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Welcome to Touch Typing Study!

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Improve your typing speed and accuracy by 10 minutes daily exercises.

• Learn keyboarding online
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• Be more productive
• Try different keyboard layouts

Variety of courses

Learn basic touch typing skills. These typing lessons are dedicated to people who want to start learning how to type correctly without looking at the keyboard.

Learn advanced touch typing skills. Set of typing lessons that introduce capitalization, punctuation, and number row. It will make you sophisticated typists.

Practice typing English ngrams. The most effective way to improve typing speed by repeating the most used continuous letter sequences.

Famouse law quotes

Practice famouse law quotes. This course is dedicated to a legal typist who wants to take action and type faster.

Glossary of Legal Terms

Another set of legal terms to improve keyboard skills. This one is the list of 200+ legal terms.

List of Latin legal terms

The list of 300+ Latin legal terms for daily typing practice.

Set of 60 the most common latin legal brocards.

Anatomy glossary drill for health workers. The massive list of terms with descriptions.

Infectious Disease

Infectious disease drill.

Medications

List of 200 most used medications to practice typing prescriptions.

Typing lessons for students to practice typing geographical locations. Containing random sets of states, cities, and world capitals.

Improve typing mathematical formulas, symbols, and numbers. Practice for intense math typists.

Business Jargon

Comprehensive typing course for practicing business typing skills. Dedicated mostly to improve the typing speed of office workers.

Reinforce your excel skills with good keyboard skills.

Words and ngrams

Practice 3000 the most common English words together with ngrams. It is an even more effective typing course for learning how to type faster.

Practice touch typing by writing funny exercises. Improve your typing speed by rewriting funny sentences and quotes. E.g., Murphy's laws, why did the chicken cross the road.

EcmaScript 6 examples. Javascript programming typing practice dedicated to frontend developers to improve their coding speed.

Practice typing HTML structures. Focus on markup specific characters and char connections.

CSS 3 examples. Cascading style sheets exercises for improving CSS specific syntax.

Multiple keyboard layouts

With The Typing Cat you can learn following keyboard layouts:

Qwerty is the most common widespread modern-day keyboard layout. It was designed based on a layout created for the Sholes and Glidden typewriter in 1873.

Dvorak was created in 1930 and patented in 1936 by Dr. August Dvorak. It proponents claim this layout uses less finger motion, increases typing rate and reduces errors compared to Qwerty.

Colemak is a keyboard layout created for touch typing in English. It is designed to be a practical alternative to the Qwerty and Dvorak keyboard layouts. It was released on 01-Jan-2006 and boasted impressive metrics in terms of finger travel, hand alternation, and same finger frequency. Colemak is the 3rd most popular keyboard layout for touch typing in English, after QWERTY and Dvorak.

Workman is a keyboard layout optimized for horizontal and vertical finger stretching. It accounts for wrist movement to the middle columns and the reaching and folding preferences of each finger. Workman was created and released by OJ Bucao on Labor Day in honor of all who type on keyboards for a living. See more on www.workmanlayout.com .

and many more Dvorak Programmer , Workman Programmer , Azerty , Qzerty , Qwertz , Qwpr , Capewell , Asset , Norman , Minimak-4 , Minimak-8 , Minimak-12 , Tarmak-1 , Tarmak-2 , Tarmak-3 , Tarmak-4

Different themes

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Typing lessons

Free typing lessons.

The typing lessons are structured to provide a gradual and efficient path for improving your typing skills. The lessons are designed to take you from keyboard typing basics, starting with keys near the keyboard's center and gradually advancing to less approachable keys that require using your weaker fingers, e.g., typing with the little fingers to reach the outer regions of the keyboard. Therefore, starting your typing course with your first lesson is strongly recommended. Then, move on to the next typing lessons and complete them in ascending order.

The keyboard typing lessons begin with fundamental exercises that perfect the typing technique using a specific group of keys that are somehow related - they are next to or opposite each other or concern specific types of keyboard keys, e.g., only numeric keys. The typing lessons are ordered from the easiest to the most complex. This systematic approach empowers you to establish muscle memory and become well-acquainted with the keyboard layout. Once you have mastered a given group of keys, you will smoothly move on to the next set of keyboard keys, where you will further improve your touch typing skills. Such a course's structure provides a solid foundation in learning touch typing, ensuring greater speed and accuracy as you progress through the typing course.

The touch typing course is free if you're wondering. You can practice as long as you want... A little advice: if you get bored with the touch typing course, switch to another type of exercise at least for some time - try the text typing master section or play a typing game .

Touch typing course structure

The touch typing course consists of multiple lessons grouped in blocks. After several typing lessons, there is a summary of these lessons and another summary that concerns the same keys but includes capitalized letters. In the case of some languages, there may be only one summary.

• Typing lessons for specific keyboard characters
• Typing lessons summary
• Typing lessons for most common words

The most basic typing lessons involve practicing several particular characters. After a few such lessons, a summary checks if you have mastered touch typing of characters taught in the summarized typing lessons. After a standard summary, there is a summary of the same lessons that involve practicing mostly typing capital letters. The final lessons concentrate on common words for a given language, which teach how to master all letters on the keyboard.

Let's learn some details about the typing lessons.

Typing lessons of particular keys

These are the most basic keyboard typing lessons. They concentrate on the typing exercise of several characters. These lessons are easily distinguishable by small hand icons.

Some of the lesson titles contain arrows. This means your finger should travel from a key in the keyboard home row to press a given key. The arrow reflects the direction.

The first lessons of the touch typing course concern typing letters. After all letters are covered, we concentrate on numbers.

For sure, the most difficult typing lessons are the ones concerning special characters. These keyboard typing lessons vary the most depending on the keyboard you use. For instance, the "backslash" ("\") can be on the top left above the Enter key; on others, below the Enter key - on the bottom left of the keyboard. These layouts can be different within the same language.

Efficiently typing special characters is significant for programmers who use them in coding. Most people, however, only need to know how to type some basic special characters like brackets, comma, dot, etc.

Summary of the typing lessons

Summaries of the typing lessons are usually after four lessons. They concern all the keys that have been practiced in the previous lessons.

These keyboard typing lessons contain words built from the letters taught in the summarized lessons. If there are too few letters to construct a proper amount of words, we take up to 2 letters from previously completed lessons for a given word. This feature might be considered a bug in the typing lessons, which it is not.

There are two types of keyboard typing lesson summaries: lessons for lowercase characters only and lessons concerning capital letters. The typing lessons that consider capital letters teach you to type faster by repeating a couple of times a single capital letter. These typing lessons require typing common capitalized words.

Keyboard typing lessons of most common words

Once you have established a solid foundation of touch typing when exercising on the most basic lessons, you will advance to the lessons, focusing on the most common words. Typing common words repetitively is an effective way to increase speed and accuracy. This is because, in real-world typing, we often use common words that form the backbone of our communication. By practicing these words, you will develop muscle memory and be able to type them without thinking, allowing you to focus on the less common words and complex sentences that require more attention and precision.

Practicing typing common words in separate lessons of the touch typing course is crucial to typing them faster. The top 100 words, known as the "core words," make up about 50% of written English. Individuals use a relatively small percentage of the total vocabulary in everyday conversation or writing. Roughly 90-95% of spoken and written communication in English comprises the most common 1,000 words. That is why learning by doing the typing lessons of the most common words is so important to increase your typing speed and accuracy. Other languages may have a more robust vocabulary than English. Still, the amount of the most common words in these languages should not differ much. No matter how complicated the language is, the conclusion is that keyboard typing lessons of the most common words are worth practicing.

Accuracy and speed in the typing lessons

While taking our free-of-charge touch typing lessons, it is critical to remember that accuracy is more important than speed, especially during the initial learning phase. Mistyping letters or other characters can consolidate faulty typing habits. Repetitive typing errors can be challenging to correct later. Therefore, your primary focus should be on pressing the correct keys consistently.

