Free typing practice sites compared: which one should you use?

How we compared them

TypingPractice.ai is our site, so read this with that in mind. We checked every fact about the other sites on their own pages in November 2026, and list those pages in the sources. Where a site doesn’t say something, we haven’t guessed: “Not listed” in the tables means we couldn’t find it there, not that the feature is missing. Prices change, so check before you pay.

The sites at a glance

What each costs, and whether you need to sign up:

What you can practice and test:

What each site does well

TypingPractice.ai: practice built from every keystroke

This one is ours. TypingPractice.ai times every keystroke, compares each key and two-key move with your own average, and fills practice with the ones that cost you the most, moving on as they improve. It suits anyone who wants free practice aimed at their own weak spots, from beginners to fast typists.

• Price, ads and account: free, no ads, no signup. Your profile stays in your browser; signing in with Google, also free, saves it to your account.
• Lessons and kids: a Learning to type path of 17 short lessons, from the home row to the number row, with stars instead of a speed score; a touch typing path whose keyboard guide fades as you learn each key; and typing adventures for children, short stories that use only the keys they know.
• Tests and progress: a typing test of 15 seconds to 5 minutes, a free certificate for a 3- or 5-minute test taken while signed in, and a habits page with your slow keys, common slips and progress by day.
• Data: our privacy page lists everything sent, including a summary of your typing numbers to OpenAI if you use an AI feature.

keybr: lessons that adapt letter by letter

keybr builds every lesson from your own typing. It starts with a few common letters, adds the next once you type them fast enough, and puts the letter that gives you the most trouble in every word. Most words are made up but pronounceable, and the site’s source code is on GitHub. It suits learners who like a system that decides what to practice, and anyone learning Dvorak, Colemak or another of its dozens of layouts.

• Price and ads: free with ads; a premium account, a one-time payment, removes them.
• Account: optional; without one, your data stays on your computer.
• Also: common words, books, your own text or code; multiplayer races, a high-score table and charts of your speed on each key.
• Data: its privacy policy says it won’t rent or sell personal information, and premium also removes the trackers that come with ads.

Monkeytype: a clean, customizable speed test

Monkeytype calls itself a minimalistic, customizable typing test: a clean screen, many themes and settings, and detailed results with speed, raw speed, accuracy, consistency and a graph. Tests use common English words by default, or other languages. It suits typists who already know the keyboard and want to measure and push their speed.

• Price and ads: free, supported by donations, optional ads and merchandise. One ad shows on the results by default, and you can turn ads off in settings.
• Account: optional, but needed to save your results; there are leaderboards.
• Weak spots: after a test, Practice words lets you retype the words you missed or typed slowly.
• Data: its privacy policy says custom texts stay in your browser, and it uses Google Analytics.

TypingClub: a guided, gamified course

TypingClub turns learning into a game, with stars, levels and badges, and says it is, and always will be, free for individuals and schools. Jungle Junior is a lesson plan for young learners, a voice-over can read each word aloud, and there are courses in many languages, plus Dvorak and one-handed typing. It suits beginners, children and schools, which can buy a paid School Edition.

• Price and ads: the free version shows ads. The ad-free Premium Edition, with extra games and detailed reports, is listed at $78 a year.
• Account: optional, but without one you can’t save your progress.
• Data: its privacy policy says the free version uses your information for targeted ads, but information about children isn’t used to advertise to them.

Typing.com: a classroom curriculum with problem-key drills

Typing.com is built for schools: a standards-aligned curriculum from kindergarten to adult, with games, achievements, test prep and a free teacher portal. It also records the keys you miss and drills your worst ones, with short AI-written stories around them. It suits students, teachers and homeschoolers.

• Price and ads: the free edition shows ads; PLUS removes them and adds content, as a monthly subscription for one person, priced at checkout.
• Account: free, to practice. Children under 13 need a parent, guardian or teacher to create it.
• Tests: 1, 3 or 5 minutes, or 1 to 3 pages, with printable certificates.
• Weak keys: drills on 3 or 4 problem keys need PLUS.
• Data: it says personal information is never required, shared or sold.

