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IEEE Keyboard Typing Marathon
Type. Compete. Repeat.
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The IEEE Keyboard Typing Marathon was the first and largest speed typing competition in Egypt founded by the IEEE AAST Alexandria Student Branch in 2022, it welcomed contestants from all over the country and recognized the fastest typers nationwide.
From researchers, content writers, and programmers, to all keyboard practitioners, contestants showed off their typing speed at the competition.
In the first edition in 2022, the contest had over 100 participants with prizes sponsored by MSI Gaming and AAST. After its great success and demand for a second edition, it was reorganized in 2024 with over 150 participants and more valuable prizes from the sponsors.
Now, with more IEEE Student Members globally learning about the IEEE Keyboard Typing Marathon and its value through two successful national editions, it is time we globalize it.
problem & solution
problem
IEEE consists of hundreds of thousands of keyboard practitioners, and the world consists of millions, from researchers, programmers, content writers, students, to more roles that require frequent use of a computer keyboard, all of which quick typing speeds boost productivity. Fast and accurate typing skills is a determiner of a person’s digital skills.
Through a study in November 2023 , average typing speeds have been found to be around 52 words per minute (WPM), and trained typists would typically reach speeds of 60-90 WPM, with the top tier exceeding 100 WPM. People unfamiliar with keyboard layouts may struggle to reach 20 WPM as they need to stare at the keyboard.
solution
The IEEE Keyboard Typing Marathon (KTM) is a global initiative under IEEE MGA SAC, founded by IEEE AAST Alexandria Student Branch in 2022 with 3 successful national editions. IEEE KTM aims to promote digital productivity by recognizing the often-overlooked talent of fast and accurate typing. With a vision to highlight this essential skill, the program’s mission is to implement a secure, engaging, and skill-building competition platform for IEEE members worldwide to practice and compete.
The program will develop a dedicated website for practice and competition with an official brand identity and social media presence, where practice will be available at all times of the year for IEEE and non-IEEE members, and the competition will be held annually for active IEEE members with defined rules and prizes.
FAQ
The IEEE Keyboard Typing Marathon (KTM) is a global, 24-hour online competition that challenges IEEE Student and Professional Members to showcase their typing speed and accuracy through a 60-second typing test.
IEEE Student Members and IEEE Professional Members of all grades can participate in the IEEE Keyboard Typing Marathon. Each of the Student and Professional categories have their own leaderboard and prizes, so students compete with students, and professionals compete with professionals. This ensures a fair and engaging experience for all participants.
If you're not a member yet, you can join IEEE to become eligible.
The first year of the global IEEE KTM will be truly special, launching twice in 2026, first in April and second in November. Afterwards, the competition will be held annually in November. The exact day of the contest will be announced every year.
The competition runs for 24 hours, starting at 00:00 UTC and ending at 23:59:59 UTC on the event day. You are given unlimited attempts during that time, and only your best attempt is taken into the leaderboard.
All you need is an IEEE Membership. Then, login into the IEEE KTM website using your IEEE account and you'll be able to access the Contest Mode.
No, participating is free. You only need an active IEEE Membership.
The marathon is entirely online. You can participate from anywhere in the world. All you need is a computer and a stable internet connection. Not to mention… a keyboard :)
During the competition, you'll type randomized English words that do not include numbers or punctuation.
Yes! Practice is open to everyone (IEEE members and non-members) on the official platform. Enjoy a set of different typing modes to help you improve your speed and accuracy.
The contest is open for 24 hours, where you are given unlimited attempts, and only your best attempt is taken into the leaderboard.
Contestants are ranked by Words Per Minute (WPM) scores, and ties are broken by Characters Per Minute (CPM) scores.
The top 5 in each of the Student and Professional categories will be invited to verify their skills in a live, monitored typing session.
🥇 1st Place: $300
🥈 2nd Place: $200
🥉 3rd Place: $100
🎁 Top 5: IEEE KTM Merch Kit
All contestants will receive a digital certificate by email.
No. This is a solo competition. Typing on someone else's behalf is not allowed and may lead to disqualification.
