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Typing tutor: learn to touch type

Learn touch typing in English, Japanese romaji, Korean or Chinese pinyin with lessons, an on-screen keyboard that lights up the next key and a hands diagram for the finger; it runs in your browser and nothing you type is uploaded.

Course

Unit 1: Home row

Space starts once the typing area has focus; Esc quits at any time.

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Your results

Finish a lesson or a set to start your history. It stays in this browser.

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How to use Typing tutor

  1. 1

    Pick a course and a lesson

    English, Japanese romaji, Korean or Chinese pinyin: start with lesson 1, or choose a practice set, the weak-key drill or this week's check.

  2. 2

    Rest your fingers on the home row

    Feel the bumps on F and J. The on-screen keyboard lights up the next key and the hands diagram shows the finger to press it with.

  3. 3

    Press Space and type

    After a 3-2-1 countdown the first line appears. A wrong key does not move the cursor, so fix it with the right key and carry on.

  4. 4

    Read your score and repeat

    See your score, grade, keys per minute, accuracy and weak keys, then press R to go again or M to retry only the lines you missed.

Limits and Pro

Free with no sign-up: 4 courses with 92 lessons and 26 practice sets, a weekly 15-item check with a 240-second limit, adaptive weak-key drills and the last 300 results kept in this browser.

About Typing tutor

Typing tutor teaches touch typing: typing with all ten fingers while your eyes stay on the text. Below the practice line sits a model of the keyboard. The key you need next is filled and outlined, a second numbered key shows when Shift is needed, and a diagram of two hands marks the finger that should press it. Finger colours divide the keys into zones, and every key also carries a small finger number, so the zones read even in the colourless calm theme. Once you speed up, the keyboard can fade so that you stop looking at it.

There are four courses. English has 36 lessons from F and J through capitals, numbers and symbols to fluency drills. Japanese has 28 romaji lessons and 12 themed sets on a JIS keyboard, accepting every spelling an input method would. Korean has 18 dubeolsik lessons in the classic key-position order, and the page builds Hangul syllables from your keys without a Korean IME. Chinese has 10 pinyin lessons with tone-marked pinyin above the characters, ü typed as v.

Your score is keys per minute multiplied by accuracy cubed, which rewards clean typing over fast, sloppy typing, and maps to a grade from E- to SSS. The weak-key drill builds practice around the key you are least sure of, from your own timing and mistakes. Lessons, stars and statistics are kept in this browser only; there are no accounts and no rankings.

Privacy

Every keystroke is checked against the text inside this page and is never sent to our server or anyone else. Your settings, lesson stars, per-key timing statistics and the summaries of your last 300 runs are stored in this browser's local storage, and the Clear history button deletes them.

Features

Keyboard and hands guide

The next key lights up with its finger, Shift on the opposite hand, and finger zones that also work without colour.

Four courses

English, Japanese romaji, Korean dubeolsik and Chinese pinyin, with stars for accuracy and speed.

Weak-key drills

Practice text built around the keys you miss or hesitate on, from your own statistics.

Typing tutor: frequently asked questions

Why does the cursor stop when I press a wrong key?
Stopping on a mistake makes you correct it at once with the right finger, which is how the habit forms; leaving errors behind trains speed without accuracy. The wrong key flashes red with a cross on the keyboard, the miss is counted and charged to the key you should have pressed, so your weak keys show up in the results.
How is the score calculated?
Score is keys per minute times accuracy to the third power, rounded. Typing 300 correct keys in one minute with 15 misses gives 95.24 percent accuracy and a score of 259. Because accuracy is cubed, dropping from 98 to 90 percent costs more than a fifth of your score, so slowing down to type cleanly usually raises it.
Which finger should press each key?
Each hand rests on the home row: left little finger on A, then S, D and F, and the right index finger on J, then K, L and the semicolon. Each finger covers the keys above and below its home key, the index fingers also take the middle column, the thumbs press Space, and Shift is pressed with the opposite hand.
Do I need a Korean or Chinese input method for those courses?
No. The Korean course reads the physical keys and assembles the jamo into syllables itself, showing the same composition an IME would, so 간 turns into 가나 as you type. The Chinese course checks the pinyin letters and an optional Space after each word. If an input method is on anyway, the tutor reads the keys underneath and shows a notice.
How long does it take to learn touch typing?
Most learners know every key after two or three weeks of ten to fifteen minutes a day, typing slowly at first. Speed comes later: 30 to 40 words per minute after a month or two is common. Short daily sessions work better than long ones, and accuracy above 95 percent should come before pushing your pace.

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