Typing lessons, speed test and editing drills
Type it faster.
Edit it without the mouse.
Typeloft teaches touch typing one key at a time, times you with honest numbers, and drills the editing keys that Windows, Chromebook and Mac already have. It all runs in your browser. No account, no email.
Start lesson 1 Take the 1-minute test
Typeloft Pass $1.95/month or $19.50/year · Free during preview. Lessons 1-9, the 1-minute test and four drills are free for good.
Try it: type the line below
Your hands on A S D F and J K L ;
Three ways to practise
The lesson path
Four units. Eighteen stops. One key at a time.
Each lesson lights the new keys on the keyboard, says which finger takes them, and builds practice text from real words that use only the keys you know. You pass a lesson at 90% accuracy: speed comes once the reaches are right.
Honest numbers
Two formulas, printed where you can check them.
Words per minute
correct characters ÷ 5 ÷ minutes
A "word" is five characters, spaces included: the usual typing-test convention. Wrong keys add nothing.
Accuracy
correct keys ÷ all keys pressed
Every key you press counts. The cursor waits on a mistake until you type the right key.
Worked example
200 ÷ 5 ÷ 1 = 40 wpm
200 correct characters in one minute, 210 keys pressed: 200 ÷ 210 = 95.2% accuracy.
Edit Drills
The keys the computer already has.
Every drill names the keys for each computer, quoted from the maker's own shortcut page, then checks your edit by the result and counts how many keys you used.
Example log
38best wpm
96%accuracy
9lessons passed
Weak keys: Q Z P
Practice Log
Your progress on a private link.
Save a result and Typeloft gives you a link. No account, no email, no name. The log shows your best and recent speed, the lessons you have passed, a chart, and a keyboard map of the keys you miss most, with a drill built from them.
Pricing
Free to learn the home row. $1.95 a month for the rest.
Free during preview. Payments are not switched on yet, so everything below is open to everyone and nothing is charged. These are the prices it will have.
Free
$0
- Lessons 1 to 9 (home row to N and C)
- The 1-minute speed test
- Edit Drills 1 to 4
- Practice Log of your newest 10 results
Typeloft Pass
$1.95/month
or $19.50 a year (two months free)
- All 18 lessons: the whole alphabet, Shift, numbers, punctuation, sentences
- Tests of 30 seconds to 5 minutes, words or sentences
- All 12 Edit Drills
- Weak-key drill and practice on your own text
- Log of up to 1,000 results, CSV and a printable progress sheet
Free during preview. No checkout yet.
Questions
Does it work on a phone?
The pages do, and you can type with the phone's keyboard, but Typeloft is made for a real keyboard on a laptop or desktop: that is where touch typing pays off.
Which keyboard layout does it teach?
The US QWERTY layout, the usual layout on computers sold in the United States. Edit Drills work on any layout.
What is saved about me?
Nothing, unless you press Save. A saved result keeps what you practised, the counts, the time and how often each key was right or wrong. Never the text you typed, never your name. Privacy.
How fast should I be?
Typeloft does not grade you against other people. Watch your own number climb, and keep accuracy above 90% while it does.