typ.ing: A Typing Trainer That Wants You to Plug In a Real Keyboard
typ.ing is a focused typing trainer that emphasizes speed and accuracy with external keyboards. It detects mobile devices and nudges users to connect a physical keyboard, offering a no-frills practice environment. The site is minimal, with a simple prompt to start typing, making it a straightforward tool for keyboard enthusiasts.
typ.ing is an awesome typing trainer, designed to help you get faster and more accurate when typing with an external keyboard.
- amluto
This, like almost every typing training system out there, suffers from my pet peeve: if you type an extra character or miss a character, then you end up with a series of “mistakes” instead of just one.
Why don’t these programs use some form of edit distance? I’m sure that one could come up with a way to freeze the edit beyond some distance from the caret to reduce the potential for spooky UI action at a distance.
- Zambyte
As noted in the default test, this site is by ZSA, a keyboard company. Their boards are pricey, but excellent. I have both their Moonlander, which sits on my desk at home, and their Voyager, which I went with quieter key switches (brown rather than blue) for taking on the go. Their boards are very comfortable; I highly recommend considering split, columnar keyboards like what they offer if you spend most of your day at a computer.
As a side, I switched to Dvorak when I first bought my Moonlander about 6 years ago. I have only used split keyboards with Dvorak, and I have only used traditional staggered keyboards with QWERTY. My muscle memory is well isolated between the two, and I have no trouble switching between them (though as it has now been many years since I regularly used a physical QWERTY keyboard, my WPM on one is definitely lower than it used to be).
- kqp
monkeytype.com is the gold standard here. Typing tests are a dime a dozen because you can make a bad one in 15 minutes, but Monkeytype seems to actually be made with care. Never tried typ.ing before but it seems better than the cheapo ones, but less polished than Monkeytype. It adds keyboard navigation and code snippet presets and syntax highlighting over Monkeytype, which may be why it’s posted here.
- absoluteunit1
If you want something with more advanced analytics that also targets your weak points, give https://typequicker.com a try.
- ymc9
I used to be a very fast (and accurate) typer, and the very first thing that makes me aware of aging is the drop of typing performance.
- nesk_
https://keybr.com is also a really good tool to learn typing on your keyboard.
- itake
I wish you could choose the language. I ended up building my own tool to practice typing in Vietnamese:
- hliyan
I do love the fact that I can use this interface without touching the mouse or touchpad. Between the /, Enter and Esc keys, I can pretty much get to anywhere within the application. Even within settings, you can just start typing "Line..." and it will take you to Line Width setting. Wish more applications did this. Easier to develop, easier on the resources, and easier to automate. Alas, it doesn't help maximize engagement metrics, so most consumer applications never do.