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Welcome - course introduction
Touch typing course
Your account saves your results and progress. 3 days of the whole course, free and with no card.
About the course
Touch typing course
This lesson is for reading. You type in the course exercises - that's where you see your result after every attempt.
109 exercises - from the home row through capital letters to longer texts. 20 minutes a day is enough.
What an account gives you
- Results and progress saved lesson by lesson
- Error stats - see which letters you mix up most often
- The whole course for 3 days - free, no card required
- Move your results from this browser to your account
After that, $29.99 once, for good, with no renewals - with a certificate once you pass the test.
Welcome to the touch typing course.
I'll be your Personal Trainer. I'll guide you through every lesson, suggest how to practice, assess your progress and keep you motivated.
Do you know why you want to take this course? I suspect you do. But if you're not sure how much you can gain from learning to touch type, I'll try to clear up any doubts as we go along.
The basic course teaches the letters and the most common punctuation marks, such as the period and the comma. The rest of the course adds the less common letters, numbers, special characters and the numeric keypad. You'll find details of course access on the Pricing page.
The whole course has several dozen lessons. With course access, a passed typing test also earns you a certificate with your results. If you can already touch type, you can get your certificate sooner - just pass one of our tests. Details are on the Certificate page.
If you practice systematically, you can finish the full course within a month. To do that, you need to practice for at least an hour a day. If you don't have that much time, you can get similar results by following these steps:
- Practice for at least 20 minutes a day for 2 weeks*. That's enough to finish the basic course, which covers touch typing all the basic letters (except q, x and v).
- After those two weeks, the next exercises help you polish the skills you already have and learn new characters. This is when I suggest you switch to touch typing for everything you type, so you practice the new skill every day.
- After a month*, you can fully master touch typing.
Think about it: most of what you type is letters. In 2 weeks of practice you can master the basics of touch typing and use them in your daily work. Practicing this way outside the course also speeds up the rest of it and shortens the time it takes to master touch typing completely.
Did you know?
- Typing while looking at the keyboard gets you to about the speed of handwriting - around 30 WPM. With touch typing you can type up to 3 times faster (100 WPM).
- Touch typing makes your work more efficient: when you write on a computer, you can follow the text on the screen, and when you copy, you never have to look away from the original.
- Using all your fingers evenly, without moving your arms, protects you from fatigue and strain.
As your Personal Trainer, I'll show you your results after every exercise and test, and suggest what to work on to improve your skills even further. So don't wait - start the first lesson now.
Best regards,
Your Personal Trainer
* These are averages from our learners, so your own results may differ.
Try it without an account
These exercises work right away, no sign-up needed - try them to see what learning in the course is like.