The 60-second Morse code test
The 60-second Morse code challenge is a quick practice test: one character plays at a time and you type what you hear. When the time is up you get a score and a link that carries the same settings, so a friend can take the identical test and try to beat your result.
60-second test
One character plays at a time. Type the letter you heard; the next one follows a moment later.
60 seconds · 15 WPM · 14 letters
The letters in this run
- E
- T
- I
- A
- N
- M
- S
- U
- R
- W
- D
- K
- G
- O
New to Morse code? E is one short beep and T is one long one. Learn your first letters before the clock starts.
Never done this before?
The standard run draws from the first 14 letters of the teaching order, so 60 seconds is enough to score with only a few of them. E is one dot (·) and T is one dash (−). The guided lessons follow the 7-day plan, which takes you from there to all 26 letters in about 2 hours 15 minutes of practice.
Retake it as often as you like; every run you start yourself gets a new sequence. If you want one fixed test a day instead, the daily challenge is the same 8 lines for everyone.
Challenging someone else
Finish a run and you get a link that carries the whole test: a seed that fixes which characters come up and in what order, how many letters it draws from, the length, the speed, and your score to beat.
/challenge/?seed=k7f3&pool=14&time=60&wpm=15&beat=340Your friend hears exactly what you heard, so the two scores are comparable. There is no server behind it: everything is in the URL, so the link works offline and keeps working. That also means the score on a link is a claim, and the page shows it as one. Values outside a sensible range are clamped rather than trusted, from 15 to 300 seconds and 5 to 40 WPM, and a broken link falls back to the standard test instead of an error.
There is no global leaderboard, because ranking strangers honestly needs a server that checks every score. Your own best and a friend's link are the comparisons this can make truthfully.
Common questions
- Is this a real Morse code test?
- It is a practice test, not a licence exam. It measures how many characters you can copy by ear in 60 seconds at the speed you choose, then gives you a score and a link so a friend can take the identical test. Nothing about it is certified or official.