60
seconds
Twelve lessons, from the home row to full sentences. Each one has a speed and an accuracy target, and you move on by passing it.
Each lesson focuses on one group of keys or one skill and draws from a fixed set of practice words, so the same movements repeat until they stick. Every lesson has a target speed and a target accuracy, and you pass by hitting both in the same attempt. Getting to the end is not enough. Passing opens the next lesson. If your best recorded speed already beats a lesson's target by 15 WPM or more, it opens straight away, so experienced typists can jump ahead to the parts they need.
| # | Lesson | Keys or skill | Pass mark |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The home row | A S D F, J K L ; | 12 WPM at 95% |
| 2 | Home row words | Real words without leaving home, G and H added | 16 WPM at 95% |
| 3 | The top row | Q W E R T, Y U I O P | 18 WPM at 94% |
| 4 | Top and home together | Two rows, one motion | 22 WPM at 94% |
| 5 | The bottom row | Z X C V B, N M | 18 WPM at 93% |
| 6 | The whole alphabet | Every letter, no numbers | 28 WPM at 95% |
| 7 | Capitals | Shift with the opposite hand | 26 WPM at 94% |
| 8 | Common pairs | th, he, in, er, an and others | 34 WPM at 96% |
| 9 | Punctuation | Commas, full stops, apostrophes | 30 WPM at 94% |
| 10 | The number row | 1 through 0 | 22 WPM at 92% |
| 11 | Symbols | @ # $ % & * ( ) / \ | 20 WPM at 90% |
| 12 | Full sentences | Everything, in context | 40 WPM at 96% |
The speed targets are modest on purpose and the accuracy targets are strict. Speed comes with repetition. Accuracy has to be built in from the start, because a mistake you practise is a mistake you learn.
The keys you type on Presspace feed a keyboard heatmap in the Stats panel, with accuracy, speed and finger views. When a key keeps failing or lagging, start a weak-key drill: every word in it contains the keys you are working on. The results screen offers the same after any test. Click a key that slipped, or one of your slowest words, and it becomes a drill.
For the method behind the course, read the touch typing guide. When you finish, measure yourself on the 1 minute typing test, and for practice that feels less like practice, try the typing games.
Each attempt is a short set of practice lines, so it takes a minute or two. How long the course takes depends on how quickly you reach each target. Many people repeat a lesson several times before passing it, and that repetition is the point.
In effect, yes. If your best recorded speed beats a lesson's target by 15 WPM or more, that lesson opens straight away. Otherwise each lesson opens when you pass the one before it.
Replay any lesson to sharpen up, and switch to drills built from your own results. The keyboard heatmap in the Stats panel shows your weakest keys, and one click builds a test where every word contains them.