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Learn to touch type on your own keyboard layout. Animated hands show every finger movement before you try it, and checkpoints make sure each row is yours before the next one starts.

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Lesson 1 · Foundations · step 1Find Your Starting PositionGuided · ▷ 18 s intro

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1Find Your Starting PositionLocate the two index-finger anchors.GuidedStart hereGuidedStart here▷ 18 sStart
2Your Left HandPosition the four left-hand fingers.GuidedGuided▷ 12 s
3Your Right HandPosition the four right-hand fingers.GuidedGuided▷ 12 s
4Meet the SpacebarUse a thumb for spaces.PatternsPatterns▷ 12 s
5The Golden RuleLook at the screen instead of your hands.GuidedGuided▷ 12 s

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1Lesson 1FoundationsWhere your hands rest, how they move, and why you look at the screen.5 steps

2Lesson 2Home Row MasteryAll eight home keys, one finger at a time, then together and in real words.13 steps

3Lesson 3Upper RowReaching up from home, finger by finger, until two rows feel like one.10 steps

4Lesson 4Lower RowReaching down, then all three rows and the whole alphabet.8 steps

5Lesson 5Shift and PunctuationCapitals with the opposite Shift, and the marks that make sentences.7 steps

6Lesson 6Numbers and SymbolsThe number row and the symbols above it, in the contexts they appear.7 steps

7Lesson 7FluencyFrom letters to patterns, words and paragraphs, and your first timed test.8 steps

8Lesson 8Full Layout GraduationReal messages, documents, a mixed-character challenge, endurance and the final assessment.6 steps