Why is pasted content not counted in word statistics?

Pasted text contributes to a document’s current word count, but may not contribute to today’s typing count in Typing Statistics. The document count measures existing content; typing statistics measure writing activity over time. Press F7 to view typing statistics.

Why Are Large Pastes Ignored?

WonderPen records the change in word count when document content is saved. If the absolute change exceeds the ignore threshold, that change is excluded from the typing count. The default threshold is 100. This does not exclude every paste or count only text typed one character at a time.

For example, pasting 80 Chinese characters into an ordinary document will usually count, while adding 500 at once exceeds the default threshold and is ignored. The comparison uses the net change when saving; when replacing existing text, that may differ from the length of the pasted text. The calculation counts each Chinese character or English word as one, regardless of the status bar’s word/character display option.

This prevents large amounts of reference material from inflating today’s typing count, and large deletions during editing from reducing it. Deletions within the threshold reduce the current hour’s count, down to zero, without affecting earlier records.

How Can I Include Pasted Content?

If you wrote an article in another app and want it included in your typing count, open Settings → Advanced → Document Editing. Scroll down to Typing statistics, character change count ignores threshold, increase the value, then paste the text.

For example, before pasting about 2,000 words, set the threshold to 3,000. Raising it also allows larger deletions to affect the count. Restore the default afterwards if needed.

Changing the threshold affects future statistics only. It does not add previously ignored content to past records, and it does not change the document’s word count.

Documents marked as reference material, including their descendants, remain excluded regardless of the threshold. Text in memos and cards does not contribute to the document typing count either.