Free typing practice · 50 touch typing lessons Type faster without looking.
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A word is five characters, spaces and punctuation included, so long and short words count the same.
Where do you want to start?
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Learn from zero
Two graded courses, fifty lessons in all, from resting your fingers on the home row to holding a steady pace through long passages. Each lesson opens once you pass the one before it.
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Test my speed
Dedicated typing tests, timed from 15 seconds to 10 minutes, plus number, symbol and keystrokes-per-hour tests for data-entry work. Each one ends with your speed, your accuracy and a second-by-second graph.
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Play
Short arcade games that use the same engine, so playing counts as practice rather than a distraction.
How your typing is measured
Everything you type here — in the practice box at the top of this page, in a lesson or in a game — is scored by the same engine, in the same way. The clock starts on your first key rather than when the page loads, so reading ahead costs you nothing. You can practise against a timer of 15, 30, 60 or 120 seconds, or to a set count of 10, 25, 50 or 100 words, on common words, a written passage or text you paste in yourself, and add punctuation and numbers once plain words stop being a stretch.
Speed is given in words per minute, and a word is always five characters, spaces and punctuation included, not whatever happens to sit between two spaces. A fixed length stops a text full of short words from flattering your score. Strictly, we count grapheme clusters, the units a reader sees as single letters. For English those are simply characters; the distinction keeps the rule honest in scripts where one visible letter is built from several code points.
Gross WPM is all the text you produced divided by the time it took. Net WPM takes one word off for every mistake still in the text when you stop, so it reflects text you could actually use. Accuracy is the share of your keystrokes that were right, which means a mistake you went back and fixed still counts against it. Consistency describes how evenly your pace held from one second to the next: high means a steady rhythm, low means bursts and pauses.
Practice is for building the habit. When you want a clean number to compare against next month, take a typing speed test instead: fixed conditions, from a 15-second burst to a 10-minute endurance run, with a speed graph at the end.
Learn touch typing online, one lesson at a time
Touch typing means finding every key by feel. Each finger looks after its own short column of keys and settles back on its resting key after each stroke, so your eyes can stay on the words. It feels slower for the first few days. After that it is the only dependable way to get faster without giving up accuracy, because you stop spending time looking down and correcting what you find.
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Foundations
Beginner30 lessons
From an empty keyboard to every letter, capital and full stop — without looking down.
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Every lesson has the same shape. You read a short explanation of what your fingers are about to learn, with the keys marked on a keyboard. Then come drills that use only keys you have already been taught, so you are never asked to reach for something new without warning. The lesson ends with a Check: a short passage typed under normal rules and judged on accuracy and, in most lessons, speed. Pass it and the next lesson opens.
Lessons open in order, each one only after you pass the one before, so the course never runs ahead of your hands. At the end of every unit comes a Weak Spot Drill: a practice run generated from the keys and letter pairs you have actually been missing, using only keys you already know. Two learners finishing the same unit will rarely get the same drill.
What you get
- Hands that show the finger
- A pair of hands sits on the on-screen keyboard and moves to each key before you press it, so you always know which finger should do the work. For a capital letter, the other hand reaches for Shift.
- Key sounds, or silence
- Each keystroke can make a short click, generated in your browser as you type rather than downloaded. Choose from four tones, or switch sound off.
- Weak Spot Drill
- After each unit, a drill built from your own errors — the keys and pairs you miss most often — using only letters you have already learned.
- No account, no sign-up
- Nothing stands between you and the first key. Lesson progress and results are saved on this device, in your browser.
- Built for slow connections
- Pages arrive already rendered and ship little code, so practice is ready quickly on an older laptop or a weak connection.
- Text written for this site
- Every drill, passage and word list was written for WowTyping. You will not be retyping copied articles or recycled quotations.
Questions about learning to type
What is a good typing speed?
It depends on what you type and how much. A pace that feels quick for answering messages would hold back someone who transcribes all day. As a loose guide, two-finger typists often land somewhere in the twenties or thirties, and practised touch typists usually sit comfortably above that. Accuracy matters more than the headline figure, because every error costs time to fix. To see where you stand, take a typing speed test and read net WPM and accuracy together.
How is WPM worked out?
Everything you typed is split into five-character words, spaces included, and that count is divided by the minutes the run lasted. That gives gross WPM. Net WPM first takes away one word for every error still in the text at the end, so uncorrected mistakes lower it, while fixed ones only cost the time spent fixing them. A fixed word length means a sentence of short words and one of long words are scored on equal terms.
How long does it take to learn touch typing?
Most of the effort comes early, while your fingers learn where the keys are. With fifteen to twenty minutes of practice a day, many people stop needing to look down within a few weeks, though everyone moves at their own pace. Speed keeps building for months after that. Our Foundations course is planned at about eight hours of practice in total, and Fluency at about six more.
Is WowTyping free?
Yes. The typing practice, all 50 lessons across both courses, the typing tests and the games are free to use in your browser. There is nothing to install, no trial that runs out and no payment details to enter. You can start the first lesson or a test the moment the page loads.
Do I need an account?
No. You can practise, take tests and work through the courses without signing up. Your lesson progress, your test bests and the key statistics behind your Weak Spot Drill are stored in this browser, on this device. That keeps them private, but it also means clearing your browser's site data removes them, and they will not follow you to another computer.
How can I type faster?
Slow down first. Speed built on guesses falls apart once you count the time spent correcting them, so practise at a pace where you are almost always right and let speed rise on its own. Keep your eyes on the text, bring each finger back to its home key after every reach, and practise a little every day rather than a lot once a week. When the same keys keep going wrong, drill them on purpose; that is what the Weak Spot Drill is for.
Can I use WowTyping on a phone or tablet?
The pages work on phones and tablets, but typing practice needs a physical keyboard. What we teach is ten fingers on a real key layout, and a touchscreen keyboard is a different skill with different habits. If you connect a Bluetooth or USB keyboard to your tablet or phone, you can use the practice box, lessons, tests and games much as you would on a computer.