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Typing practice

Learn to touch type with lessons that add letters one at a time and give you more of the keys you find hardest, on your device. Free, with no account or uploads.

Learn the keys a few letters at a time

Each lesson uses real words made of the letters you have. The next letter comes in once every letter is typed at your target speed.

Lesson of 20 words, 6 letters

S comes in once every letter here has been typed 10 times at 35 words a minute. Most work: E.

  • e–
  • t–
  • a–
  • o–
  • i–
  • n–
  • slater
  • hlater
  • rlater
  • dlater
  • llater
  • ulater
  • clater
  • mlater
  • wlater
  • flater
  • ylater
  • glater
  • plater
  • blater
  • vlater
  • klater
  • xlater
  • jlater
  • qlater
  • zlater

Loading the words

The clock starts with your first key. Tab then Enter, or Esc, starts again.

How it works and help
Everything happens in your browser. Nothing you type is sent anywhere or kept.

A little help along the way

Follow these steps. Every option is explained underneath. Everything happens in your browser; nothing you type is sent anywhere.

  1. Choose how longPick 15 seconds, 30 seconds, 1 minute, 2 minutes or 5 minutes above the words. A minute is chosen already. Under More options, a test can end after a number of words instead.
  2. Choose what to typeCommon words are the thousand used most. Passages from books are real sentences with capitals and punctuation. Numbers are groups of digits, as in data entry.
  3. Start typingThe clock starts with your first key. Type each word and press Space to go on to the next; a wrong word can be gone back into with Backspace. On a phone, tap the words to bring up the keyboard.
  4. Read your resultYour words a minute and the share of keys you pressed right come first, then raw speed, consistency, a chart of every second with your mistakes, and the words you typed wrong.
  5. Go againTab then Enter, or Esc, starts a new test. Again gives you the same words, so you can see whether you did better; New text makes new ones. Watch it again plays your test back as it was typed.

Questions people ask

Which letters do the lessons start with?
E, T, A, O, I and N, the six most used in English. Each lesson uses real words made only of the letters you have, and gives more of the letter that needs most work.
When does the next letter come in?
Once every letter you have has been typed right at least ten times at your target speed, 35 words a minute unless you change it under More options. The page says which letter comes next.
Is my progress kept?
While the page is open. Nothing about your typing is sent anywhere or kept on your device, so closing the page starts the lessons again.

This page is the Typing test, opened for this one job; every other tool it has is one press away. Each of its settings is explained on the Typing test's own page.

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