Typing speed is a skill that naturally develops with time and practice. Prioritizing accuracy over speed allows you to cultivate a solid foundation of touch typing skills. It would be best to consistently press the correct keys when training within the typing lessons. This way, your fingers learn their positions, allowing for increasing typing speed without compromising precision.

As you navigate our typing lessons, remember that slow and steady wins the race. Take time to develop accurate typing skills; in due course, you will significantly improve your speed and accuracy. Commit to regular practice with the typing lessons and become proficient.

Frequency of practicing touch typing

Practicing fast typing techniques with the AgileFingers touch typing course can sometimes be tiring. Lessons are quite monothematic as they involve a lot of repetitive keyboard typing activity. Unfortunately, developing muscle memory effectively is connected with repeating the same activities. When you type the same key frequently, your muscles get used to its position.

Spending time on the typing lessons is vital, especially if you begin learning touch typing. It is hard to say how much time you should sacrifice for the typing lessons as different people have different preferences and needs. If you are going to practice every day, and you do not have too much time for practicing, spend at least 10 minutes a day on the typing lessons. Typing for this short time should not bore you too much, even if it means always typing the same characters. Touch typing is learned in the typing lessons through the repetition of pressing the same key.

If you need breaks from the typing lessons, and you have already done all the lessons, try typing one of the text fragments or playing a touch typing game.

What to practice after the typing lessons

Once you feel confident typing and know where each finger is, you can still do the lessons of the touch typing course. This way, you should increase your typing speed. However, the touch typing course is the most important at the beginning of your typing education. When you type accurately without looking at the keyboard, you can concentrate on typing texts and the lessons that teach you how to type the most common words. You also can play some touch typing games more often if it motivates you to practice.

It is also a good idea to do the typing test from time to time to check if the exercises you do increase your speed.

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Practice typing the right way

Here you will learn how to use our typing tutor to practice even more efficiently.

The guide to our typing tutor

To use our online typing tutor, you don't have to read these instructions first. However, many users have asked us how to use it optimally in order to learn typing as efficiently as possible. In this guide we will therefore give you some tips and best practices.

1 Typing lessons

We offer a variety of different typing lessons , which are suitable for you, regardless of your current typing skills.

Where should I begin?

If you have not yet typed with all 10 fingers, you should first limit yourself to typing lessons for the starting position and basic row. In these exercises you don't have to move your fingers much and can get used to press the keys with each of your fingers.

When you feel comfortable with typing using all your fingers you should start exercises with other keyboard rows and practice the finger movements. Always make sure that your hands remain relaxed in the starting position and do not cramp when you press a key.

Which typing lessons are suitable for me?

Beginners, for whom the use of all 10 fingers is still very unusual, we recommend to start with the warm-up exercises. Here the key combinations are not yet so demanding and you get a feeling for the finger position, the key positions and the typing movements.

If you are already a bit more confident and want to learn to type quickly, you should concentrate on the word exercises and go through them in order. Starting from the basic row, you learn new keys step by step using real words and are not directly overwhelmed with a multitude of keys at the beginning.

Advanced users should also do the practical exercises in addition to the word exercises. These offer you variety and train specific frequently used words.

The finger exercises consist of more sophisticated key combinations with which you can train and further develop your typing skills. The hand exercises are structured in the same way as the finger exercises. They are the best choice if you want to focus on a weaker hand.

And don't forget: As a registered user you can also create your own typing lessons, which you can optimally tailor to your requirements.

When should I start a new exercise?

This decision depends on your training goals. For example, if you plan on typing safely at 50 words per minute, you should repeatedly exceed 50 words in an exercise before starting a new exercise.

Note, however, that the exercise time also plays a role. If you manage 50 words per minute during a one-minute typing practice, this does not necessarily mean that you can keep up this performance even during a five-minute typing practice. If you reach your goal with short typing units, increase the exercise time before you move on to the next typing lesson.

