Typing practice
Free typing practice in your browser, in English or Nepali. Nothing to install, no account to make: choose a language and the first lesson starts on the letters that matter most. This page is the short version of how to get faster.
How long should you practise each day?
Fifteen minutes a day beats two hours on a Sunday. Touch typing is muscle memory, and muscle memory is built by repetition spread out rather than piled up. Sessions here are five minutes by default for that reason: short enough to start on a day you would rather not, and you can always run another.
Should you practise for speed or for accuracy?
Fast typing is mostly typing without correcting. A wrong letter costs you three keystrokes - the mistake, the backspace and the retype - so practising at a pace where you rarely miss will make you quicker than practising at a pace where you often do. Lessons here wait on a mistake rather than letting it past, and your accuracy sits beside your speed on the progress page.
What counts as a good typing speed?
Speed is measured in words per minute, where a word is five characters. Adults who never learnt touch typing usually land somewhere around 40 wpm and stop improving; someone who practises properly is comfortable past 60. Start with a target of 25 here, and raise it once the letter grid is green - the lessons keep pace with you instead of getting longer.
How long is a session here?
You choose the length on the start screen. A timed session runs a quiet countdown - five minutes, fifteen, or a number you type - and adds everything up at the end: lessons finished, average and best speed, accuracy, and any letters you unlocked. Free practice has no clock and no ending; words keep arriving until you stop, and all of it counts the same. Either way you type without pausing, because fresh words appear the moment you finish the ones on screen.
Do the lessons include capital letters?
Off until you ask for them. Turn on “Capital letters” in Settings and each capital joins your lessons as a letter of its own, with its own progress, and appears only once you are quick at the small version of it. Hold Shift with the hand opposite the letter: that is the half worth drilling.
How do you practise Nepali typing?
Nepali works the same way, on either keyboard: Traditional Unicode, which is built into Windows and macOS and is what the Lok Sewa exams expect, or Preeti, the older typewriter layout many offices still ask for. Both drill whole letters, including the ones written with two or three keys, so what you practise is the letter as it appears on screen rather than the keystrokes it happens to take.
None of this is a typing test. There is no list of words to finish and no score to beat. Instead, the app times how long you take over each letter and gives you more of the letters you are slowest on. You start with six of them, and a seventh is added only once you can type all six quickly and without mistakes - then an eighth, and so on, until you have the whole keyboard. That is why no two sessions are alike.
Choose a language and start: