Levels

How the ladder works

The levels are not a list of speeds. Each one changes what the text contains as well as how fast you have to type it: the commonest words first, then sentences, then punctuation, numbers, capitals and accents, then all of them over longer passages. Speed alone would make this a chart of your best day; widening what you can type is the part that transfers to real work. How many levels there are depends on the language, because a level is only offered where that language can really produce the text it names - Spanish has an accents level and English does not, since no English sentence carries one.

A level needs clearing twice, not once. One clear can be a lucky passage - a run with no awkward bigram in it, or a stretch where every word was one you type often. Two at the same standard is much harder to get by accident, and it is the same rule the exam-readiness pages use for the same reason.

The ladder never moves backwards. A level you have cleared stays cleared even if a later attempt goes badly, because taking something away for one bad run is a punishment rather than a measurement. It also advances one rung at a time, so an afternoon of easy levels cannot skip you past text you cannot yet type.