Left index finger typing practice

These keys, measured

Keys

6

Share of English letters

21.5%

Fingers involved

1

This drill is made of real words that lean on those keys, so that one finger does most of the work. These 6 letters carry 21.5% of every letter in the 111 books behind the practice texts here — 11,198,611 presses out of 51,993,314, T alone accounting for 9.1%. No useful number of real words can be spelled out of 6 letters alone, so the drill takes real words that lean on them hardest instead of inventing nonsense. The set spans 3 rows (bottom row, home row, top row) and 1 finger.

for · but · off · get · got · far · big · try · bit · art · fit · beg · bag · fat · rat · bar · fro · fur

The set spans 3 rows: bottom row, home row, top row. In the course these keys arrive in lesson 15, lesson 1, lesson 5, lesson 7.

One key at a time

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