Learn touch typing

Touch typing means every key has a finger and your eyes stay on the screen. It is the one change that moves most people from 40 WPM to 60 and beyond — and it takes a few weeks of short sessions, not months.

What touch typing is

Your fingers rest on the home row — A S D F for the left hand, J K L ; for the right, thumbs on the space bar — and each finger is responsible for the keys directly above and below its home position. The index fingers cover two columns each; the pinkies take the edges and the shift keys. Because every key has an owner, your hands never have to travel, and because they never travel, you never have to look.

The little raised bars on F and J are there so you can find the home row without looking. Once your fingers return there automatically between words, the rest of the keyboard follows.

How the course is built

A few keys at a time. The first lesson is F and J alone; the next adds D and K; then the rest of the home row; then one row up, one row down, then punctuation, numbers and capitals. Each lesson refuses to unlock the next until the keys underneath are automatic — not typed correctly once, but typed without hesitation — because a lesson built on keys you are still hunting for teaches you to hunt.

On-screen hands show which finger owns the next key, and the keyboard diagram highlights it, so you learn the finger and the key together from the first minute. A kid mode uses larger type and friendlier pacing for younger learners; the content is the same.

How long it takes

Most adults can type the full alphabet without looking after two weeks of fifteen-minute daily sessions. Speed then climbs for a couple of months as the motions become automatic; 60 WPM is a typical landing point, and people who keep going reach 80. The first week is the hard one, because your new technique is slower than your old habit. Push through it — it is the only week where that is true.

What the coach adds

Every keystroke in every lesson is timed. The coach knows which keys you reach for slowly, which pairs you swap, and which transitions break your rhythm, and it writes short drills built from exactly those. It runs on your device with no account and no data leaving the browser; you can point it at a language model for richer feedback if you want.

Other keyboards and languages

The course exists for QWERTY, AZERTY, QWERTZ and Arabic keyboards, with lessons in the matching language, and the finger guidance follows the layout you choose. Once the letters are automatic, the field-specific courses — code, medical, legal, business, data entry — take the same method to the vocabulary you actually type.

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