Typing practice
Practice that works out which keys are costing you speed, then builds the lesson around those. Free, no account, nothing to install.
Already know what you want? Go straight to adaptive practice, a 1-minute test, untimed practice, or weak-key drills.
Why weak-key practice beats general practice
The nine most common letters in English — E, T, A, O, I, N, S, H, R — account for roughly 70% of the letters you type. Practising ordinary text therefore drills the keys you are already fast on, while the keys actually holding you back barely appear.
That is not just intuition. The largest published typing study found that specific letter pairs, particularly those typed with different hands or different fingers, predict overall speed better than general measures do. A motion-capture study found the same thing from the other direction: what separates fast typists from slow ones is consistency on individual keys, not how many fingers they use. Figures and citations are on the research page.
If speed lives in specific transitions, practice should target those specific transitions.
How the practice adapts
| Step | What happens |
|---|---|
| 1. Measure | Every keystroke records its latency and whether it was correct, per key. |
| 2. Score | Each key gets a confidence value from its speed against your target, penalised by its error rate. |
| 3. Focus | The lowest-scoring unlocked key becomes the focus of the next lesson. |
| 4. Generate | Real words are chosen and weighted toward that key — not invented letter soup. |
| 5. Unlock | Once every unlocked key clears the bar, the next letter joins the set. |
The exact formula, the unlock order and the generation rules are published at /docs/keyforge rather than described in adjectives.
Practice modes
Adaptive (KeyForge)
Scores every key and builds the lesson around your weakest. The one to use if you have plateaued.
Timed
15, 30, 60 or 120 seconds. Use 60 for a number comparable to published benchmarks.
Untimed
No clock, no word count. For warming up, or practising without a countdown pushing you into errors.
Structured drills
Home row upward, in order — the closest thing here to a syllabus.
If you are starting from scratch
Practice assumes you can already find the keys. If you cannot yet, the ordering matters more than the volume: anchor your hands, learn a few letters properly, and stop looking down before you try to go fast. The beginner path is here.
What we will not tell you. How many weeks it takes to reach a given speed. There is no credible study behind any such schedule, and the confident ones you will find elsewhere are invented. Track your own trend instead — it is the only figure that describes you.
Find your weak keys
One test produces the per-key breakdown. That tells you what to practise, which is most of the problem.
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