Bottom row typing practice
The row under home, and the one that goes wrong most: the fingers curl instead of reaching, and Z and X take the blame.
- Gross WPM
- 0
- Accuracy
- 0%
- Wrong words left in
- 0
- Keystrokes / hour
- 0
- Time
- 0 s
These keys, measured
- Keys
- 7
- Share of English letters
- 14.6%
- Fingers involved
- 5
There is no vowel down here, so these are real words that lean on the row rather than words spelled only from it. These 7 letters carry 14.6% of every letter in the 111 books behind the practice texts here — 7,582,235 presses out of 51,993,314, N alone accounting for 6.9%. No useful number of real words can be spelled out of 7 letters alone, so the drill takes real words that lean on them hardest instead of inventing nonsense. The set spans one row, the bottom row and 5 fingers.
man · can · men · box · inn · van · cab · common · cabin · bench · command · cunning · concern · convinced · in · on · my · be
The set spans one row: the bottom row. In the course these keys arrive in lesson 14, lesson 13, lesson 12, lesson 11.
One key at a time
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Typing test
Gross and net WPM, accuracy and keystrokes per hour — the figures typing exams use, at eight lengths from 15 seconds to 15 minutes.
Typing lessons
Fifteen short lessons, two new keys at a time, with the keyboard showing which finger goes where.
Practice texts
Type a passage from a classic book: real sentences, capitals and punctuation, with the numbers that say how hard each one is.
Every key
One page per key: the finger that owns it, how often it is really pressed, and the letter pairs it lives in.
Typing speed
What a speed means in characters, keystrokes per hour and minutes per page — and a test paced to the number you are aiming at.
Weak keys
A drill built from the keys you miss most, worked out from your own tests.
Times tables
Each table with its patterns, a drill that returns to what you got wrong, and a 60-second speed test.