No. Final results are announced within 1-2 weeks after the competition, to allow for the verification process of top contestants. All participants will be notified via email when verified rankings are published.
Make sure your internet connection is stable and that you're using a desktop browser. If issues persist, contact us at ktm@ieee.org with details about the issue.
Absolutely! IEEE Student Branches, Sections, and Subsections are encouraged to promote the event. It's a great way to foster community engagement and highlight IEEE activities. You can also join our team as an ambassador for the event, apply here!
Both! Besides being fun and competitive, it enhances typing speed and accuracy, valuable skills for engineers, developers, researchers, and anyone who works with a keyboard!
With tags, you can compare how fast you're typing in different situations. You can see your active tags above the test words. They will remain active until you deactivate them, or refresh the page.
presets
Create settings presets that can be applied with one click. Remember to edit your preset if you make any changes - they don't save on their own.
test difficulty
Normal is the classic typing test experience. Expert fails the test if you submit (press space) an incorrect word. Master fails if you press a single incorrect key (meaning you have to achieve 100% accuracy).
quick restart
Presstab,escorenterto quickly restart the test, or to quickly jump to the test page. These options disable tab navigation on most parts of the website. Using the "esc" option will move opening the commandline to thetabkey.
repeat quotes
This setting changes the restarting behavior when typing in quote mode. Changing it to 'typing' will repeat the quote if you restart while typing.
blind mode
No errors or incorrect words are highlighted. Helps you to focus on raw speed. If enabled, quick end is recommended.
always show words history
This option will automatically show the words history at the end of the test. Can cause slight lag with a lot of words.
single list command line
When enabled, it will show the command line with all commands in a single list instead of submenu arrangements. Selecting 'manual' will expose all commands only after typing>.
min speed
Automatically fails a test if your speed falls below a threshold.
min accuracy
Automatically fails a test if your accuracy falls below a threshold.
min burst
Automatically fails a test if your raw for a single word falls below this threshold. Selecting 'flex' allows for this threshold to automatically decrease for longer words.
british english
When enabled, the website will use the British spelling instead of American. Note that this might not replace all words correctly. If you find any issues, please let us know.
language
Change in which language you want to type.
funbox
These are special modes that change the website in some special way (by altering the word generation, behavior of the website or the looks). Give each one of them a try!
custom layoutfluid
Select which layouts you want the layoutfluid funbox to cycle through.
polyglot languages
Select which languages you want the polyglot funbox to use.
freedom mode
Allows you to delete any word, even if it was typed correctly.
strict space
Pressing space at the beginning of a word will insert a space character when this mode is enabled.
opposite shift mode
This mode will force you to use oppositeshiftkeys for shifting. Using an incorrect one will count as an error. This feature ignores keys in locationsB,Y, and^because many people use the other hand for those keys. If you're using external software to emulate your layout (including QMK), you should use the "keymap" mode - the standard "on" will not work. This will enforce opposite shift based on the "keymap layout" setting.
stop on error
Letter mode will stop input when pressing any incorrect letters. Word mode will not allow you to continue to the next word until you correct all mistakes.
confidence mode
When enabled, you will not be able to go back to previous words to fix mistakes. When turned up to the max, you won't be able to backspace at all.
quick end
This only applies to the words mode - when enabled, the test will end as soon as the last word has been typed, even if it's incorrect. When disabled, you need to manually confirm the last incorrect entry with a space.
indicate typos
Shows typos that you've made. "Below" shows what you typed below the letters, "replace" will replace the letters with the ones you typed and "both" will do the same as replace and below, but it will show the correct letters below your mistakes.
hide extra letters
Hides extra letters. This will completely avoid words jumping lines (due to changing width), but might feel a bit confusing when you press a key and nothing happens.
lazy mode
Replaces accents / diacritics / special characters with their normal letter equivalents.
layout emulator
With this setting you can emulate other layouts. This setting is best kept off, as it can break things like dead keys and alt layers.
code unindent on backspace
Automatically go back to the previous line when deleting line leading tab characters. Only works in code languages.
sound volume
Change the volume of the sound effects.
