In addition, many of the programs will perform a character count of a selected text. Character counting tools many times will provide additional information, such as the character count with and without spaces. A dialogue box will appear containing the character count.
Then you just have to click the Start test button and the test will begin. Select the TOOLS menu and then WORD COUNT. Next you have to copy and paste your text inside the empty box that will appear.
#WORD COUNTER TYPING TEST HOW TO#
The counter will be updated instantly, displaying the amount of characters, words, sentences, paragraphs and whitespace in your text, not to mention that the keyword density (which you can configure from the options menu) is also displayed. How to use your own text for the typing test First you must select the Custom option in the selector above the text box (by default the selected option is Text). You can copy and paste your text with the characters to count in the text area above, or you can type your characters and words into the text area. here is the result, hope it helps out! What is this?Ĭharacter Count Online is a free online character and word counting tool.Īll results are immediately shown and it is ridiculously easy to use and of course, the service is completely free. There were a couple of tools out there, but none of them met my standards and since I am a web designer I thought: why not do it myself and help others along the way?Īnd. Unfortunately, I could not think of a quick way to do so on my macbook and I therefore turned to the Internet. A while back I needed to count the amount of letters that a piece of text in an email template had (to avoid passing any character limits).