20-minute typing tests for advanced practice
The 20-minute typing test is primarily used by candidates preparing for steno-typist, personal assistant, and stenographer-grade exams where sustained performance is essential. It is also used by professional typists and medical transcriptionists who routinely type documents longer than 1,500 words.
At 20 minutes, the key challenge shifts from finger fatigue to cognitive load â you need to read, understand, and reproduce text accurately while maintaining speed. This dual-task demand is exactly what separates casual typists from professionals. Use the hard or very-hard difficulty setting on TypingMonk to simulate the complex vocabulary found in real professional documents.
Very hard difficulty: for advanced typists
Very hard typing tests use dense, complex text: long sentences with multiple clauses, rare vocabulary, heavy punctuation, numbers, and technical terminology. These passages are drawn from scientific literature, legal briefs, advanced academic writing, and technical documentation. They are designed for typists who already type 70+ WPM on medium text and want to push further.
The very hard level simulates the kind of text a court reporter, scientific transcriptionist, or parliamentary secretary encounters. The vocabulary is deliberately unpredictable â you cannot rely on word-shape recognition as much as you do on standard text, forcing letter-by-letter accuracy even at high speed.