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Touch typing for your class

Touch typing, taught as a game. Pupils fly from planet to planet, learn a few keys at a time and practise what they find hard, and you see how each of them is getting on.

Set up your class Already have one? Open the class page

€49 per class per year
No pupil email addresses
Data stored in the EU

A lesson: the next key to type, with the keyboard and hands showing which finger to use — Every lesson shows the right finger for the next key.

Why teach touch typing

Pupils write more and more on the computer. Research shows that typing well doesn’t come by itself, and that teaching it pays off.

Typed work falls behind without lessons

Among 300 primary school children, stories typed on the computer were up to two years behind their handwritten ones. The researchers’ conclusion: children need explicit touch-typing lessons.

Connelly, Gee & Walsh (2007), British Journal of Educational Psychology

Children still write better by hand

A review of 22 studies with over 6,000 primary pupils found the same: their handwritten texts were better than their typed ones.

Malpique, Valcan, Pino-Pasternak, Ledger & Merga (2024), The Australian Educational Researcher

Typing lessons improve typed writing

Secondary school pupils who were weak typists wrote better texts on the computer after a typing programme than classmates who only kept a daily typed journal. Fluent typing leaves attention free for ideas and sentences.

Christensen (2004), British Journal of Educational Psychology

A course works better than practising alone

In a study of more than 1,700 primary pupils, a structured typing course improved speed and accuracy more than free typing activities online. The authors advise starting early in primary school.

Donica, Giroux & Kim (2019), The Open Journal of Occupational Therapy

Fast typists share the same habits

Each letter always pressed by the same finger, the next keys prepared early, and hands that hardly move: these predicted speed in a motion-capture study of everyday typists. They are the habits touch typing builds.

Feit, Weir & Oulasvirta (2016), CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

That’s what Let’s Get Typing teaches: one finger for each key from the first lesson, eyes on the screen, and a little practice every day.

How it works in class

1
Set up your class
Enter a class name and your email address on the class page. You can start right away; the link to your class page arrives by email.
2
Add your pupils
Type your pupils’ first names, one per line. Each of them gets a four-digit PIN.
3
Hand out login cards
Print a card for each pupil with the class code, their name and a four-digit PIN. It works at school and at home.
4
Follow their progress
See each pupil’s planet, the keys they’ve learned, their speed and accuracy, and their practice this week.

What pupils do

Short lessons with the right finger shown for every key, a few new keys at a time.
Practice that adapts to each pupil: it works on the keys they find hard and brings back the ones that fade.
A two-minute daily practice, handy to start a lesson with.
Stars to collect, badges to earn and new planets to reach: practice feels like playing.
The games (micro games, Gloop Attack and a space RPG) start switched off, and so does sound. Switch the games on for the class whenever you like, for example as a reward.
Dyslexia-friendly fonts, six keyboard layouts (including QWERTY, AZERTY and QWERTZ), for ages 7 and up.

What you see

For each pupil: the planet they’re on and the keys they’ve learned, their recent speed and accuracy, the minutes they practised this week and when they last played.
A class leaderboard for the pupils, by first name. You’re not on it.
A forgotten PIN? Make a new one in one click; the old one stops working.

Price

€49 per class per year

Premium for up to 35 pupils: every planet, every lesson, every game.
Paid once for the year. No subscription: nothing renews by itself.
Try it first: without a licence, pupils can already play the free home row (the first three planets).
More than one class? Each class has its own licence.

Set up your class

Privacy

No email addresses for pupils: a first name (or a nickname) and a PIN are all they need.
Your own email address is only used to send you the link to your class page, and isn’t stored.
Data is stored on servers in the EU. No ads, no tracking, nothing sold.
Delete a pupil or the whole class, and their data is deleted with it.

Questions about privacy or data processing? Email us at [email protected].

What you need

A computer with a keyboard and an up-to-date browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari). Nothing to install, nothing to set up on the school network.

Questions from teachers

Do pupils need an email address?

No. They log in with the class code, their first name and the four-digit PIN on their login card.

Can pupils practise at home?

Yes. The same code, name and PIN work on any computer, and their progress is the same at school and at home.

Can I switch the games off?

They start switched off. You can switch them on for the whole class on the class page, and off again.

What if a pupil forgets their PIN?

Make a new PIN on the class page. The old one stops working and the pupil logs in with the new one.

Can I have more than one class?

Yes. Each class has its own code, its own pupils and its own licence.

What happens after a year?

Pupils keep their progress and can still play the free home row. Pay for another year to open everything again.

Try it with your class

Set up your class in a minute, add your pupils and play the free home row together. Pay when you’re sure.