Typing statistics · macOS
Watch your
typing evolve.
Pulse charts your typing statistics — WPM, accuracy, and even the AI-filtered rate — across 24 hours, weeks, or the whole year. Spot your best hours, your slumps, and the real trend underneath.
Statistics
Pulse's real Statistics view — toggle metrics in the legend to overlay or isolate them.
What you can see
Five metrics, one timeline
WPM, CPM, KPM, accuracy and AI rate — each on its own scale, toggled in or out so you compare what you want.
The honest number
The synthetic-rate series shows how much of your “speed” was actually autocomplete or AI — then strips it out.
Any window
24 hours to all time. The dashed line marks your average so the trend reads at a glance.
How to read your typing statistics over time
A single WPM score tells you almost nothing. One good minute, one bad one, the words you happened to draw — it all averages into a number with no memory. Statistics over time give that number a shape: where you started, where you plateaued, and what your hands do on an ordinary Tuesday versus a deadline.
WPM, CPM, KPM — and why they disagree
The three speed metrics measure the same hands at different grains. WPM divides characters by five and treats them as words; CPM counts actual characters; KPM counts every keystroke, including the backspaces and modifiers that never reach the page. When KPM runs far ahead of CPM, you're correcting a lot — the gap is the cost of your mistakes, and the same leak a keyboard heatmap shows key by key.
The honest number
Autocomplete, paste, snippet expanders and AI can quietly inflate your speed by a third without your fingers doing the work. Pulse tracks that synthetic rate as its own series and subtracts it, so the line you watch is the one your hands actually earned. It's the same clean number that ranks you on the leaderboard — no tool is doing the typing for you.
Reading the window, not the spike
Switch from 24 hours to a year and the noise flattens into a trend. The dashed average line is your baseline; a week that sits above it is real progress, not a lucky session. Narrow the view further with filters — one app, one keyboard, work hours only — and the chart stops being a vanity metric and starts answering specific questions about how you type.
Speed, accuracy, and the rate that’s actually AI.
Every metric, on one honest timeline.
Typing statistics, answered.
What typing statistics does Pulse track?
Pulse charts your words per minute (WPM), characters per minute (CPM), keystrokes per minute (KPM), accuracy, and your AI/autocomplete rate — over 24 hours, a week, a month, a year, or all time. Below the chart it sums your average speed, total sessions, time typed and active days.
What is the AI / synthetic rate?
It is the share of keystrokes that came from autocomplete, paste, snippet expanders or AI — not your own hands. Pulse separates it out so your real speed isn’t inflated by your tools. No other typing tracker measures this.
Does Pulse record what I type?
No. Pulse counts that a key was pressed and when — never the letters, words or passwords. Everything stays in a local database on your Mac.
What is the difference between WPM, CPM and KPM?
WPM divides your characters by five and counts them as words. CPM counts the actual characters that reached the page. KPM counts every keystroke, including backspaces and modifiers that never become text — so when KPM runs well ahead of CPM, you are correcting a lot, and that gap is the cost of your mistakes.