The typing lessons overview shows you how many different characters are used in the exercise text. The more characters used, the more challenging the practice is.

2 Practice time

How much time you should spend with your typing practice is difficult to generalize. It depends on how fast you can type at the moment, what your goal is, how fast you want to progress and how much time you have available to learn to type.

So unless you're in a hurry, it's no problem if you're only doing short exercises. The only important thing is that you should practice regularly and stay tuned for the long term. It is best to plan regular exercise times in your everyday life, e.g. daily 15 minutes or min. 1 hour per week.

You can check your daily practice times and your progress at any time in the statistics.

3 Stay tuned

As already mentioned, one of the most important points to become really good in typing is your personal stamina. As with most activities that we first have to learn, the initial motivation is usually high, but often tips over after a certain time if there are not enough successes quickly.

Even if other providers like to advertise that they could teach you typing in one day - our brain needs time to learn the key positions and movement sequences and needs relaxation phases in order to store them in the subconscious.

This is exactly what our user statistics show: Many users abandon their undertaking after a short time. But if you stay on top of it for a long time, you will get better and better over time and will be able to type much faster than before:

The periods of time given here are only examples to illustrate that a little more time should be planned for learning to type fast. The actual duration strongly depends on your daily training time and other factors.

4 In daily life

As soon as you have mastered typing with 10 fingers to some extent, you should - as far as possible - apply it consistently in everyday life and not fall back into your old typing technique.

As soon as you use it for your daily paperwork, the time required for this work will increase, but you will also automatically increase your practice time significantly and get used to the new technique much faster.

5 Typing speed

The question of what typing speed you should achieve is also very individual: Do you just want to improve your typing skills a little, or do you want to become a professional? Do you work many hours a day on the computer, or only occasionally?

Our recommendation: Do our typing test to determine your current typing speed. Then set realistic targets for how fast you want to type and how much time you can spend on practice typing, and keep adapting this target to your progress.

And the most important basic rule: Don't try to type as quickly as possible right from the start, but try to type as accurate and error-free as possible. The speed comes automatically as soon as the key positions have internalized.

But which typing speed is sufficient?

This rating scale helps you to better assess your skills. For example, if you want to achieve a very good typing speed, you should be able to type all exercises with at least 40 words per minute and achieve this value in your overall statistics.

* The question of which typing speed is to be evaluated how can vary depending on the work and task area. Our scale serves only as a rough guide.

The overall statistics also include all older exercise results, which means that your progress is not as quickly noticeable as in the individual exercise results. But it's the best way to see if your increased typing speed has really consolidated.

Our typing practice will show you an "virtual" keyboard under the exercise texts. This supports you in typing characters without having to look away from the screen. Thus you are able to type faster from the beginning and can easier remember the positions of the characters.

If your typing skills are already advanced, you can adjust the keyboard display to further enhance the learning effect.

7 Typing errors

Remember that it is first a question of accurate typing and only then of typing speed. This is because the subsequent correction of errors takes a lot of time under real conditions. So try to make as few typos as possible from the beginning.

If you type the wrong key during an exercise, exactly one error is noted and the recording is stopped until you press the correct key. This means that it will not register multiple typos if you notice the error after a delay.

You can adjust the behavior of your typing practice by different settings. You can find the settings to the right of the exercises in the sidebar or under "settings" in your user account.

To find out what the different settings exactly do, go to the settings page in your user account and move the mouse over the question mark to the right of the setting.

Settings can only be adjusted if no exercise is running. To cancel a running typing lesson, click on the white area in which the exercise text is displayed and then on "cancel".

9 Statistics

The statistics show you detailed information about the exercises you have completed so far. You can use these to practice typing in an even more targeted way.

The overview at the top of the page shows your average typing speed and error rate, as well as your total exercise time spent so far. These values are the best way to see your long-term progress.

The "exercises" tab shows the results of your last exercises. Here you can see how your typing skills have developed at short notice and whether, for example, you are making progress in a special typing lesson.

