The Lighthouse Keeper’s Cat Story Typing Test
This printable story typing test is for students, adults, and anyone practicing typing with full paragraphs. It includes the story The Lighthouse Keeper’s Cat, about Juniper the cat, the lighthouse keeper, a stormy night, a rescue with the emergency lantern, and the fishermen’s sardine parcel. The sheet also has fields for Date, Time taken, Errors, and Net WPM.
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- 1 page
- US Letter — choose “Fit to page” for A4
- PDF, 49 KB
Free for personal, family and classroom use.
Use it as a timed typing exercise by reading the story and typing it by hand or on a keyboard. Write the date before you start, track your time and mistakes, then record your net WPM after you finish. It works well for repeated practice because the same passage can be typed again to compare results.
Good for
- Timed typing practice with a full story
- Track net WPM across repeated tries
- Classroom typing assessment sheet
Tip: Print single-sided so the timing and score fields stay easy to fill in.
6 files · PDF, XLSX
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Printable Story Typing Test Sheet
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Printable Story Typing Test Sheet
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