Text Difficulty Analyzer

Not all text is equally hard to type, and "hard" isn't just about length. A thousand-word passage of short, common words can be faster to type cleanly than a single sentence packed with symbols, long unfamiliar words, or letters that rarely show up in English. This tool scores text on three factors that actually predict typing difficulty: average word length, how dense the text is with symbols and punctuation that require reaching off the home row or using Shift, and how often it uses letters that are rare in everyday English, like q, x, z, and j, which your fingers have had less practice with.

Paste anything: an article, a code snippet, an email you need to send, study notes. You'll get a difficulty score out of 100, a plain-language rating, and an estimated time to type it based on a typical typing speed adjusted for that difficulty. This is useful for sanity-checking how long a writing or transcription task will actually take, or just for satisfying curiosity about why some passages feel harder than their word count suggests.