Typing+Practice

Learning to Type

Learning How to Type 

These links teach home row and finger positioning.

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[|Dance Mat Typing] - interactive fun games to teach different keys.
 * Level 1
 * Lesson 1: Home-row
 * Lesson 2: e and i
 * Lesson 3: o and u || Level 2
 * Lesson 4: t, y
 * Lesson 5: w, o
 * Lesson 6: q, p || Level 3
 * Lesson 7: v, m
 * Lesson 8: b, n
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Lesson 9: c,, || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Level 4
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Lesson 10: x, z
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Lesson 11: /,.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Lesson 12: shift keys ||

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">[|Doorway Online] Typing lessons - this site goes skill by skill starting with the home row. Students get accuracy scores as they complete lessons. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Student results sheet - too keep track of accuracy within this Doorway online site.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">[|Learn to Type]--futuristic keyboard to practice basic skills - begins with jkf and fde. It does not appear the you can select different levels to begin with. Does show a keyboard but not fingering images.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">[|Homekey Kennys] - this game uses ONLY the home-row keys to "bop" the gophers on the head that go with that home-row letter. Fun home-row practice, but does not teach positioning or have a keyboard shown.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">[|Finger Placement] - this site has a keyboard with the proper finger positioning. As you type keys it shows which finger should be touching each letter. There is also typing practice, beginning with the home row.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">[|Keyboarding Practice] - this site has 17 different levels of typing practice starting with the home row and ending with z and :(colon). There are not tips or images of the keyboard.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">[|Power Typing] - this site has practice lessons starting with the home row, ranging from letters, to numbers, to punctuation. It also keeps track of WPM. The way the game is set up is to help your eyes not look at the keys but the screen.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">[|Kids Learn to Type]- students create a username and password and this program keeps track of scores and progress. There may be a lot ads on this site.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">[|Rapid Typing Zone] - a downloadable typing game that keeps track of student progress.

<span style="color: #861d31; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 160%; text-align: center;">Expert Typer <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">These links use quick typing skills to play. They do not emphasize or teach proper finger positioning.

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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">[|Phobos Lab]--blast the words before they get you!

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">[|Super Hyper Spider Typer]--Fun typing game--stop the lizards before they get the spider. Choose your level. (easy, medium, hard)

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">[|Learning Games for Kids] - this site has many fun games on one site where kids practice basic typing skills. There are also games for typing numbers. These games do not teach finger positioning.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">[|Top Typing Games]- more for intermediate level students. This has a variety of typing games. It does have advertisements on the site as well. A large variety of typing games.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">[|Free Typing Games.net]- this site has a large variety of typing practice games that have great kid appeal and are interactive. Several of them allow you to choose a "level" starting with home row keys all the way up to the full keyboard. It includes games with sailboats, ghosts, race cars, frogs, and spaceships.