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The first five minutes of every lesson.

Pupils sit down, type for five minutes and log off. Your class sheet has updated before the starter is over.

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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Practise a little, every day, and your hands stop looking for the keys.

Mae'r llwybr yn troi wrth y bont ac yn dringo'r rhiw. Ymarfer ychydig bob dydd, ac mae'r bysedd yn cofio ble mae'r llythrennau.

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Words per minute
0
Accuracy
100%
Errors
0
Elapsed
0:00

The starter

Five minutes, timed to the bell.

A lesson starter has a shape, so the page has the same shape. Every drill runs the same four stages, so pupils know what happens next without being told.

  1. 0:00

    Hands on home row

    Eight keys, no timer, no score. Fingers find F and J by feel.

  2. 1:00

    Two new keys

    The lesson introduces a pair and drills them inside real words.

  3. 2:30

    Mixed drill

    Everything learned so far, shuffled. Errors repeat until they stop.

  4. 4:00

    Timed run

    Sixty seconds on the clock. The score writes itself to your class sheet.

Cymraeg

Welsh is not a translation layer.

A Welsh digraph is one letter and two keystrokes. TypingCoach drills them as single units, scores them as single letters, and gives the to bach its own lessons. Every drill exists in both languages, not just the buttons.

See the Welsh curriculum

Beginners

The first passage should be one they already know.

A beginner typing an unfamiliar sentence is doing two jobs at once: working out what the next word is, and working out where its letters live. A rhyme a child knows by heart takes the first job away, so the keyboard gets all the attention.

44 rhymes · free, no account needed to try one

  • Baa Baa Black Sheep
  • Diddle Diddle Dumpling
  • Hey Diddle Diddle
  • Hickory Dickory Dock
  • Hot Cross Buns
  • Humpty Dumpty

Find out more

GCSE key terms

Curated term lists, straight off the specification

For older pupils the passage may as well be the vocabulary they are marked on. Each pack is read off a WJEC specification and its Guidance for Teaching, so a Year 11 revising networks types the words the exam will ask for, in English or Welsh.

See the key term packs

Dictation

Typing at the speed of speech

Speech runs at 130 words per minute; a trained typist reaches 40. In dictation the audio sets the pace: the screen stays blank, the voice reads on, and the hands learn to keep up, rung by rung, in English and Welsh.

The ladder, in words per minute

  1. 15
  2. 20
  3. 25
  4. 30
  5. 40

See the dictation course

For teachers

Watch the room, not the screen.

Pupils join with a class code, so there is nothing to set up and no email addresses to collect. Scores land as they finish. You mark nothing.

Create a class How scoring works

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8B2 Digital Technology · Room D14 Code JLQ-482 · 28 of 31 finished
An example class sheet
Pupil Lesson WPM Accuracy This half term
Ffion Davies L12 Top row 52 98%
Rhys Morgan L12 Top row 44 95%
Megan Hughes L11 Home row 39 99%
Iwan Pritchard L12 Top row 31 88%
Cerys Bevan L13 Digraphs 47 96%
Osian Lloyd Not started – –

Features

More than the starter.

The five-minute drill is the front door. Behind it sits everything else a typing lesson needs — press a key to look around.

A curriculum, not a pile of drills.

Lessons run from home row to full sentences in a fixed order, each with a pass mark on accuracy. A pupil unlocks the next lesson by passing the last, and the completion screen names the keys they missed most.

English a Chymraeg · accuracy gates every pass

See the curriculum

One, three or five minutes on the clock.

A timed test is scored on the server against every keystroke, so the WPM on the sheet is the WPM that happened. Personal bests stand per test length, and a monthly trend shows whether hands are getting quicker.

Best WPM kept per test length

The audio sets the pace.

The screen stays blank while a voice reads the passage; the hands keep up or fall behind. The ladder climbs from 15 to 40 words per minute, and the target text never reaches the page for a pupil to copy.

15 to 40 wpm · English a Chymraeg

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Hear the word. Spell it. Try the tricky ones again.

Set your own list or start with the KS2 statutory words. Each word is read aloud, answers are marked automatically, and the class report shows exactly which spellings need another go.

Word-by-word results · Reassign the wrong ones

Try a spelling test

Type the words the exam will ask for.

Curated packs read straight off WJEC specifications: a Year 11 revising networks drills the vocabulary they are marked on. Each pack is harvested by hand from the spec and its Guidance for Teaching.

WJEC specifications · English a Chymraeg

See the packs

The other half of the input.

Aim, tracking and clicking drills scored like typing is: hit rate, precision and reaction time, replayed on the server. The figures stay separate from typing scores, and a teacher can turn the drills off per class.

Hit rate · precision · reaction time

Numbers a pupil can watch move.

Speed and accuracy charted over time, badges for the milestones on the way, and a certificate at the end of a course. Class leaderboards rank a typing score that weighs accuracy double, so fast-and-sloppy never tops the board.

Charts · badges · certificates · leaderboards

Set it, and read the report later.

Set a lesson, one of your own passages or a timed test for a class, with a due date and a target. TypingCoach marks it off as attempts land, and the report prints or exports as a CSV.

Targets · due dates · printable reports

Scores you can defend.

Every run is replayed keystroke by keystroke on the server, and the replay sets the score. Impossibly fast runs and long pauses are held back and flagged; a teacher accepts the genuine ones and discards the rest.

Server-side scoring · flagged runs held for review

How scoring works

Setting up

Your registers, not a spreadsheet.

Three ways to get a class into TypingCoach. Pick the one that matches how much of a hurry you are in.

  • From your MIS

    Import from Bromcom

    TypingCoach reads the classes your MIS says you teach this year. Check the register, press Provision, and the accounts are made. Press it again next half term and it tops the class up.

  • From a file

    Upload a CSV

    Name, email, password. Pupils already on the system are added to the class and their password is left alone.

  • No setup

    Hand out a join code

    Six characters on the board. Nothing to prepare, no email addresses to collect, works in the lesson you thought of it.

MIS import is set up once per school by whoever looks after your systems, and only ever shows a teacher their own classes.

What it is

What is TypingCoach?

TypingCoach is a web application that teaches touch typing. It provides a structured curriculum of typing lessons, free practice texts, timed typing tests and a separate set of mouse skills drills, available in both English and Welsh, and tracks your speed and accuracy as you improve. Teachers create classes, bring in their registers from the school's MIS or a CSV file, and follow the progress of every pupil from a single dashboard.

You can create a TypingCoach account directly, or sign in with your Google or Microsoft account. When you sign in this way, we use only your name and email address to create your account and save your typing progress. Nothing else is accessed, and you can read exactly how we handle your data in our Privacy Policy.

Give it five minutes.

Open a passage, type one line, and see where your hands actually are.

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