Most of us wish we could type faster. Whether writing emails, social media posts, LLM prompts, blog posts, or the Great American Novel, typing is fundamental. The most obvious way to type faster is to practice, practice, practice. Here are some of the best sites, mostly free, where you can practice your typing skills:
- https://www.typing.com/ — Aimed at younger typers, tailored to state and federal testing standards.
- https://www.keybr.com/ — A simple and practical typing tutorial and test with randomly generated words instead of repetitive drills.
- https://www.typingclub.com/ — Traditional structured typing lessons for free.
- https://monkeytype.com/ — Simple and no nonsense. No account required to try it out.
- https://play.typeracer.com/ — Enter a global typing competition to push your skills to the limit.
- https://entertrained.app/books — Practice your typing with classic literature from authors like Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Bram Stoker, Leo Tolstoy, Oscar Wilde, and many more.
Text Expansion
Of course, we here at TextExpander have a shortcut: Text expansion. Creating short Snippets for common and complex words can dramatically improve your typing time by saving keystrokes. For instance, typing ;em instead of your email address or ;addr instead of your home address.
We have one more typing test to prove it. Check out our TextExpander Typing Game. It’s like any other typing test EXCEPT it lets you use TextExpander Snippets along with your natural typing skills. Give it a try and let us know how it compares!
