20 Free Keyboarding Resources for the Classroom
The Internet is an excellent place to find fun and cost-effective ways to improve your students’
keyboarding skills. Resources that increase speed and accuracy are available for keyboarders at any level. Here is a list of 20 free lessons, tests, games, and activities to explore today:
Lessons and Tests
Goodtyping – Goodtyping offers a free typing course to correct your finger placement and increase speed. This web-based course provides a total of 27 guided lessons in 18 different layouts.
Typingweb – Typingweb is a good typing resource for students of all ages. The site offers a complete course, typing tutorials, exercises, and tests to improve accuracy and speed.
Sens-lang.org – Sens-lang.org offers lessons, tutors, games, and tests to increase keyboarding skills. The site also provides visual demonstrations, tips, and tricks to improve finger placement.
Alpha Free Typing Tutor – The Alpha Free Typing Tutor provides step-by-step instruction to improve keyboarding ability. The site also hosts lessons, games, and tests that score wpm and accuracy.
BellaOnline – BellaOnline features five free typing tests for speed and accuracy. Two great tests to try include the Pride and Prejudice test and the Hamlet test.
Keybr.com – This free typing tutorial hosts three basic lessons guaranteed to improve keyboarding skills. Keybr.com even lets you import text from a website or blog so that you can customize your learning environment.
Learn 2 Type for Kids – Learn 2 Type provides typing lessons and games that are specifically designed for kids. Teachers can register for a free account to create customized lessons based on age and grade.
TypingLessons-Online.com
This instructional learning site features video instructions, character exercises, and speed typing lessons. Lessons can be customized with news articles or your own text.
ARTypist – ARTypist was created to help students learn, improve, and master keyboarding. This online tutor provides 10 lessons and games.
?The UgLY TypInG PrACtice ProGrAM! – This online keyboarding program specializes in customizable speed drills for numbers, punctuation, and symbols. This site isn’t the most visually pleasing space to behold, but it does provide powerful practice with fully customizable keyboarding improvement options.
Games and Activities
AlphAttack – AlphAttack is a keyboarding game provided by Gamequarium. This game is a great way to build accuracy and learn the placement of letters on the keyboard.
Keyboarding Skills – E-learning for Kids offers this free keyboarding game for 5th-12th graders. The game covers a wide range of keyboarding and navigation skills.
Keyman – The TypingMaster provides many fun and original games for children of all ages. The Keyman game is a special typing version of Pacman which allows you to learn keyboarding skills while avoiding the evil typo ghosts.
Typer Shark – The Typer Shark from Pop Cap is an excellent way to increase typing speed. The game provides several settings from easy (20wpm) to expert (70wpm). There is also an extreme setting for fast-fingered keyboarders.
Type Type Revolution – Played Online provides 20 different games to increasing your 10-fingered typing skills, including Type Type Revolution. This fun, interactive game can challenge anyone’s keyboarding skills.
TypeMaster – The TypeMaster challenges students to type 10 lines as fast as they can. The game then calculates the student’s time, speed, and wpm.
Speed Typing – Speed Typing improves speed and accuracy through this fun, fast-typing game. The object is to type 12 words as fast as you can without typos. The words get more difficult as your work toward the 12th row.
Cup Stacking – LearningGamesforKids.com offers three fun typing games for children, including this Cup Stacking game. Cup Stacking is designed specifically for the elementary learners.
Typo – Typo is an interactive keying game to increase your typing accuracy. The game teaches you to type quickly and reduces points for typos.
Goalie – This game from Customtyping.com works on keyboarding speed by challenging users to type a word next to the on-screen ball. If you don’t type fast enough, you’re out of the game.
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Very informative stuff. Thanks very much.
Keep it up!
Regards
Tom
Thank you for shared information
Regarding typing test,
In the 1980’s typing speed was one of the criteria to get jobs anywhere.
But slowly this trend stopped and typing speed was not important to most of the employers.
This is the reason why typing tests, which were once very popular suddenly, vanished from the scene.
However recently we see a growing shift in the attitude of the employers
Excellent blog with useful information on keyboard sites, thanks
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Thanks for the Heads Up about the Internet Explorer problem. Hopefully people will upgrade to Edge or Chrome.
check out this typing tool https://typingchamp.com i hope you like it 🙂
Good to see some amazing typing websites there in the article. But I personally use ‘Typing Mentor’ for my regular practice and keyboarding skill development. I hope you will like it also, They have some awesome features compared to others.
In case if you want the address, here it is: https://www.typingmentor.com