Tracking your actual drafting speed — words per minute during genuine composition, not just typing speed — gives insight into your writing pace over a session, useful for estimating how long a larger writing project might realistically take.
Click start to begin timing, then write directly in the text box; the tool tracks elapsed time and word count live, calculating your effective words-per-minute drafting pace throughout the session.
Unlike a typing speed test that measures how fast you can copy existing text, this measures actual composition speed — thinking, drafting, and revising as you go — which is typically much slower than pure typing speed and more useful for realistic project time estimates.
Because everything runs locally in your browser, results appear instantly and nothing you type or upload is ever sent to a server.
Bookmark this page if you expect to use this tool regularly — it loads fast and behaves the same way every time, with no account needed.
This kind of task shows up constantly in everyday writing, coding, design, and admin work, which is exactly why a dedicated, focused tool saves so much back-and-forth.
A tool that does one job well, without a cluttered interface or unrelated features competing for attention, tends to be faster to use than a heavier all-in-one app.
Frequently asked questions
Why is composition speed so much slower than typing speed?
Typing speed measures pure keystroke speed copying known text, while composition speed includes the thinking, phrasing, and revising that happens while actually drafting original content — a fundamentally different and typically much slower process.
Does this save my writing after the session?
No, this tool tracks speed metrics live during the session only — copy your text elsewhere before closing the page if you want to keep what you wrote.