CodStak Weekly Challenge #13: Typing Speed Tester

React Interview Question

Hey Coders,

Welcome to 13th edition of weekly challenge. This one is really intresting. You are going to build a Typing Speed Tester. This will be a React component with typescript.

Here’s the challenge description:

Objective: Build a real-time typing speed tester where users type a given sentence as fast as possible.

Requirements:

✅ Display a random sentence for the user to type.

✅ Track words per minute (WPM) and accuracy in real-time.

✅ Highlight correct & incorrect letters as the user types.

✅ Show a restart button to try again.

Bonus Features:

🚀 Add a countdown timer to limit the test duration.

🚀 Display live progress (e.g., percentage completed).

🚀 Implement a leaderboard (store top scores in localStorage).

👉 You may try the challenge here

This is going to be so much fun building this mini app and hope you will learn a lot with this challenge.

Well, that’s it from this week’s challenge. See you next week.

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