Indonesian Typing Test
Tes mengetik Bahasa Indonesia — practise on real Indonesian passages and see your WPM and accuracy.
Bahasa Indonesia is typed on an ordinary keyboard with no special characters, so it looks like it should feel the same as English. It does not. We measured our Indonesian passages against our English ones, key by key, and found that Indonesian puts far more work on one finger, uses longer words, and repeats a small set of prefixes and suffixes. Each of those changes how you should practise.
What you will type
30 passages in three levels, from everyday instructions on Easy to formal writing about the economy and technology on Hard.
Selamat datang di tes mengetik bahasa Indonesia. Tes ini dirancang untuk membantu Anda meningkatkan kecepatan dan akurasi mengetik. Silakan ketik teks yang muncul di layar dengan cepat dan tepat. Jika Anda membuat kesalahan, gunakan tombol backspace untuk memperbaikinya. Semoga Anda berhasil dan dapat mencapai kecepatan yang Anda inginkan dalam latihan ini.
Globalisasi ekonomi telah menciptakan persaingan yang semakin ketat di pasar tenaga kerja internasional, menuntut setiap individu untuk memiliki kompetensi yang komprehensif dan adaptif. Penguasaan teknologi informasi, kemampuan analisis data, keterampilan komunikasi lintas budaya, serta kapasitas belajar mandiri menjadi prasyarat fundamental bagi para profesional yang ingin bersaing di tingkat global. Transformasi ekonomi yang dipercepat oleh berbagai perubahan telah mendorong adopsi model …
Indonesian and English, measured
| Measure | Indonesian passages | English passages |
|---|---|---|
| Average word length | 6.67 letters | 5.65 letters |
| Words of 10+ letters | 14.1% | 12.6% |
| Most common letter | A — 18.4% | E — 11.8% |
| Vowels among letters | 41.7% | 38.7% |
| Keystrokes on the home row | 36.4% | 26.3% |
| Keystrokes by the left little finger | 18.2% | 8.6% |
| “ng” per 100 letters | 3.03 | 1.5 |
| Key pairs that switch hands | 57.8% | 54.1% |
| The ten most common words, as a share of all words | 20.1% | 21.3% |
Measured on the 1,827 words of our Indonesian passages and the 4,598 words of our general English passages, using the same finger assignments as our touch-typing course.
The left little finger does 2.1× the work
The single biggest difference is the letter A. In English it is one common letter among several; in our Indonesian passages it is 18.4% of every letter typed — nearly one in five. A sits under the left little finger, the weakest finger on the hand, so that finger’s share of keystrokes rises from 8.6% in English to 18.2%.
| Finger | Indonesian | English |
|---|---|---|
| Left little finger | 18.2% | 8.6% |
| Left ring | 5.2% | 7.9% |
| Left middle | 13.6% | 19% |
| Left index | 17% | 20.9% |
| Right index | 23.8% | 18.3% |
| Right middle | 13% | 10.3% |
| Right ring | 6.1% | 12.7% |
| Right little finger | 3.2% | 2.4% |
Two practical consequences. First, if your left hand tires before your right, this is why, and it is worth keeping the little finger relaxed and resting on A rather than reaching for it. Second, typists who cheat A with the ring finger can get away with it in English but pay for it in Indonesian, where the habit repeats every few letters. The home row lesson builds the correct finger from the start.
The good news is the home row: 36.4% of Indonesian keystrokes land on it, against 26.3% in English, because three of the most common Indonesian letters — A, K and S — are home-row keys.
Longer words, and what WPM means
An Indonesian word in our passages averages 6.67 letters, a full letter longer than English. Typing tests do not count real words; they count every five characters, including spaces, as one standard word. That keeps scores comparable across languages, but it means your WPM and the number of Indonesian words you typed are different numbers.
So a score of 35 WPM here means about 23 real Indonesian words a minute. If an employer asks how many words you can type, give them your WPM and say it is the standard five-character measure.
Affixes: the same pieces, over and over
Indonesian builds words from a root plus prefixes and suffixes, and a handful of them recur constantly. In our passages, 9.4% of words begin with the meN- prefix (me-, mem-, men-, meng-, meny-) and 4.8% end in -kan. The letter pair “ng” appears 3.03 times per 100 letters, twice the English rate, because it sits inside so many of these forms.
Two little words matter even more: yang and dan together are 10% of all words in the passages. Practise these pieces until your fingers type them as single movements — meng-, -kan, -nya, yang, dan — and a large share of every Indonesian text becomes automatic.
How this test scores you
Net WPM = (characters typed ÷ 5 − wrong words) ÷ minutes. Backspace is on, so a mistake you fix costs only time; a word still wrong at the end costs a full standard word. The default is a 5-minute run and the target is 35 net WPM — a practice goal, not an official Indonesian standard, which as far as we know does not exist for general typing. If an employer gives you a typing test, ask how they count words and mistakes; the answer changes what you need to practise.
A four-week plan
| When | Focus | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | Baseline and the left hand | One 5-minute Medium run to get your net WPM. Then daily 3-minute Easy runs with your left little finger resting on A, never lifted. |
| Week 2 | Affixes as chunks | Medium runs. Type meng-, -kan and -nya as single movements rather than letter by letter; slow down until they flow. |
| Week 3 | Long words | Hard runs, where long formal words are most common. Keep wrong words under 5% before pushing speed. |
| Week 4 | Full length | Alternate 5- and 10-minute Hard runs. Aim for 35 net WPM with 95% accuracy or better. |
If you are still looking at the keyboard, start with the touch-typing course; the how to type faster guide explains why accuracy comes first.
Frequently asked questions
What is a good typing speed in Indonesian?
We know of no large study of Indonesian typists. The largest study of everyday typists, in English, measured an average of about 52 WPM. Indonesian words are longer — 6.67 letters on average in our passages against 5.65 in English — so a fair aim is the 35 WPM target on this test, which is about 23 real Indonesian words a minute.
How is WPM calculated on this tes mengetik?
Every five characters you type, including spaces, count as one standard word. Gross WPM is all your characters divided by five, per minute; net WPM then subtracts one standard word for each word you got wrong. Using five characters rather than real words makes Indonesian and English scores comparable.
Why does my left hand get tired when typing Indonesian?
Because of the letter A. It is 18.4% of all the letters in our Indonesian passages, against 8.6% in English, and A is typed by the left little finger. That finger does about 2.1 times as much work in Indonesian as in English.
Do I need a special keyboard to type Indonesian?
No. Standard written Indonesian uses the ordinary Latin alphabet without accents — our passages contain no accented letters at all — so a normal English keyboard has every key you need.
Is this Indonesian typing test free?
Yes. There is no sign-up and no limit on attempts. Choose Easy, Medium or Hard and a duration of 1, 3, 5 or 10 minutes; the test starts on your first keystroke and shows your WPM, accuracy and mistakes when the time runs out.
Sources
The comparison figures are measured from our own Indonesian and English passages by scripts/language-stats.mjs, using the finger map in our touch-typing course. The average typing speed comes from the study below, which measured English typists.
- Dhakal, Feit, Kristensson & Oulasvirta — “Observations on Typing from 136 Million Keystrokes”ACM CHI 2018 · Aalto University and University of Cambridge · link checked 25 Oct 2026