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Ch. 1: The Eve of the War Segment 1 of 9
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Wells narrates The War of the Worlds like a war correspondent filing dispatches under fire — and that journalistic urgency is what makes it distinctive typing practice. Sentences are declarative and driven, rarely subordinate-heavy, which trains a different rhythm from Gothic or Victorian prose. Technical vocabulary — "incandescent", "cylinder", "projectile", "Martian" — appears in action context rather than isolation, so letter combinations sink into muscle memory through reading. Geographic references — Woking, the Thames, Horsell Common — train proper noun entry with varied capitalisation across consecutive passages. The three passages here run about 620 words, roughly 16 minutes at 40 WPM. The relentless pacing makes it one of the most engaging texts in the library. The ideal follow-up after completing Wells' shorter The Time Machine.
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This practice set contains 3 passages from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, split into 9 typing segments — about 621 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.
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
— The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells