Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Every lesson, mode, game, race and analytics view is free. There is no subscription, no paywalled tier and no advertising. Themes are unlocked by learning rather than by paying.

Not to try it. The typing test and every guide are open to anyone. Saving progress needs one free account, created with an email link or a Google sign-in, because a mastery map that vanishes when you clear your browser is not worth building. One grown-up account holds up to four explorer profiles, and the learners themselves never sign in.

Every keystroke is written to your browser's local storage first, so practice never waits on a network call and keeps working offline. Finished results and your mastery map then sync to your account so they survive a lost device. The raw text you typed is not uploaded. You can erase everything, locally and in the account, from Settings → Data.

With about 15 minutes of daily practice, most adults type the whole alphabet without looking within two to three weeks and reach a usable 40 WPM in roughly four to eight weeks. Reaching 60–70 WPM typically takes a few months. Children usually take longer in calendar time but often finish with cleaner technique.

Around 40 WPM is a functional working speed and roughly the average for an adult who types regularly. 60–70 WPM is comfortably fast and enough that typing stops being the bottleneck in most work. Above 90 WPM is genuinely fast. Accuracy matters more than any of these numbers: 45 WPM at 98% accuracy beats 60 WPM at 85% for real work.

Yes. The curriculum is layout-aware: it rebuilds the lesson order, the key groupings and the on-screen keyboard around QWERTY, QWERTZ, AZERTY, Dvorak or Colemak, so the lessons teach your actual layout rather than a translated QWERTY one.

Yes. There is a dedicated kids world with an island map, quests, a guardian companion, gentler speed targets and kid-appropriate word lists. Children never create an account or give an email address: a parent or teacher signs in and the child gets a profile. There is no chat and no strangers, race rivals are computer-controlled, and rooms are join-code only.

Yes. Assignable lessons, private race rooms with join codes, multiple student profiles per shared device and per-student accessibility profiles are all supported. Students join with a class code rather than an email address, and only finished results reach the class board. The teacher dashboard is currently a preview.

Yes. The free typing test runs in the browser at 15, 30, 60 or 120 seconds and reports WPM, raw WPM, accuracy, consistency and a per-key breakdown. No sign-up, and the result stays on your device.

Full keyboard navigation, four text sizes, the Atkinson Hyperlegible typeface, a high-contrast theme, reduced-motion mode, untimed learning, feedback that is never colour-only, and hideable leaderboards. These are per-profile settings.

Yes. Once loaded, every lesson, game and analytics view runs from local storage, so practice continues if the connection drops and syncs up quietly when it returns. Only the initial sign-in needs a connection. It is installable as a progressive web app on desktop and mobile.

The standard way: correctly typed characters divided by five (the conventional word length), scaled to one minute. Raw WPM applies the same formula to every keystroke including errors, so the gap between raw and net WPM is a direct measure of how much speed your mistakes are costing you.