Typing lessons
Two new keys at a time, starting where your index fingers rest. A lesson is passed at 90% accuracy — speed is not the point yet.
Each colour is one finger. The marked keys — A S D F and J K L ; — are home: every reach starts and ends there.
- 01F and J keys
key groups - 02D and K keys
key groups - 03S and L keys
key groups - 04A and semicolon keys
key groups - 05G and H keys
key groups - 06E and I keys
20 real words - 07R and U keys
23 real words - 08T and Y keys
53 real words - 09W and O keys
80 real words - 10Q and P keys
20 real words - 11V and M keys
47 real words - 12C and comma keys
52 real words - 13X and period keys
key groups - 14Z and slash keys
key groups - 15B and N keys
156 real words
How to sit and where to look
- Rest your fingers on the home row: left hand on A S D F, right hand on J K L and semicolon. F and J have a raised mark so you can find them without looking.
- Every key belongs to one finger. Reach for it and come straight back to the home row.
- Look at the screen, not at your hands. It feels slower for a few days and then it is faster for the rest of your life.
- Go for accuracy. Speed arrives by itself once the fingers know the way; bad habits arrive when you rush.
Keep going
Typing test
Gross and net WPM, accuracy and keystrokes per hour — the figures typing exams use.
Practice texts
Type the opening lines of classic books: real sentences, capitals and punctuation.
Weak keys
A drill built from the keys you miss most, worked out from your own tests.
Times tables
Each table with its patterns, a drill that returns to what you got wrong, and a 60-second speed test.