Hebrew Typing Test

Five Hebrew consonants change shape at the end of a word: כ becomes ך, and likewise ם ן ף ץ. They are separate Unicode characters rather than a styled variant.

So typing the ordinary form at the end of a word counts as an error here. That is deliberate — it is the single most common mistake people make typing Hebrew, and a test that let it pass would be measuring something easier than Hebrew.

Worth noting the contrast: on the English to Hebrew typing tool the final forms are applied for you automatically. Here you have to know them.

The passages carry no nikkud. Newspapers, email, signage and messages are all unvocalised, so this measures the writing you would actually do rather than a liturgical or teaching form almost nobody types.

It also keeps the score comparable: a run against vocalised text would measure a different and much rarer skill.

Gross WPM is characters divided by five, per minute. Net WPM subtracts errors per minute, clamped at zero. Accuracy is correct characters over everything typed, computed at the end from a log of what you produced.

One, three or five minutes; common words or paragraphs; finishing early allowed. The per-character breakdown at the end usually points at the final forms. On a phone the Hebrew keyboard drills teach the layout, which is what transfers.