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Spanish typing test - free, with native accents and ñ

Take a free Spanish typing test online - with full native diacritics (á, é, í, ó, ú, ü) and the ñ character. The corpus is real Spanish prose, not machine-translated English. Get your WPM, CPM, accuracy, and per-key breakdown after every test. No signup required.

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Spanish typing test that handles ñ and accents

A real Spanish typing test has to handle the full Spanish character set - the five accented vowels (á, é, í, ó, ú), the diaeresis vowel (ü), the ñ character, and inverted punctuation (¿ at the start of questions, ¡ at the start of exclamations). Many English-first typing test sites either skip these characters, force you to type without them (which isn't real Spanish), or convert them to their unaccented forms. Typetera handles the full character set. You set your keyboard layout to Spanish (España, Latinoamericano, or whichever regional variant fits your system), and the test corpus includes proper Spanish punctuation and accents throughout. We measure exactly what your keyboard outputs.

Why Spanish typing speeds differ from English

Spanish is the most expensive of the three to type, and the reason is narrower than it looks. Measured on this site's own corpora, Spanish needs about 2.1% more keystrokes than English for the same number of characters. The n-tilde is free, with a key of its own on the home row, but the five accented vowels all go through a dead key at two keystrokes each, and they are common: about 11.7 dead-key characters per hundred words. It is not word length, and we stopped saying it was. In our corpora Spanish words average 4.56 characters and English 4.54, and published corpus studies disagree with each other about which language runs longer. At a fixed 300 keystrokes a minute, Spanish shows about 58.8 words per minute against English's 60 - a gap of roughly one word a minute, not the five to fifteen per cent this page used to claim. A wider personal gap is usually familiarity with the language rather than the keyboard. Pulsaciones compare more fairly across languages, and Typetera shows both figures side by side after every test.

Typing exercises in Spanish public-sector competitions

Typing exercises in Spanish public-sector competitions are scored in keystrokes, not words, and they are rarer than most preparation material suggests. The 2025 notifications for the Cuerpo General Auxiliar del Estado and for the Justicia cuerpos set none at all; the clearest surviving national one is the Cortes Generales, at 250 net keystrokes a minute over ten minutes. What makes those exercises unlike a typing test is the penalty. Each wrong keystroke removes six from the total rather than one, and a separate ceiling excludes anyone more than two per cent wrong however fast they typed. So the number to train against is not the one most practice tools report, and accuracy is worth roughly six times what speed is worth. Which competitions still set one sets out what we could confirm from the notifications and what we could not, and how net keystrokes are calculated works the arithmetic through. For employer screening outside the public sector there is no published standard at all, so we do not quote one.

Practice paths for Spanish typing

For general speed and accuracy building: 1-minute and 5-minute Spanish typing tests in sentences mode at the Spanish test. For exam-style endurance practice (oposiciones, concursos): 10-minute tests with all toggles on. For drills on Spanish-specific characters (ñ, accented vowels): Custom mode at the Spanish test with focused passages. For comparing across languages: take a 1-minute English test and a 1-minute Spanish test back-to-back - the difference in WPM is your second-language penalty, which is normal and shrinks with practice. Daily 20-30 minute Spanish typing practice typically lifts most users' WPM by 10-15 in a month.

Questions

Common questions

  • Does Typetera support the ñ character?

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    Yes. The full Spanish character set including ñ, á, é, í, ó, ú, ü, and inverted ¿¡ punctuation is supported throughout.

  • Is the Spanish typing test free?

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

  • What is the difference between the España and Latinoamericano layouts?

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    Any of them. Typetera measures the characters your keyboard produces, so the layout does not change your score - though it changes how fast you reach it. The Spanish and Latin American layouts are both ISO and both put the enye beside the L, but they place the at sign and the tilde differently and only the Spanish one reaches the euro sign directly. Practise on whichever your examination centre provides.

  • Why is my Spanish WPM slightly lower than English?

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    By about 2.1% measured on our own corpora, which is roughly one word a minute at typical speeds. It comes from the accented vowels going through a dead key, not from word length, which is nearly identical in the two languages.

  • Can I practice for oposiciones with Typetera?

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    Yes, and the results page reports the figure those exercises are actually scored on: net keystrokes under the six-keystroke penalty, alongside the gross count and the error rate. Use the ten-minute duration, which matches most exercises, and Custom mode to work from past papers. Check first whether the competition you are sitting still sets a typing exercise, because several large ones no longer do.

  • Does the Spanish corpus include inverted punctuation (¿ ¡)?

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    Yes. The corpus uses proper Spanish punctuation throughout, including inverted question and exclamation marks at the start of sentences.

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