Extra practice

Daily challengeStill lockedFinish your first module.

Module 1: The home row

Jess presents the request show on Radio Ripple every morning. Listeners' messages come in on scraps of paper, by text and over the phone, and someone has to type them in fast. Jess types with two fingers and keeps looking at her keys. You're going to do it differently.

  1. 1
    F and J
  2. D and K
  3. E and I
  4. S and L
  5. The little fingers
  6. G and H
  7. Live on airFinal test

Module 2: The top row

Rita has made The Clapper, Hexham's village paper, for thirty years. The articles come in on paper, in handwriting only she can read. Every week it all has to be typed up for the printer, and the deadline is Friday.

  1. T and Y
  2. R and U
  3. The letter N
  4. Little fingers up
  5. Ring fingers up
  6. Whole sentences
  7. To the printerFinal test

Module 3: The bottom row

Noor has published cookbooks at Pot & Pen for twenty years. For the new book she collected hundreds of handwritten recipes from grandmothers all over the county. It all has to be typed up, and the printer is waiting.

  1. V and B
  2. The middle fingers down
  3. Next to N
  4. The little fingers down
  5. The ring fingers down
  6. Typing up a recipe
  7. The cookbook goes to printFinal test

Module 4: Capitals and punctuation

Lea is the archivist of Old Papers, the town archive in Shrewsbury. The cellar holds boxes of letters, diaries and postcards from a hundred years ago. For the exhibition it all has to be typed up word for word, with every capital and every mark in its place.

  1. Capitals with Shift
  2. The full stop
  3. Comma, semicolon and colon
  4. Question and exclamation marks
  5. Apostrophe and quotation marks
  6. Hyphen and brackets
  7. The exhibition opensFinal test

Module 5: Rhythm and speed

Sam runs Between the Lines, a small subtitling studio in Bath. Every film that comes in has to be subtitled within a week, line by line, at the pace of the dialogue. Here it is not only about right, but about quick as well.

  1. The hundred most used words
  2. Letter pairs
  3. Long words
  4. Typing to the beat
  5. Your first one-minute test
  6. Typing a text blind
  7. The film goes to the channelFinal test

Module 6: Numbers

Rik is the auctioneer at The Bell, the fruit auction of Evesham. Every morning hundreds of crates of apples, pears and cherries roll past, and every crate gets a number, a weight and a price. Whoever types the numbers too slowly makes the bell wait.

  1. The number row
  2. Numbers in text
  3. Arithmetic signs
  4. The numeric keypad
  5. Lists of numbers
  6. A test with numbers
  7. The cherry auctionFinal test

Module 7: Accents and symbols

Hélène has made chocolates in Whitby for fifteen years. Her shop is called Cocoa & Crème, and every chocolate has a French name with an accent. Now a webshop is coming, with e-mails, orders and prices in euros for the Continent, and everything has to be spelt right.

  1. é, è, à and ç
  2. The diaeresis: ë, ï and ü
  3. ê, â, ô and capitals with an accent
  4. @ and €
  5. The symbols behind AltGr
  6. A test with accents and symbols
  7. The webshop goes liveFinal test

Module 8: Professional typing

Lies runs The Workbench, a coworking space in an old furniture factory in Kendal. Freelancers, a baker with a webshop, a team of students: everyone needs something. You sit at the front desk, and everything goes through the keyboard.

  1. An e-mail and a letter
  2. Typing up a source
  3. Editing without the mouse
  4. Shortcuts
  5. Symbols for formulas and code
  6. Stamina: five minutes
  7. A day at the front deskFinal test

Badges

  • First lineYour first typing lesson done.not earned yet
  • Home rowEvery lesson on the home row done.not earned yet
  • Not one slipA line of 20 characters or more without one wrong key.not earned yet
  • Against the clockYour first typing test done.not earned yet
  • FlawlessA lesson without a single mistake.not earned yet
  • Goal reachedReached your daily goal.not earned yet
  • On a rollPractised 3 days in a row.not earned yet
  • A full weekPractised 7 days in a row.not earned yet
  • Flawless moduleEvery lesson of a module without mistakes.not earned yet
  • ChallengerWon your first daily challenge.not earned yet
  • UnstoppableWon the daily challenge 7 days in a row.not earned yet
  • Final test passedPassed the final test of a module.not earned yet
  • Every final testPassed every final test.not earned yet