Touch typing

Touch typing

Type with all ten fingers without looking at the keyboard. Short lessons, key by key, for free.

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Plan for today

About 10 min.

  1. Warm-up 2 min
  2. Weak keys 3 min
  3. Lesson 5 min

How to start

Sit up straight and rest your fingers on the middle row: left on A S D F, right on J K L ;. Feel the bumps on F and J – your index fingers always come back there. Every lesson highlights the key and the finger that presses it.

Start with the first lesson How our method works All lessons

Stage 1: home row

Fingers on the home keys: A S D F J K L ;, thumbs on the space bar. Then G, H, E, I.

Goal: 95% accuracy, 15 words per minute · lessons: 7

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Stage 2: all letters

Top and bottom rows – the most frequent letters first, then the comma and the full stop.

Goal: 95% accuracy, 20 words per minute · lessons: 9

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Stage 3: capital letters

Press Shift with the little finger of the other hand. Then the apostrophe and whole sentences.

Goal: 95% accuracy, 25 words per minute · lessons: 3

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Stage 5: numbers and symbols

Digits in pairs from the middle of the keyboard, then symbols with Shift: colon, question mark, exclamation mark, brackets, quotes, percent and @.

Goal: 95% accuracy, 20 words per minute · lessons: 12

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Stage 6: for programmers

Brackets [ ] and { }, _ *, < >, & \ |, $ # ^ and ` ~ in lines of real code, then Enter, Tab and whole snippets in JavaScript, PHP and Python.

Goal: 95% accuracy, 18 words per minute · lessons: 11

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