Free 10 Finger Typing Course: Typing Lessons and Exercises for Beginners

10 finger typing (also called ten finger typing, touch typing or blind typing) is the most useful keyboard skill you can learn in a couple of weeks. This guide works as a free typing course: it explains finger placement, gives you a 10-day plan of typing lessons, and lists the typing exercises that make the biggest difference. You can follow every step on KPC Typing, a free typing trainer that runs in your browser.

What is ten finger typing?

With ten finger typing, every finger is responsible for a fixed group of keys and your eyes stay on the screen. Two-finger typists usually stop at 20–25 words per minute; people who learn to type with all ten fingers commonly reach 40–60 WPM with fewer errors. That is why it is worth learning properly instead of trying to type faster with old habits.

Finger placement on the keyboard

Correct finger placement on the keyboard starts with the home row. Put your left fingers on A S D F and your right fingers on J K L ;. The small bumps on F and J let you find this position without looking. Your thumbs rest on the space bar. After each keystroke, the finger returns to the home row.

• Left little finger: 1, Q, A, Z plus Tab, Caps Lock and left Shift.
• Left ring finger: 2, W, S, X.
• Left middle finger: 3, E, D, C.
• Left index finger: 4, R, F, V and 5, T, G, B.
• Right index finger: 6, Y, H, N and 7, U, J, M.
• Right middle finger: 8, I, K and comma.
• Right ring finger: 9, O, L and period.
• Right little finger: 0, P, semicolon, slash plus Enter and right Shift.

Looking for free typing practice with a finger placement keyboard chart? The on-screen keyboard on KPC Typing highlights the next key and an animated hand shows which finger to use.

A 10-day plan of typing lessons

• Days 1–3: home row, top row, bottom row.
• Day 4: Shift and capital letters.
• Days 5–6: common two- and three-syllable words.
• Day 7: numbers and special characters.
• Day 8: nursery rhymes and folk verse.
• Day 9: classic poems and prose.
• Day 10: final test.

Each day has ten short lessons, so the course fits into 15–20 minutes of daily practice. This structure makes it well suited to typing for beginners.

The best typing exercises

• Home row drills: asdf jkl; and pairs such as fj, dk, sl until you never look down.
• Row changes: short words that move between rows, always returning to the home row.
• Common words: the, and, that, have, with – they make up a large share of every text.
• Full sentences: practise capitals, punctuation and an even rhythm together.

Good keyboard typing practice is short and regular. Online typing practice for a few minutes every day beats one long session per week.

Typing games online

Games keep motivation high, especially for typing for kids. KPC Typing includes balloon popping, a bee shooter, Boss Rush (type words to defeat bosses) and a 60-second speed challenge. Play them as a reward after a lesson. Read more in the best typing games for kids and adults.

Take a WPM test

A WPM test measures words per minute (one word = five keystrokes) and accuracy. On KPC Typing, mistakes still count even if you fix them with Backspace, so the result shows your real habits. Take a test once a week and write down the numbers.

Typing for students and multilingual typing

Typing for students saves hours on essays and notes, and solid keyboard skills help in almost every job. KPC Typing also supports multilingual typing: each language has its own keyboard layout, and alongside QWERTY typing practice in English you can switch to other languages without changing system settings on most desktop browsers.

FAQ

Can I touch type free of charge? Yes. The course, typing test and games on KPC Typing are free, with no account and no installation.

How long does it take to learn to type fast? About two weeks for the basics and one to two months of regular practice to type confidently without looking.