Typing speed test · Type vs. talk · macOS
How fast do you actually type — and what is it costing you?
Type one sentence, then read it aloud. In under a minute you’ll see your real typing and speaking speeds — and the hours every year you hand to the keyboard for no good reason.
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Type a sentence, then say it. We’ll time both.
No sign-up, no recording kept. Your microphone is used as a stopwatch and nothing leaves this browser — the same principle privisay is built on.
How the test works
The same trick the app uses — and not a byte uploaded.
Both steps measure the same fixed sentence, so your typing and speaking speeds are a fair, like-for-like comparison — words per minute, the standard unit.
To time your speaking we only need the duration, never the words. Your microphone works as a stopwatch: no transcript, no recording saved, no speech sent anywhere. The whole thing runs in your browser.
That is the entire premise of privisay, demonstrated. The Mac app transcribes the same way — on your machine, with the Wi-Fi off if you like — only it turns your speech into text at the cursor instead of timing it.
Why this is the cheapest hour you’ll buy back
Most people type around 40 words a minute and speak nearer 120. That gap is not a personal failing — it is the keyboard charging you a tax on every memo, email and note you write. Over a year it adds up to weeks.
privisay collects that time back for $79, once. No subscription, no account, and — for anyone handling privileged or NDA work — nothing that ever leaves the machine. The number above is what you stand to reclaim.
Two hundred words take five minutes to type and under two to say. Do that a handful of times a day and the week hands back an afternoon — privately.