The "progress" tab shows your daily results (words per minute and error rate) as well as the time you spent on your typing practice. Here you can easily see your medium-term progress and, for example, check whether you are keeping to your intended exercise time.

The "error" tab shows all the characters you typed incorrectly. For example, you can recognize which characters you mistype most often in order to train them specifically.

To access your exercise results from anywhere, you should create an user account at TypingAcademy . The local exercise results are only available from one browser at a time.

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Typing Practice

Practice typing great quotes from great books and stimulate your mind while exercising your fingers! Learn to type faster as you apply the technique taught in our free touch typing lessons .

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Typing Practice Tips

Make the most of your typing practice! The fastest typists recommend these tips to improve your typing speed and accuracy:

1. Learn to touch type.

Touch typing is a typing technique in which you always use the same finger to type each key, without looking at the keyboard. It takes some practice to learn, but training these consistent finger motions will enable you to type much faster than you could otherwise. The How-to-Type.com typing lessons will teach you to touch type using the standard QWERTY typing technique. The lessons consist of basic typing and finger training exercises to guide you through the skills for typing each key.

Once you have learned the technique you can practice your typing here on this page to boost your speed and accuracy. Your fingers will learn to strike the correct keys automatically and you won’t need to stop to find them on the keyboard. Your mind will be free to think about what you are typing instead of where the keys are. With routine typing practice, you will thoroughly master the skill and become more productive at everything you do at the keyboard!

2. Minimize your hand movements and physical effort.

Practice keeping your fingers positioned on the home row, curved slightly down so that you can easily extend them to type the keys on the rows above and below with minimal movement. Let the palms of your hands float just above the keyboard and rest your thumbs on the space bar. Strike the keys with a quick and light touch.

It is also a good practice to maintain a relaxed and comfortable posture to minimize muscle strain and fatigue. Raise the height of your seat, or stand if necessary so that your arms and hands are resting comfortably down at the keyboard and your eyes are glancing down at your screen. Adjust your screen so that you can clearly see what you are typing without straining your eyes and neck. As you practice typing, remember that you will carry the habits you develop now with you into the future, whenever you type on a keyboard.

3. Practice typing for accuracy, not speed.

If you are making mistakes, slow down. You will not get faster by making lots of typos because it will take more time to go back and fix them all. Furthermore, practicing poor technique will impede your progress by reinforcing your mistakes and bad habits. Typing practice is an exercise, not a race. Type precisely at a rate that you are comfortable with. Your speed will naturally increase as your typing skills

4. Visualize as you type.

You will find this tip most useful once you have confidently learned the positions of all the keys and are practicing to increase your typing speed. Think about the words just ahead of where you are typing and imagine your fingers moving across the keyboard to type them. Your typing will really begin to flow when you can achieve this.

If you are just learning the keys and not quite ready for this, you can employ the power of visualization in your practice by imagining each letter on the keyboard and your finger moving to it before you type it.

5. Maintain your focus on typing.

Don’t practice in a noisy environment. Eliminate distractions. You are more likely to make mistakes if you are distracted, and you do not want to practice making mistakes that would be counterproductive to your goals. If you find your concentration drifting, try to regain focus or consider taking a break and coming back to your typing practice at a better time.

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10 Best Programs: Typing Lessons for Kids

W hat typing programs and typing lesson websites are recommended by librarians, teachers, parents, and students? Discover the best typing (keyboarding) lessons with step-by-step instruction, repetition, and fun!

Why do kids need typing lessons?

Why do kids need to learn typing? It’s not just about typing skills or typing speed, but it’s about growing this necessary skill to use the keyboard for academic and future work success/

The benefits for kids include getting thoughts down on paper faster, building efficacy that they can accomplish challenging goals, building speed of processing, gaining the ability to edit quickly, developing less aversion to writing , spending less time on school work, improving fine motor skills, and improving spelling.

Touch typing (keyboarding) is a BIG improvement over hunt and peck methods kids develop.  According to this article , touch typing is an example of cognitive automaticity which means we don’t have to think about what we’re doing.  This frees up our working memory to use our brains for higher-level thinking.

