The short answer
Typing Ink measures only active typing time. There is no countdown, deadline, or penalty for reading before you type.
The primary speed unit follows the writing system: WPM for English, Spanish, and Indonesian; CPM for Korean, Japanese, and Chinese; and graphemes per minute for Hindi.
What each result means
Results describe one completed passage. They are useful for comparing your own sessions, not ranking different scripts against one another.
- Speed
- Correct final input divided by active minutes. WPM uses the conventional five-character word.
- Accuracy
- Correct committed input as a share of all committed input, including errors you later corrected.
- Corrected errors
- Mistakes removed with Backspace before the passage was completed.
- Uncorrected errors
- Wrong characters left in the completed passage.
- Consistency
- How steady your typing rhythm was. Very short samples show ‘not enough data’ instead of guessing.
Worked example
If you finish 250 correct Latin characters in one active minute, the conventional result is 50 WPM. If 245 of 250 committed characters were correct, accuracy is 98%.
250 correct characters ÷ 5 ÷ 1 active minute = 50 WPM
Locale and input-method differences
IME composition is not scored until the browser commits it. Canonically equivalent Unicode sequences are compared according to the locale profile, while punctuation rules remain visible and predictable.
Changing keyboard layout does not change the formula. It only changes which input method is expected for that passage.