Right little finger typing practice

These keys, measured

Keys

1

Share of English letters

1.6%

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 1 letters carry 1.6% of every letter in the 111 books behind the practice texts here — 854,748 presses out of 51,993,314, P alone accounting for 1.6%. No useful number of real words can be spelled out of 1 letters alone, so the drill takes real words that lean on them hardest instead of inventing nonsense. The set spans one row, the top row and 1 finger.

up · pipe · papa · happy · paper · upper · put · pay · top · cap · cup · pen · lip · pot · people · appear · papers · supper

The set spans one row: the top row. In the course these keys arrive in lesson 10.

One key at a time

Other drills

Keep going

• 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.