Jane Austen, 1813. 61 chapters in 918 pages of about 125 words.
Elizabeth Bennet, the second of five sisters, meets the proud and wealthy Mr. Darcy, and both have to get over their first impressions. Jane Austen published it in 1813, and its opening sentence is one of the best known in English.
It is the longest of the four books, with 61 short chapters. Austen's sentences are balanced and precise, with careful punctuation, so typing it trains accuracy as much as speed. At a page a day it lasts most of a year.
At 40 words per minute the whole book takes about 51 hours of typing. Type a few pages a day and the book keeps your place.
How it works
Press Start and the first page appears as a test. Type it as you would any test: the clock starts with your first key, and at the end of the page you see your speed, your accuracy and the keys that slowed you down. Press Enter for the next page. If you stop, the book opens at the same page next time you come back in this browser.
Chapters
Chapter 1 (7 pages)
Chapter 2 (7 pages)
Chapter 3 (13 pages)
Chapter 4 (9 pages)
Chapter 5 (8 pages)
Chapter 6 (17 pages)
Chapter 7 (17 pages)
Chapter 8 (16 pages)
Chapter 9 (16 pages)
Chapter 10 (18 pages)
Chapter 11 (12 pages)
Chapter 12 (5 pages)
Chapter 13 (12 pages)
Chapter 14 (9 pages)
Chapter 15 (14 pages)
Chapter 16 (25 pages)
Chapter 17 (10 pages)
Chapter 18 (37 pages)
Chapter 19 (14 pages)
Chapter 20 (12 pages)
Chapter 21 (15 pages)
Chapter 22 (13 pages)
Chapter 23 (12 pages)
Chapter 24 (16 pages)
Chapter 25 (11 pages)
Chapter 26 (15 pages)
Chapter 27 (9 pages)
Chapter 28 (11 pages)
Chapter 29 (17 pages)
Chapter 30 (9 pages)
Chapter 31 (12 pages)
Chapter 32 (11 pages)
Chapter 33 (15 pages)
Chapter 34 (15 pages)
Chapter 35 (21 pages)
Chapter 36 (14 pages)
Chapter 37 (10 pages)
Chapter 38 (8 pages)
Chapter 39 (12 pages)
Chapter 40 (13 pages)
Chapter 41 (17 pages)
Chapter 42 (11 pages)
Chapter 43 (36 pages)
Chapter 44 (16 pages)
Chapter 45 (12 pages)
Chapter 46 (21 pages)
Chapter 47 (31 pages)
Chapter 48 (17 pages)
Chapter 49 (17 pages)
Chapter 50 (16 pages)
Chapter 51 (15 pages)
Chapter 52 (23 pages)
Chapter 53 (24 pages)
Chapter 54 (11 pages)
Chapter 55 (19 pages)
Chapter 56 (22 pages)
Chapter 57 (12 pages)
Chapter 58 (19 pages)
Chapter 59 (21 pages)
Chapter 60 (11 pages)
Chapter 61 (10 pages)
Questions
Is the text complete?
Yes, every chapter. Quotation marks, dashes and accented letters are written as an ordinary keyboard types them.