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Copy practice

Knowing every character and being able to copy a line are different skills. A whole line arrives at once here — write down what you got, and see character by character what you missed.

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.

Why five-character groups?

Because they 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 groups measure copying and nothing else, which is why every proficiency test has used them for a century. Five is about as much as anyone holds before the next group starts.

Should I write it down or type it?

Type it here so it can be graded, but the habit worth building is copying a character or twobehind the sending rather than trying to keep up. Falling behind on purpose is how operators reach high speeds — you are decoding the last character while hearing the next.

Working on individual characters instead? Trypractice, or the60-second challenge.