Email furniturewala@yahoo.com. Please say which iPhone you are using and which version of iOS is on it — Settings › General › About. Most problems turn out to be specific to one device or one OS version.
The keyboard comes up on its own. Start typing and the clock starts with your first keystroke — not before, so you can read the first line without losing time. If the keyboard has been dismissed, the words blur and the screen says Tap to type; tap them to bring it back.
Press space. That commits the word, right or wrong, and moves the caret to the next one. Return does the same thing.
Delete works as you would expect inside a word. On an empty word it steps back into the previous one, so you can repair a word you have already passed. Note that fixing a mistake does not undo it in the accuracy figure — the wrong key was still pressed.
Tap Restart for a new set of words at any time. After a test finishes, Next test deals new words and Same text runs the identical passage again, which is the honest way to see whether you have actually got faster.
Time gives you 15, 30, 60 or 120 seconds and counts how much you get through. Words gives you 10, 25, 50 or 100 words and counts how long you take. Changing either starts a fresh test.
!? generates the words as real sentences, with capital letters, commas and full stops. 123 mixes in numbers. Both make the test harder and both are off by default.
Deliberate. Autocorrect, predictive text and smart punctuation are all switched off, because a typing test that lets the keyboard finish your words is measuring the keyboard. This cannot be turned back on.
Correct characters divided by five, per minute — the standard definition of a word in every typing test. Only words you typed exactly right count towards it, plus the correct start of whatever word you were in the middle of when the time ran out.
Raw counts everything you typed; speed counts only what you got right. The gap between them is what your mistakes cost you. If they are far apart, slowing down will usually make you faster.
How even your pace was across the test, worked out from how much you typed in each second. Hold a steady rhythm and it stays high; sprint, stall, and sprint again and it drops, even if your average speed is identical. Most people sit somewhere between 60% and 85%.
Because the wrong key was still pressed. Accuracy counts keystrokes, not the final state of the text, so a mistake you spotted and corrected still shows. The word itself does count as correct once it is right — that is what feeds your speed.
Bests are kept per mode and per length, so a 15-second best and a 60-second best are separate. Punctuation and numbers do not split it further: they are a difficulty setting, and separating them would leave most people with no history to compare against.
On your iPhone, and nowhere else. There is no account and no sync, so the history does not follow you to another device.
Open the history screen with the chart button, then tap Clear. It asks first, and it cannot be undone.
They are gone — deleting an iOS app removes everything it stored. Nothing is kept on a server that could restore them.
Yes. Tap the … button at the top right and switch off Haptics.
No. Thumbs is portrait-only on iPhone, because the whole design assumes two thumbs on a phone-sized keyboard. It will run on an iPad in iPhone compatibility mode, but that is not what it was built for.
It will work, but the scores are not comparable with thumb typing and the on-screen keyboard will not appear.
No. Each test draws from a list of the two hundred most common English words, in a new random order, and never repeats a word twice in a row.