The Writing test measures how well your devices performs when working with documents. The test reflects the simple tasks you might perform on a mobile device such as adding text and images to a document as well as cutting, copying and pasting text within the document. 

The test uses the native Android EditText view and runs in portrait orientation. 

Document 1 is a 2.5 MB ZIP file containing a 100 KB text file and two 1.2 MB images. Document 2 is a 3.5 MB ZIP containing a 90 KB text file, a 1.6 MB image, and a 1.9 MB image.

Workload tasks

  1. Load, uncompress and display Document 1. 
  2. Load, uncompress and display Document 2.
  3. Copy all of Document 1 and paste it into the middle of Document 2. The combined document has around 200,000 characters.
  4. Save Document 2 text and images to a ZIP file and compress. The file is about 6 MB. 
  5. Cut around 1,700 characters from the middle of Document 2 and paste to the beginning of the document. Cut a further 1,200 characters from the middle and paste near the beginning.
  6. Type three short sentences near the start, middle and end of Document 2. The sentences range from 70 to 100 characters each.
  7. Insert a 1.3 MB image to the middle of Document 2.
  8. Save Document 2 text and images to a ZIP file and compress. The file is about 7.4 MB. 

Scoring

Writing score    =    2,700,000 × geomean(1/R1, 1/R2, 1/R3, 1/R4, 1/R5)

Where:
R1     =    The geometric mean of the loading times in tasks 1 and 2
R2     =    The geometric mean of the saving times in tasks 4 and 8 
R3     =    Time taken to copy and paste text to and from the clipboard in task 3
R4     =    The sum of the times taken to copy text to the clipboard, cut it from the document, and paste into the document in task 5
R5     =    Time to insert an image into the document in task 7