How quickly and accurately can you type in Deseret? Choose Copy Deseret to reproduce the text you see, or Roman to Deseret to transcribe a Roman-alphabet text into its equivalent form in the 1869 Deseret Alphabet Book of Mormon (BoM69). Each mode uses the same twelve passages from BoM69, graded by difficulty.
Transcription tests historical spelling as well as typing. A difference from the reference does not make your preferred spelling wrong. For this quiz, Roman-alphabet prompts have been aligned to BoM69.
Choose your test
Read the passage first. Timing begins with your first character and ends when you select Finish & score. You may correct mistakes. Match capitalization and punctuation; extra whitespace is ignored. Paste is disabled.
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Type the key labels or click the keys; Shift selects capitals and Alt/Option selects numbers and symbols. On narrow screens, scroll the keyboard sideways. About this keyboard.
Your results
Your text
BoM69 reference
Underlined red text marks extra or different characters in your answer. Underlined green text marks missing or different characters in the reference.
How speed, accuracy, and awards work
One standard word is five characters, including spaces and punctuation. Each Deseret letter counts once. Raw WPM uses the length of your submitted text; adjusted WPM subtracts one character for each insertion, omission, or substitution before calculating speed. Accuracy compares your final text with the complete reference, so omissions count as errors. Corrections made while typing cost time but do not count as final errors.
The high tier requires at least 95% accuracy and 30 adjusted WPM for copying, or 15 for transcription. The middle tier requires at least 90% accuracy and 15 adjusted WPM for copying, or 8 for transcription. Other results receive the practice tier. These are starting goals for this activity, not standardized proficiency levels. Compare scores within the same mode and difficulty.
Practice individual words in the writing quiz, review how to type, consult the experimental IDC keyboard, or try our typing game.