whytyping
30 lessons · 10 levels

Learn to touch type

Two to five minutes each, from the home row to the full keyboard. Pass a lesson at 92% accuracy to unlock the next. Keys shown for US (QWERTY), changed from Settings (the sliders icon).

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Up next · lesson 01 · 2 minF and JHome row: index fingersStart
Level 01

Home row

01F and JNext up · Home row: index fingers02D and KLocked · Home row: middle fingers03S and LLocked · Home row: ring fingers
Level 02

Home row complete

04A and ;Locked · Home row: little fingers05G and HLocked · Home row: index fingers reach in06Home row wordsLocked · Home row: words
Level 03

Top row, part 1

07E and ILocked · Top row: middle fingers08R and ULocked · Top row: index fingers09T and YLocked · Top row: index fingers reach in
Level 04

Top row, part 2

10W and OLocked · Top row: ring fingers11Q and PLocked · Top row: little fingers12Top row wordsLocked · Top row: words
Level 05

Bottom row, part 1

13V and MLocked · Bottom row: index fingers14C and ,Locked · Bottom row: middle fingers15X and .Locked · Bottom row: ring fingers
Level 06

Bottom row, part 2

16Z and /Locked · Bottom row: little fingers17B and NLocked · Bottom row: index fingers reach in18Full alphabetLocked · Full alphabet: words
Level 07

Capitals

19Left ShiftLocked · Capitals: left Shift20Right ShiftLocked · Capitals: right Shift21SentencesLocked · Capitals: sentences
Level 08

Punctuation

22' -Locked · Punctuation: apostrophe and hyphen23? !Locked · Punctuation: question and exclamation marks24: ;Locked · Punctuation: colon and semicolon
Level 09

Numbers

251 to 5Locked · Numbers: 1 to 5266 to 0Locked · Numbers: 6 to 027Numbers in textLocked · Numbers: in text
Level 10

Fluency

28Common wordsLocked · Fluency: common words29PhrasesLocked · Fluency: phrases30ParagraphsLocked · Fluency: paragraphs

How the path works

The thirty lessons are grouped into ten levels of three. The first two levels cover the home row, where your fingers rest. Levels three to six add the top and bottom rows a pair of keys at a time, and each of those levels ends with a lesson of real words built only from the keys you have met so far. The last four levels add capitals, punctuation and numbers, then finish with plain fluency practice.

Every lesson is six short lines with no clock. The pass mark is 92% accuracy, and speed is never part of it: a lesson typed slowly and cleanly passes, a fast one full of slips does not. If you miss the mark you keep your best attempt and try again as often as you like.

A finger guide sits under each lesson. It lights up the next key and colours the keyboard by finger, and it also names the key and the finger in text. You can hide it once you no longer need it. Lessons are defined by key position rather than by letter, so they adapt to US and UK QWERTY, AZERTY, QWERTZ, Dvorak and Colemak.

Locked lessons are still open: you can practise ahead, and the lesson unlocks properly once the earlier ones are passed. Your progress is stored in this browser, with no account.

Not sure where to begin? Read what touch typing is and why it works, warm up with the typing practice for beginners, or take a break with the falling words typing game.