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Nursery rhymes

Learn to type on rhymes you already know

The hardest part of a first typing lesson is reading unfamiliar words and hunting for keys at the same time. A rhyme a child knows by heart removes half the problem, so the keyboard gets all the attention.

44 rhymes, free, no account needed to try one

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Every rhyme in the collection

Ordered easiest first. The short ones are a few lines and the longer ones run to a verse or two, so a child can move up as their hands settle.

Why rhymes and not sentences about foxes

A beginner typing an unfamiliar passage is doing two jobs: working out what the next word is, and working out where its letters live. Take the first job away and the practice does what it is for. Rhymes also punctuate heavily, which is exactly the shift-key work a general passage skips.

Where the text comes from

Every rhyme is traditional and out of copyright, transcribed from a printing made before 1900 or from a faithful transcription of one. We do not use modern illustrated editions, because modern editors rewrite lines. Rhymes with a named twentieth-century author are not here, however traditional they feel.

Also in Welsh, and not a translation

The Welsh page is a different set of rhymes, not this one translated. They are real hwiangerddi collected in 1911, which is what a Welsh-medium class actually sings.

Gweld yr hwiangerddi Cymraeg

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