Learn to type for free, from the very first key. This beginner typing course starts at the home row and adds one row at a time, and every practice line is written as a first lesson, so the text you type teaches you how to type. Sixty seconds a day, instant feedback, no sign up.
To learn to type you only need two things: the home row, and the patience to be slow for a week. This free course teaches touch typing from absolute zero, and every practice sentence is a lesson about learning itself, so your practice text coaches you while you type it. Sixty seconds a day in your browser, with live WPM and accuracy feedback, no account and no cost.
Rest your left fingers on A S D F and your right fingers on J K L ;, thumbs on the space bar. Feel the small bumps on F and J; they are the only map a beginner needs. Type words made from the home row only, slowly, and let each finger return home after every key. If you must look, look after the word, never in the middle of it. That is the entire first lesson, and everything after it is just practice.
Most people own the home row in a week and reach a comfortable 40 to 60 words per minute in three to four weeks of daily practice. The mistake beginners make is chasing speed early; accuracy is the foundation and speed is the building that arrives later. End every session on your slowest, most careful line, and your hands will learn faster than you expect.
Yes. This course is completely free, with no sign up, no account, and no paywall. Every lesson is a timed practice you can repeat as often as you like, and your results stay in your own browser.
That is exactly who this page is for. It starts at the home row, assumes nothing, and adds one row at a time. Being slow in the first week is not a setback; it is the lesson.
The home row: A S D F J K L ; with your thumbs on the space bar. Find the bumps on F and J with your index fingers, and practice words made only from those keys until you never look down.
Usually one to two weeks for the home row, and three to four weeks before the whole keyboard feels automatic. Covering the keyboard with a cloth speeds this up, because it removes the option of cheating.
Accuracy, always. Speed is a byproduct of accurate repetition. A fast wrong keystroke teaches your hand the wrong address for a key, which you then have to unlearn.
Ten to fifteen minutes every day. Short daily practice builds muscle memory far better than one long weekly session, because the hands learn by frequency, not by total minutes.