Morse code copy practice
Copy practice sends whole lines of Morse code and grades what you type, character by character. Choose five-character code groups, common words, on-air phrases or callsigns. Lines are aligned before grading, so missing one character costs one mark instead of everything after it, and you see exactly which characters got past you.
What should I send?
Text
The standard exercise, and the honest one. Random groups cannot be guessed from context, so they measure what you can actually copy rather than what you can infer. Every proficiency test uses them for exactly that reason.
Characters
Lines
Sending at 15 WPM, spaced out to 8. Change it in settings.
Working on single characters instead? Try Practice or the 60-second challenge. Want the same lines as everyone else today? That is the daily challenge.
Common questions
- Why practise Morse code with random code groups?
- Because random groups cannot be guessed. Real words let you fill in a missing letter from the ones either side, which is a useful skill but hides what you can actually hear. Random code groups measure copying and nothing else, which is why proficiency tests have long used them. MorseForge's copy practice sends groups of five, about as much as anyone holds before the next group starts.
- How is a line of Morse code copy graded?
- Character by character, after lining up what was sent with what you typed, so dropping one character costs one mark rather than every character after it. In MorseForge's copy practice a line is clean when every character is right and nothing was added, and it clears the bar at 90%, because on the air most of a callsign is a wrong callsign.
- Should I write Morse code down or type it?
- Type it in MorseForge so the line can be graded, but the habit worth building either way is copying a character or two behind the sending rather than trying to keep up. Falling behind on purpose is how Morse operators reach high speeds: you decode the last character while hearing the next.