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Portuguese typing test - free, for Brazil and Portugal

Take a free Portuguese typing test online - with full native accents (á, é, í, ó, ú, â, ê, ô, ã, õ, à, ç) for both Brazilian and European Portuguese. The corpus is real Portuguese prose. Get WPM, CPM, accuracy, and per-key breakdown after every test. No signup required.

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Portuguese typing test for both Brazil and Portugal

Portuguese has two main variants - Brazilian (português brasileiro) and European (português europeu) - with mostly shared vocabulary but distinct orthography in certain words (after the 2009 Acordo Ortográfico, the conventions have converged but not fully). Typetera's corpus uses post-Acordo modern Portuguese in both variants, with sentences sourced from journalism, literature, and everyday writing. The full character set is supported throughout: á, é, í, ó, ú, â, ê, ô, ã, õ, à, ç, ü. Your keyboard layout (ABNT2 for Brazilian, Portuguese for European) doesn't affect Typetera - we measure what your keyboard outputs.

Why Portuguese typing speeds vary

Portuguese sits between Spanish and French, and the reason is entirely about which characters have their own key. Measured on this site's own corpora, Portuguese needs about 1.6% more keystrokes than English for the same number of characters. The cedilla is free - ABNT2 gives it a key of its own on the home row, right of the L - but the acute, circumflex, tilde and grave all go through a dead key, at two keystrokes for one character. That works out at about 8.9 dead-key characters per hundred words. Word length is not the reason, and we no longer say it is. In our corpora Portuguese words average 4.54 characters and English 4.54; published corpus studies disagree about which is longer, and one puts Portuguese shorter than English. At a fixed 300 keystrokes a minute, Portuguese shows about 59 words per minute against English's 60. If your own gap is far wider than that, it is familiarity rather than the keyboard. Toques por minuto compare more fairly across languages, because they count keystrokes rather than a five-character convention.

Typing tests in Brazilian concursos

Typing tests in Brazilian concursos are real, and they are scored in a way no typing site reports. The format published by FGV for a 2022 competition is a printed text of about 1,800 characters, typed in Microsoft Office in 11 minutes, marked out of 10 points, with 0.05 of a point deducted for every divergent character - and a divergent character means one extra, one missing, or one different. Read that arithmetic and the exercise changes shape. There is no words-per-minute threshold at all: 1,800 characters in 11 minutes is about 164 characters a minute simply to finish the text, which is a modest pace. What decides the mark is accuracy, because 20 wrong characters cost a full point and 200 would cost the entire ten. Spell checkers and toolbars are prohibited. What we could not confirm is that the large federal competitions carry one. The INSS material we read describes objective questions and a training course rather than a digitação stage, and we have not read every edital. Check the one for the post you are sitting; the format above is what these exercises look like where they exist, not a claim that yours has one.

Practice paths for Portuguese typing

For general speed and accuracy: 1-minute and 5-minute Portuguese typing tests in sentences mode at the Portuguese test. For concurso prep: 10-minute tests at the Portuguese test or 5-minute tests with all toggles enabled (punctuation, numbers, capitals). For language-specific drills (tilde sequences, cedilla, accents): Custom mode at the Portuguese test with focused passages. Typetera's corpus respects regional spelling differences where they still exist post-Acordo, so practice transfers cleanly to both Brazilian and European Portuguese assessments.

Questions

Common questions

  • Does Typetera distinguish Brazilian and European Portuguese?

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    The corpus uses post-Acordo Ortográfico Portuguese which is largely shared. Specific regional spellings where they still differ are respected in the corpus.

  • Is the Portuguese typing test free?

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    Yes. No signup, no payment, and nothing advertising around the typing area.

  • Does the corpus support ABNT2 layout?

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    Yes, Typetera works with any Portuguese keyboard layout - ABNT2 (Brazilian), Portuguese (European), or QWERTY with software-mapped dead-keys.

  • Are the tilde (ã, õ) and cedilla (ç) supported?

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    Yes. The full Portuguese character set is supported throughout the corpus and test surface.

  • Why is my Portuguese WPM lower than English?

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    By about 1.6% on our own corpora, and it comes from the dead-key accents rather than from word length. The cedilla has its own key on ABNT2 and costs nothing; the acute, circumflex and tilde cost two keystrokes each.

  • Can I practice for concursos with Typetera?

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    Yes, and the results page reports what these exercises actually measure. The published format is a fixed text of about 1,800 characters in 11 minutes marked out of 10, with 0.05 of a point off per divergent character, so accuracy decides the mark and raw speed only has to be enough to finish. Use the 10-minute duration and Custom mode with administrative prose.

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