The 5 Best Typing Software Websites

The 5 Best Typing Software Websites

Keyboarding has been a necessary skill for school, business, and personal life for the past two decades. For anyone who wishes to learn the basics or simply touch up on existing skills, these websites provides the tools to improve typing speed and accuracy. The following are reviews of the best typing software websites online today.

TypingWeb.com

As one of the more popular web based keyboarding programs, TypingWeb.com offers dozens of free lessons. For $9.99, users can upgrade their accounts to remove advertisements and unlock additional high level assignments including exercises targeting each finger to help students progress even faster.
Basic lessons start with the home row and quickly progress to the entire alphabet, eventually encompassing the entire keyboard. Users can also practice prose typing by copying passages from popular literature like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Romeo & Juliet, and they can even take a glimpse at the Dvorak keyboard layout.
TypingWeb.com comes with plenty of extra features to help students and teachers alike. Since the program is free, teachers can use the website instead of buying expensive typing software for use in the classroom. TypingWeb.com's teacher portal provides tools to keep track of students' progress including test grades. Students can have fun while learning with more then 10 flash games that run in the web browser.

Sense-Lang.org

With as many features as TypingWeb.com, Sense-Lang.org offers a comparable number of tools, but the site itself appears less professional as if it were designed a decade ago. Sense-Lang.org also provides a teacher portal that provides the same functionality with student progress tracking, and students can access numerous tutorials, speed tests, and games to learn how to type.

TypeOnline.co.uk

With a smaller selection of typing lessons, no games, and no teacher portal, TypeOnline.co.uk provides only a rudimentary lesson plan. For each lesson, words pop up one or two at a time, and when a user must press the space bar, the actual word "space" appears. TypeOnline.co.uk does teach users how to type from the home row to the entire keyboard, but it's far more confusing than TypingWeb.com's streamlined lessons.

GoodTyping.com

While also free, GoodTyping.com requires users to sign up for an account before they begin accessing more than two dozen step-by-step lessons. Unfortunately, the site does not provide extra features such as games to help students learn, but anyone including nonmembers can access the typing speed test at the bottom of the home page. GoodTyping.com also supports 23 keyboard layouts while most sites only support the traditional QWERTY keyboard.

10FastFingers.com

To test progress, users of the other sites can visit 10FastFingers.com and grade their performance. With 41 languages to choose from, typists from countries as diverse as China, Turkey, and Iceland can measure their speed and accuracy.