Learn to type without looking.

Touch typing means typing without looking at the keyboard. Your hands rest on the home row, each finger owns a small group of keys, and every finger returns to its home key after it reaches for one. The index fingers find F and J by the raised bumps on those keycaps, which is how you get your hands back into position without looking.

Most people who type quickly but incorrectly use three or four fingers and look down. It works until it does not.

Better technique

Your hands keep their place on the home row, so you stop looking down to find a key and your attention stays on what you are writing.

Better accuracy

Each finger owns a small group of keys and returns to its home key after every reach. Consistent movement is what makes the right key reliable.

Speed that lasts

Speed follows technique on its own. Built the other way round it plateaus early, because the errors cost more time than the hurry saves.

Every key belongs to one finger. Each finger covers a diagonal column running from the number row down to the bottom row, and the index fingers cover two columns each, which is why they do the most work. The interactive finger guide shows the same chart on a keyboard.

Accuracy, then technique, then practice. Speed is the result, not the thing to work on.

1. 01Get accurate firstAt 95% accuracy you make an error every twenty characters, and each one breaks your rhythm. Slow down until you finish clean.
2. 02Use the right fingerKnowing which finger owns a key is what stops you looking down. It costs you speed for about a week and repays it indefinitely.
3. 03Practise briefly and oftenTen minutes a day beats an hour on Sunday. Motor memory consolidates between sessions rather than during them.
4. 04Fix your weak keysAlmost everyone fumbles a handful of keys, usually punctuation and numbers. Practise those rather than more of what you are already good at.
5. 05Let speed arriveOnce the movement is reliable, speed comes without being chased. Push it before then and accuracy is what you spend.

A typing test measures how quickly and how accurately you can copy a passage of text. You are given something to type and a fixed amount of time; when the clock runs out, the test reports your speed in words per minute and your accuracy as a percentage.

The point is not the number. A test is a measurement you can repeat under the same conditions, which makes it useful for noticing whether a change in how you type is actually working. Take one now, change one habit, and take another next week.

A “word” in typing is defined as five characters, including spaces and punctuation. That convention exists because real words vary wildly in length, and counting them directly would make an English test and a German one incomparable.

WPM = (correct characters ÷ 5) ÷ minutes elapsed

This test reports net WPM, which counts only the characters that ended up correct. A test that reports gross or raw WPM counts every keystroke, so the same run will score higher there. The result screen shows both, and the gap between them is a direct measure of how much your mistakes are costing you.

Accuracy is the share of your keystrokes that produced the right character:

Accuracy = (correct keystrokes ÷ total keystrokes) × 100

A mistake counts even if you correct it, because the time spent noticing it and backspacing is time you have already lost. This is why accuracy is the more honest number of the two: speed with a low accuracy score simply moves the work into the editing you will do afterwards.

If you are below about 95%, work on accuracy before anything else. Slow down until you can finish a test clean, then let the speed return on its own. It reliably does.

Around 40 words per minute is typical for someone who types regularly but has never been taught. Touch typists usually land between 60 and 80. Above 100 is fast by any measure, and professional transcriptionists work in the 120 range. Speed matters far less than consistency: 55 words per minute at 98% accuracy produces more finished work than 80 at 90%.

Aim for the next ten, not the next fifty. If you test at 45, the useful target is 55 at the same accuracy. Improvements of that size come from a few weeks of short daily sessions, whereas a jump of forty words per minute usually means accuracy has been traded away.

Yes. Every lesson, drill, game and test on Typekaro is free and needs no account. The whole thing runs in your browser, so there is nothing to install and nothing to pay for.

It removes the two things that cap speed for most people: looking down to find keys, and using a few fingers to cover the whole keyboard. Both cost time on every word. What touch typing gives you directly is consistency, and speed follows from that. It is worth being honest that the first week is slower than the habit you already have, which is the part most people quit at.

Accuracy is the share of your keystrokes that produced the right character: correct keystrokes divided by total keystrokes, times 100. A mistake counts even if you correct it, because the time spent noticing it and backspacing is time you have already lost.

Each finger covers a diagonal column of keys running from the number row down to the bottom row, and returns to its home key after every reach. The index fingers cover two columns each. The chart further up this page lists every key, and the finger guide shows it interactively.

Yes: German, French and 15 other keyboards are supported, chosen with the keyboard button on the right edge of every page of the app. Once you choose yours, the lit key, the raised finger and the lesson drills follow it, and what you type is still judged by what your own keys type.

No. Results are written to your browser's local storage and read back when you return, so every lesson, game and test works without signing up. An account is optional and free, and the only thing it adds is the same progress on a second device: when you are signed in, your results are also saved to Typekaro's database so another browser can catch up. What you type is never stored either way.

Yes. Tapping the passage opens your device's keyboard and the test runs normally. The on-screen keyboard and hand guide are drawn for a physical keyboard, so they are most useful on a laptop or desktop, and you can switch either of them off in settings.

It repairs the text but not the score. A mistyped character counts against accuracy whether or not you correct it, which is how typing tests are conventionally scored. Correcting still helps your speed, because words per minute is calculated from characters that end up correct.