ACCURACY | SPEED |
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Accuracy: your corrected accuracy taking into account errors and corrections |
Speed: measurement of your typing speed |
Real accuracy: your uncorrected, raw accuracy |
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Minimum accuracy: minimum accuracy required to pass the lesson |
Speed requirement: minimum WPM required to pass the lesson |
Accuracy goal (implied): your accurracy goal should always be 100% |
Speed goal: the ideal speed at which you should type the lesson |
Stars are awarded based on a student's performance in each lesson. They are used to control whether the student can move on to the next lesson, or must retry for a better score. By default, students must earn at least 1 star to move to the next lesson. Teachers can customize the minimum star requirement by going to Classes Your class Settings.
When a student finishes a lesson, their accuracy and WPM are sent to our calculation engine which produces an overall score. The higher your score, the better your standing in the class scoreboard. Our scoring system is optimized to value accuracy over speed. Below are a few tips to help students improve their score:
The Perfect Score, which is represented by a blue ribbon on the lesson overview, can be achieved by typing at approximately 2.5 times the lesson's WPM goal and near perfect accuracy.
Each lesson has a defined minimum speed and accuracy required to pass. Instructors can modify that requirement in a few ways: