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Ch. 1: Jonathan Harker's Journal Segment 1 of 9
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Dracula is written as diaries, letters, and ship's logs — which makes it uniquely good typing practice. Every few pages the voice changes: Jonathan Harker's precise legal English, Mina's quick shorthand style, Van Helsing's broken, comma-heavy Dutch-accented speech. Your fingers never settle into a predictable rhythm, and that's exactly the point. Stoker's Gothic vocabulary — "Carpathians", "Nosferatu", "Whitby churchyard" — trains the rare letter combinations that random-word tests never touch. TypingProo draws three passages from the novel — about 660 words, roughly 16 minutes at 40 WPM — with progress saved locally in your browser after every passage. If you're preparing for a government typing exam, the epistolary format is the closest free practice you'll find to real exam passages — formal prose, heavy punctuation, and sustained 10–15 minute stretches. Begin with Harker's journal from Chapter 1.
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This practice set contains 3 passages from Dracula by Bram Stoker, split into 9 typing segments — about 659 words, roughly 16 minutes of typing at 40 WPM. Your position saves in your browser after every segment, so you can stop and resume without an account.
3 May. Bistritz. Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible.
— Dracula, Bram Stoker