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play sound on click
Plays a short sound when you press a key.
play sound on error
Plays a short sound if you press an incorrect key or press space too early.
play time warning
Play a short warning sound if you are close to the end of a timed test.
smooth caret
The caret will move smoothly between letters and words.
caret style
Change the style of the caret during the test.
pace caret
Displays a second caret that moves at constant speed. The 'average' option averages the speed of last 10 results. The 'tag pb' option takes the highest PB of any active tag. The 'daily' option takes the highest speed of the last 24 hours.
repeated pace
When repeating a test, a pace caret will automatically be enabled for one test with the speed of your previous test. It does not override the pace caret if it's already enabled.
pace caret style
Change the style of the pace caret during the test.
live progress style
Change the style of the timer/word count during a test. "Flash" styles will briefly show the timer in timed modes every 15 seconds.
live speed style
Change the style of the live speed displayed during the test.
live accuracy style
Change the style of the live accuracy displayed during the test.
live burst style
Change the style of the live burst speed displayed during the test.
live stats color
Change the color of the progress, live speed, accuracy and burst text.
live stats opacity
Change the opacity of the progress, live speed, burst and accuracy text.
highlight mode
Change what is highlighted during the test.
tape mode
Only shows one line which scrolls horizontally. Setting this to 'word' will make it scroll after every word and 'letter' will scroll after every keypress. Works best with smooth line scroll enabled and a monospace font.
tape margin
When in tape mode, set the carets position from the left edge of the typing test as a percentage (for example, 50% centers it).
smooth line scroll
When enabled, the line transition will be animated.
show all lines
When enabled, the website will show all lines for word, custom and quote mode tests - otherwise the lines will be limited to 3, and will automatically scroll. Using this could cause the timer text and live speed to not be visible.
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always show decimal places
Always shows decimal places for values on the result page, without the need to hover over the stats.
typing speed unit
Display typing speed in the specified unit.
start graphs at zero
Force graph axis to always start at zero, no matter what the data is. Turning this off may exaggerate the value changes.
max line width
Change the maximum width of the typing test, measured in characters. Setting this to 0 will align the words to the edges of the content area.
font size
Change the font size of the test words.
keymap
Displays your current layout while taking a test. React shows what you pressed and Next shows what you need to press next.
keymap layout
Controls which layout is displayed on the keymap.
keymap style
keymap legend style
keymap show top row
keymap size
Change the size of the keymap.
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flip test colors
By default, typed text is brighter than the future text. When enabled, the colors will be flipped and the future text will be brighter than the already typed text.
colorful mode
When enabled, the test words will use the main color, instead of the text color, making the website more colorful.
auto switch theme
Enabling this will automatically switch the theme between light and dark depending on the system theme.
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key tips
Shows the keybind tips at the bottom of the page.
out of focus warning
Shows an out of focus reminder after 1 second of being 'out of focus' (not being able to type).
caps lock warning
Displays a warning when caps lock is on.
average
Displays your average speed and/or accuracy over the last 10 tests.
import/export settings
Import or export the settings as JSON.
animation fps limit
Limit the maximum fps for animations. Setting this to "native" will run the animations as fast as possible (at your monitor's refresh rate). Setting this above your monitor's refresh rate will have no effect.
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reset settings
Resets settings to the default. You can't undo this action!
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update account name
Change the name of your account. You can only do this once every 30 days.
set streak hour offset
Streaks reset at midnight UTC by default. If this is not convenient for you (for example if it means that streaks reset in the middle of the day), you can change the hour offset here. You can only do this once!
You have already set your streak hour offset to 0 .
opt out of leaderboards
Use this if you frequently trigger the anticheat (for example if using stenography) to opt out of leaderboards. You can't undo this action!
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reset personal bests
Resets all your personal bests (but doesn't delete any tests from your history). You can't undo this!
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Revokes all tokens connected to your account. Do this if you think someone else has access to your account. This will log you out of all devices.
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Completely resets your account to a blank state. You can't undo this action!
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