10FastFingers: one-minute tests and live races

10FastFingers centers on a one-minute test of common words in more than 50 languages, and says everything on the site is free. You can race up to 20 people live, join 24-hour competitions or take an advanced test drawn from 1,000 words. After a run, a heatmap shows which words and letter combinations slowed you down. It suits typists who want a quick check, a race or a contest.

• Ads: yes, managed by Mediavine.
• Account: optional; a free one saves your results and progress and puts you on the high-score lists.
• Data: without an account, its privacy policy says, results are stored under a pseudonymous daily ID and deleted after 3 days.

Ratatype: a course with a certificate

Ratatype pairs a typing tutor of short lessons and exercises with a typing test. Finishing a course earns a certificate you can add to LinkedIn, and teachers can run classes free, synced with Google Classroom. Courses cover English (QWERTY, AZERTY or Dvorak) and several other languages. It suits learners who want a structured course with a certificate at the end.

• Price and ads: free for up to 10 exercises a day. Ratatype Plus ($9.99 a month or $49.99 a year) adds unlimited exercises and removes Ratatype’s own banners; there are no third-party ads.
• Account: needed for the tutor and certificates, not for the test.
• Data: its privacy policy says it never sells personal data.

TypeQuicker: AI-built drills and detailed stats

TypeQuicker’s SmartPractice mode uses AI to find the keys, bigrams and trigrams you struggle with and builds exercises around them, and its stats track progress, weak points and hand and finger gains, with replays. It also has row-by-row lessons, code typing in many programming languages, and practice for Dvorak, Colemak and QWERTZ. It says it’s made for adults, and suits typists who want detailed analysis and are happy to pay for it.

• Price: its advanced practice and analytics come with paid plans, from $12.50 a month billed yearly or $15 monthly; its typing tests are free.
• Account: a free account adds progress tracking and statistics.
• Tests: 15 seconds to 10 minutes, plus tests of numbers, symbols or data entry.
• Data: its privacy policy says it collects typing performance data, time on site and pages visited.

For young children: BBC Dance Mat Typing

Dance Mat Typing is a free BBC Bitesize game for primary school children: ten worlds of four levels each, from the home row to the top and bottom rows, with characters who show how to type each key. The BBC says you’ll need a physical keyboard, and headphones or speakers to enjoy it fully.

Which one should you choose?

• Learning from scratch: TypingClub for a guided game, keybr if you like letters unlocking one at a time, or TypingPractice.ai’s Learning to type path, with no ads or account.
• A young child: BBC Dance Mat Typing, TypingClub’s Jungle Junior or our typing adventures. Our guide to typing for kids covers when to start.
• A class or school: Typing.com or TypingClub, or Ratatype’s free classes.
• Weak keys holding you back: keybr, TypingPractice.ai, Typing.com or TypeQuicker’s SmartPractice. Our plan for typing faster explains why that focus pays off.
• Checking your speed: Monkeytype, 10FastFingers or our typing test; then see what a good typing speed is.
• Racing other people: 10FastFingers or keybr.
• A certificate for a job application: Typing.com, Ratatype, or TypingPractice.ai’s 3- and 5-minute tests while signed in. None of them is supervised, so an employer may test you again.
• Another layout or language: keybr or TypeQuicker for Dvorak and Colemak; keybr, Monkeytype or 10FastFingers for other languages.
• No ads, no account: TypingPractice.ai, or Monkeytype with ads off.

What TypingPractice.ai lacks

We’d rather you find the right site than pick ours by default. TypingPractice.ai doesn’t have:

• races, multiplayer or leaderboards;
• languages other than English, for now, or layouts other than US QWERTY, which its keyboard guide and finger patterns assume;
• teacher dashboards or classes;
• typing games for grown-ups, though a pacer can race you during practice (children get story adventures);
• a long track record: it launched in November 2026.

It works on phones, but it’s built for physical keyboards.