what's new
what changed, in the language of someone using the site rather than someone building it. entries appear here once they are live. the fixes are listed alongside the features — a changelog that only admits the good parts is an advertisement.
august 2026
colemak and dvorak, taught properly
two more keyboard layouts, each with its own twenty-lesson course — not the qwerty lessons with the letters swapped. colemak's home row holds four of the six most common letters, so real words arrive by lesson four. dvorak puts every vowel under your left hand and its punctuation in the top row, so you are writing finished sentences by lesson eight. progress is kept separately for each layout, because per-key accuracy does not carry across one, and switching back finds your old history where you left it.
bigger keys on a phone
the on-screen keyboard now runs edge to edge on a narrow screen and each key answers to a touch area larger than the key you see. on most phones every row now clears the tap-target size we hold everywhere else on the site. where it still cannot — a fourteen-key row on the very smallest screens — we say so plainly on the accessibility page rather than quietly rounding up.
a wrong key no longer stops you
typing used to block on a mistake: the cursor stayed put until you produced the right character. now a wrong key moves you on and leaves a red mark where it happened. fix it with backspace or keep going — it is your call, and the mark stays until you decide.
the cursor flows
one cursor that glides to the next letter instead of a blinking bar that jumped. it stretches slightly with your speed and settles when you pause. no flashing.
printable charts
a finger-placement chart, typing speeds by grade, and a fifteen-minute weekly plan — free to print, copy, and hand out. every page on the site also prints properly now: black on white, no decoration, no wasted toner.
a plan that tells you when
the pace plan estimates when you will reach the speed you picked, starting from published research and then learning from your own practice. it is a range, never a promise, and it moves when life gets in the way.
a bookshelf
fourteen public-domain books you can type a passage at a time, and you can bring your own text file. your place is kept in this browser; the books themselves are never stored on your device.
numbers and punctuation are taught properly
the course grew from fifteen lessons to twenty. the number row, the apostrophe, and the shifted marks now have lessons of their own — previously the site claimed to cover every key and did not.
a phone can type now
the typing surface is a real input, so a phone keyboard actually opens and works. the on-screen keyboard can produce every character the lessons teach, including accents and the inverted marks spanish needs.
settings that show their work
text size now scales the whole page, not just the typing line. the colour-blind palettes show a live preview so you can see what changes. the stuck-keys setting was removed — it no longer did anything once a wrong key stopped blocking you.
the site is free, has no accounts and no tracking, and is not going to start. about explains why, and privacy says exactly what stays on your device.