This is a mock examination at 70 WPM entitled "Getting around the city centre."

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You may have noticed the mock, as presented, contained three two-word phrases written out individually (even more, less than, skip past).

If you did not catch them the first time, please revisit the dictation and see if you can find them.

Below, we present grouping alternatives for each.

These examples serve as a reminder there are usually simple ways to speed up your writing, and once learned, will serve you well for years.

Slightly more than 82% of the words in this mock are in the NGSL Top 1,000 list.

NGSL 1k words: a, about, air, all, am, and, are, around, as, at, be, because, been, behind, being, but, by, capital, carried, cent, centre, city, controlled, cutting, day, days, do, driving, during, even, evening, fact, fallen, female, for, good, green, hand, has, have, help, here, i, in, increased, instead, interesting, into, is, it, know, lack, least, less, lights, likely, little, longer, made, main, may, men, more, most, much, my, name, note, number, of, off, on, one, other, our, out, particularly, past, people, per, population, possible, present, proved, put, recent, recently, reduce, remains, report, research, rest, road, same, should, shown, shows, streets, such, suffer, surprised, take, talk, tests, than, that, the, they, things, time, times, to, today, travel, trips, try, use, wait, walking, way, we, when, women, you

NGSL 2k words: counted, cycle, dangerous, enable, peak, route, routes, safe, traffic, vehicle

NGSL 3k words: exposure, found, pollution, whilst

NAWL words: published, skip

Supplemental words: fifty, five, forty, thirty, three, twenty

Off-list: best, colin, commute, commuting, cyclists, fumes, harassment, intake, junctions, lanes, motorists, polluted, rider, segregated, stationary, walkers