You're kind of repeating yourself inside and outside your while loop, so that can be condensed. Here's a more perlish way to do it. It confines the $word variable to the smallest possible scope, and uses a statement modifier after last to shorten things and make the logic clearer (in my opinion). 

while( my $word = <STDIN> ){
  chomp $word;
  last if $word eq 'done';
  $counter{$word}++;
}

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On your foreach loop, you can eliminate the if/else with a ternary operator:

for my $word (keys %counter){
  print "You typed $word $counter{$word} time" .($counter{$word}>1 ? '
+s' : ''). ".\n";
  # or
  printf "You typed %s %d time%s.\n", $word, $counter{$word}, ($counte
+r{$word}>1?'s':'');
}

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Aaron B.
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In reply to Re^3: 2 newby questions by aaron_baugher
in thread 2 newby questions by Socrates440

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