Honestly, I think typing instruction should be a required class for kids! In my experience, my high school touch typing class was THE BEST and MOST USEFUL class I took in high school. (Also, Home Ec– remember those days? I learned how to boil an egg!)

That’s why I signed my kids up for an in-person touch-typing class one summer of middle school. And the class paid off big time because almost everything they do in high school and in university requires a keyboard. Being able to type means they can get their thoughts down on paper faster and finish sooner.

Consider these keyboarding benefits:

• typing well lets you get your thoughts on paper faster
• typing helps you finish your assignments faster

I’ve learned that around 8 or 9 years old is a good age to start typing lessons. For one, kids’ hands are big enough to reach the keys on the keyboard. This is also a good age because a child’s hand-eye coordination will improve quicker than at younger ages.

And even though their hands are small, according to my daughters’ typing teachers, we type from our shoulders, not our hands. This makes it possible to learn typing in early elementary grades.

What is Touch Typing?

With touch typing, keyboarding becomes a fluid movement where you don’t need to look where your hands are.

Teach beginners the home row keys and use a keyboard that has bumps on the f and j keys OR add your own bumps with small triangle stickers. My children’s typing teachers told the kids to make their hands into tiger claws with “thumbs kissing.”

So kids don’t look at their hands, cover the keyboard with the lid of a cardboard box. This will help your kids look at the screen as they slowly learn the entire keyboard and increase in difficulty levels.

My kids progress through the keyboard’s lines (middle, bottom, top) and the individual keys.

Don’t let your kids advance on new keys until they’ve shown mastery of the first keys taught.

Learning Disabilities & Advocacy

We need to help kids with output — to know what to do with the input they are reading or hearing.

This skill is essential for all learners but especially children with learning differences .

If you have a child whose handwriting means they turn in incomplete work, or it limits what they produce in school, consider typing lessons and allowing them to use a keyboard for school. (Either a laptop or a Bluetooth-enabled keyboard with a tablet.)

But . . . what if your child’s teachers disagree about allowing a keyboard?

Advocate with information.

Track how long your child takes for homework with a keyboard and without a keyboard. (Information is power!)

Get a writing sample written by hand and another typed on a keyboard. Often because of output possibilities with the keyboard, the difference is so notable that it will make your point. (One sentence by hand versus a paragraph with keyboarding?)

Typing Programs & Typing Lessons for Kids

Many of these free typing programs also offer a paid version — or a reduced subscription rate for educators.

Typing.com 

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Typing.com is one of the most popular typing program choices for teachers and librarians to teach kids keyboarding skills.  The benefits of this program are that it tracks student progress and is compatible with Google classroom. Teachers and librarians surveyed preferred this site most of all. Because there are ads, they can make the program crash, according to one teacher.

Popular with many classrooms, you can use the free version or paid version. The program has young children begin learning where the letters are located and mouse skills. Use the free for these younger kids. For more advanced options, then try the paid subscription. It will give you more practice options and practice games, and you can track student progress.

Typing Club

Typing Club is one of the most popular typing programs for kids that many librarians use. You can get it for free with ads or pay $4 a student and use it without ads. This program can track student progress which librarians and teachers prefer. You’ll be able to view which typing lessons each child has mastered.

Dance Mat Typing

Fun and popular, this is a fabulous typing game choice with amazing graphics from the BBC with skill-level games kids will enjoy.

This is FUN, and elementary students love it. It’s a typing game that provides kids with practice typing. It’s not as instructive as the other programs, so use it with other typing programs that are more instructional. Typing.com includes the racing game NitroType — which kids love.

Keyboarding without Tears

Not many educators use this website, but it was mentioned by one librarian I spoke with. Do you use it?

More Keyboarding Websites

Typing Games from Slime Kids (free typing games online)

ABCya Typing Game (free typing game online)

Type Kids (paid typing website for kids to learn typing)

Which typing programs do you use?

When did you start typing lessons with your kids or students?

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