🎓 Learn touch typing

How each lesson works

Every lesson follows the same four steps, so the whole attention goes to the keys and not to the screen.

1. 1

   Explanation

   The teacher explains in a sentence or two which keys and which fingers come into play, with those keys inked on the keyboard.

2. 2

   Demo

   The keyboard types the exercise slowly, on a loop: you see which key goes next and which finger presses it.

3. 3

   With the keyboard

   You type the exercise with the keyboard on screen showing the next key and its finger. Mistakes stay on the line until you erase them.

4. 4

   No peeking

   The same keys again, without the keyboard on screen, in 3 rounds with the words in a new order each time, so you can't learn them by heart.

Three seals per lesson

A lesson is passed with 90% accuracy. Each one also has three wax seals to earn, and you can repeat it as often as you like to get the ones you missed:

• 95% accuracy or more
• The chapter's target speed
• Not a single mistake

Syllabus

Each chapter opens when the one before is passed.

1. 💪

   1. Foundations

   • Posture
   • The home row and its bumps
   • Thumbs and space
   • Which finger presses each key

2. 2. The home row

   • Index fingers: F J G H
   • Middle and ring: D K S L
   • Pinkies: A ;
   • Home row words
   • 🎓 Exam

3. 3. The top row

   • E I
   • R T U Y
   • W O Q P
   • Words with both rows
   • Correcting without looking
   • 🎓 Exam

4. 4. The bottom row

   • V B N M
   • C X comma and full stop
   • Z and dash
   • Pangrams
   • 🎓 Exam

5. 5. Capitals and signs

   • Capitals
   • ? ! ; :
   • Apostrophes
   • Enter and line breaks
   • 🎓 Exam

6. 6. Numbers and symbols

   • The number row
   • Common symbols
   • 🎓 Exam
7. 💨

   7. Fluency

   • The most used words
   • Common clusters
   • Reading ahead
   • Accuracy first
   • Stamina
   • 🎓 Exam

The method

Why the course is built this way:

• The home row as an anchor

  The eight fingers rest on the middle row and every key leaves from there and comes back. The bumps on F and J let you find it without looking.

• One finger per column

  Each finger rules a slanted column of keys. The keyboard in the lessons washes every key in the colour of its finger, the same on both hands.

• Accuracy before speed

  Without 90% accuracy a lesson is not passed, and one lesson doesn't even let you erase: a wrong key isn't written and the line waits for the right one. Speed comes later on its own.

• Repetition that can't be memorised

  The blind rounds shuffle the lesson's words every time, so you repeat the movements, not the sentence.

• A daily review of your weak keys

  Every key you press in the academy is counted. Each day you can review the ones you miss most, in a short text built for you.

• From drills to real texts

  It starts with letters and short words and ends with paragraphs, reading one word ahead and headlines from real news.

Exams, speed marks and graduation

Each chapter ends with an exam: a new text with the chapter's words, no keyboard on screen. The server writes the text and times it, so the result is real. To pass you need 90% accuracy and the chapter's speed.

The last exam, Fluency, uses real headlines, can be retaken forever and has speed marks above the pass mark:

• 30 wpm
• 40 wpm
• 50 wpm
• 60 wpm
• 70 wpm
• 80 wpm
• 100 wpm

🎓 Passing every chapter earns the graduation seal, with your seals, your best speed and your average accuracy.

The keyboard

The letters sit in three rows: the top row (Q W E R T Y), the middle row (A S D F) and the bottom row (Z X C V). Above them is the number row and below them the space bar. Each finger will look after its own small area of keys, so it never has to travel far.

Finger placement: the home row

Rest your fingers on the middle row: the left hand on A S D F and the right hand on J K L ;. This is the home row. Every key you press starts and ends there, so your fingers always know where they are.

The bumps on F and J

The F and J keys have a small bump. Your index fingers rest on them, so you can find the home row by touch, without looking down.

Thumbs and the space bar

Your thumbs rest on the space bar. Use whichever thumb feels natural to press it, while the other fingers stay on the home row.

Which finger presses each key

Each finger covers a slanted column of keys, from the number row down to the bottom row. The right index finger, for example, presses 7, U, J and M, and also the column next to it. Learning these columns is what lets you type without looking.

Typing without looking

Start slowly and keep your eyes on the screen. Accuracy comes first: if you make mistakes, slow down. Speed comes on its own after a few weeks of practice, and the average typist reaches about 40 words per minute.

Practise with pangrams

A pangram is a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet, so it trains every key at once. Try this one: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”.

Frequently asked questions