Each morning a red fox sat by her door and watched her bake. One day the baker left a warm roll on the step. The fox took it and ran into the woods. The next morning the baker found a basket of wild berries by her door. From then on, the baker made berry rolls, and the fox never missed a single breakfast.
Hard78 words
The Summit at Dawn
They left camp at 3:40 a.m., headlamps bobbing like fireflies on the ridge. The air was thin and sharp; every step felt twice as heavy as the last. Priya counted breaths instead of meters: in, step, out, step. At 6:15 the sky turned from ink to violet, then to gold. When she finally reached the summit, she didn't cheer. She simply sat on a cold rock, looked across a sea of clouds, and laughed until her eyes watered.
Medium73 words
The Robot Gardener
The robot was built to cut grass, nothing more. But one spring it found a small yellow flower growing through a crack in the path. It stopped, measured the flower, and decided not to cut it. The next day it found two more. By summer the robot had stopped mowing almost everything, and the park was full of color, bees, and children who came to see the machine that had learned to wait.
Hard77 words
The Message in a Bottle
On a gray Tuesday, Leo found a green bottle wedged between two rocks. Inside was a note, dated June 4, 1987, written in careful blue ink: "Whoever finds this, please write back. I want to know how far the sea can carry a wish." There was an address in Lisbon. Leo wrote a long letter that same night. Three weeks later a reply arrived, from a woman named Inês, who had waited thirty-nine years for an answer.
Easy75 words
The First Snow
Nora woke up and the room was very bright. She ran to the window. Snow covered the cars, the roofs, and the little fence. Her dog barked at the white yard. Nora put on her boots, her hat, and her big green coat. She made a snowman with a carrot nose and two stone eyes. Then she lay down and made a snow angel, and she laughed as the cold flakes fell on her face.