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Typing practice for students, class 5 to 8

Pick your class and practise for ten to fifteen minutes a day. Each class has its own exercises, built from the words that class is already reading in Science, Maths and English, and introduces one new keyboard skill rather than everything at once. Free, no account, and no advertising while a student is typing.

Choose a class

Class 510 to 11 yearsShort words and simple sentences, using the correct finger every time.Typical 12–18 WPMClass 611 to 12 yearsLonger subject words, with capital letters typed using Shift.Typical 16–22 WPMClass 712 to 13 yearsCompound sentences with numbers, dates and direct speech.Typical 20–27 WPMClass 813 to 14 yearsFull paragraphs at an even pace, with the punctuation exams expect.Typical 25–32 WPM

How the classes progress

Typing skills and targets by school class
ClassTypicalGoodNew skill
Class 512–1822Typing without looking down, and using the full stop and comma.
Class 616–2227Shift with the opposite hand, and the question mark.
Class 720–2732The number row without looking, and quotation marks.
Class 825–3238Brackets, colons and semicolons, and holding speed over 200 characters.

Speeds in words per minute. Observed ranges rather than an official standard — no board prescribes a typing speed for these classes.

Why the text is different for each class

Most typing sites give a class 5 student and a class 12 student the same passage. That is not practice pitched at a class; it is the same practice with the class number in the title.

Here the difference is real, on three axes at once. The vocabulary comes from what the class is actually studying, so the reading is easy and the typing is the hard part. The character set widens one class at a time — class 5 never meets a digit or a bracket, class 7 introduces the number row, class 8 adds semicolons and parentheses. And the length grows, so a class 5 line finishes before concentration goes while a class 8 passage is long enough to test whether a pace holds.

Teaching a whole class

No accounts, no installs, and it works on a school network in an ordinary browser. If you want more than practice, the full course runs from finding the F key through to typing code, and names the correct finger for every key.

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Questions from parents and teachers

Which class should my child start with?

Start with their actual school class. The pages are graded on vocabulary and punctuation rather than on speed, so a class 7 student who types slowly should still use the class 7 page — the words will be familiar and only the typing will be hard. Drop back a class only if they have never touch typed at all.

Is this typing practice free for schools?

Yes, completely, with no account required and no trial period. A whole class can use it without anyone signing up. There is no advertising on any page where a student is typing, which is enforced by an allow-list in the code rather than by policy alone.

What is the difference between the class pages and the lessons?

The class pages are practice pitched at a school year, and you can use one in a single sitting. The lessons are a structured course of several hundred levels that starts from finding the F key and introduces one key at a time. Use a class page for regular practice, and the course if you want to teach typing properly over a term.

How long does it take a student to learn typing?

Around six to eight weeks of ten to fifteen minutes a day to type without looking, and several months beyond that to become genuinely fast. The first week usually feels slower than hunting and pecking did, which is normal and is the point at which most students give up.

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