I'm a Canadian solo indie developer, writer & sound engineer / lifelong musician and retro gamer. I just released a free learn to type tool as Three Up Games. I grew up with games like Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing and Typing of the Dead (and retro consoles)

Orchard Teaches Typing is a retro collection of 4 unique typing games which you can play to help improve your typing speed / accuracy & learn to type. Fun nostalgic throwbacks to the era of classic PC gaming like the Commodore 64, Atari 2600, Apple II, etc.

Turn on the retro Orchard Gaming System and once it boots up, load a cartridge! Play four different typing games:

🦀 Typing of the Crab 🦀 Defend the crabapple trees from the wandering crabs - Type words to defeat them, unlock unique power ups & get through all the waves to fight the Boss.

🎃 Under A Witch's Spelling 🎃\ Happy Halloween 2026!!* Grow & harvest ripe pumpkins in the Halloween harvest - Type words to harvest pumpkins & fend off ghoulish ghosts - then carve 3 of the pumpkins for Halloween!.

🍲 It's Typing Hot! 🍲 Follow the steps to prepare recipes for a four course meal - Type the words as they appear, then see what the Head Chef thinks of your meal.

🏴‍☠️ ARRR-Type 🏴‍☠️ Sail across the sea to search for treasure, pick the locks on the chests and collect the coins inside - you never know when you'll be attacked by an enemy ship. Ready the cannons!

*turning off the console or removing a cartridge while playing will auto-save & recall your progress

Available here for absolutely FREE:
Orchard Teaches Typing 🍊 by 3UP_Moon

AI Disclaimer: The coding, animation and UI was built only with the assistance of AI tools (like Codepen & Codex). No Language Learning Models (LLMs) or generative art are used in this game.

^{Sound, level & game design by 3UP\}Moon)
^{Additional music from ASCII (RPG Maker 2000})
^{Erik Satie, and Camille Saint-Saëns}

When I'm really trying hard to push up my typing speed on typing games I at most usually pull around 80WPM. I know people who can type at like 120 - so how do I get to that level? Tons of practice? is there some method I should know about that helps people type faster?

Hey everyone! What are the best settings for practicing on monkeytype to increase wpm and why? Like English vs english 1k also 30s vs 60s etc?? I think theres a section for quotes too i’m just a bit confused on which would actually help me progress
Thank you.

I am 31 years old autistic and I want to learn how to type but can't handle timers and a slow learner, along with the other impairments that come with autism, like rigid thinking.

Can you please recommend free software for me to learn how to type on a keyboard? especially if you are autistic yourself.

Hello all! I just want to get right to the point here. I am just here trying to give away some keys to this community for a typing game where you type classic literature. It's good typing practice and good material!

I'm not even going to mention the name of it because i'm not here for promotion, just to give some keys away if the mods allow it.

Drop a comment or DM me and i'll hook you up (first come first serve, for now)

EDIT:

Hey everyone! Thanks for commenting and receiving a key for Writificer!

I will be doing more giveaways in the future, but in the mean time, add Writificer to your Steam wishlist:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/5323240/Writificer/

HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

And my talents extend beyond that

I wish I was loved though [except for my spiritual experience :D ]

I was able to do 120 WPM perfectly for the full minute on old 10fastfingers where it used the more archaic setup and randomly capitalized words

The new 10fastfingers looks weird and is easier :/

Realistically none of you would know how I can get faster but I always want to get faster later

I can also spontaneously shoot half court shots in basketball but I barely play and I have a lot of trauma and I used to be very handsome till my head was poisoned by my toxic mom and myself

I also had a gun pulled on me once it was wiiiiiiiild

I am kinda depressed but I had a good life if It's over now but I want a better life too and I deserve it I think god will give me it too I'm not saying that out of entitlement and optimism btw

I'm not sure If I can do it now but I used to be able to type 120 WPM perfectly as a kid

When I say perfectly I mean 100% accuracy and no mistakes were made

Also I can shoot half court shots and I barely play basketball

I am neurodivergent with ocd tendencies and I wanted to get started in Copy Typing and/or Data Entry. I can type quickly and accurately, and I know how to use Google Docs. (I’m working on learning how to use Microsoft Word). I’d like to work remotely (I am introverted and don’t like talking to strangers). Any advice?

I can already touch type and have a decent speed and accuracy measure. That said, I do not type 'evenly' across my two hands which is leading to some pain in my right hand.

With my left hand I use all four fingers to type and this seems to work just fine for me. I probably bias on my index and middle finger but all are used when I type.

However, with my right hand I can only really use my index and middle fingers to type. This is meant that I end up stretching those two fingers when I type, meaning I am prone to getting pain in both fingers and in the joints as a result. I use my my right thumb exclusively for space, and my right little finger for hitting the return key.

Any tips on how I can re-learn how to touch type with all of these fingers would be much appreciated. I have tried keybr but this seems to be focused more on learning to type from scratch - although if that's the best way to go about it then that's also fine!

edit: using a standard qwerty us layout board :)

When typing a word like “hurry” can I use right index for h and right middle for u. The reason I ask is because u is attributed to right index but if right index is already occupied with h then wouldn’t it be better to just have right middle handle u?

Broo i literally type like finger by finger and the speed is 35 wpm , so I just want o ask that how can I improve my hand ( fingers ) placement on keyboard so I can type with like all fingers ! 😅

I looked it up but don't know which sites or things to look at. Ideally I want basically an equivalent of typingclub: a bunch of individual lessons / modules: not just a bunch of drills but also memorizing the key layout. I want to do it mainly to type much faster than 100wpm, I installed plover on my pc and looked at the layout on my qwerty keyboard.

How should I practice typing a repeated string of characters (JOLj;o;l; (capitals only the first time) with no spaces and character per minute tracking? My goal is to hit patterns such as this one in games.

So Im a bit good at touch typing although i’ve never learnt formally so my accuracy is a bit off and I would occasionally look at my keyboards sometimes and I have a current speed of 49WPM with 98% accuracy which is like basic for a lot of people on here but I found this reddit and realised theres actually sites to learn this and got intrigued lol!

I started learning this week from scratch with typing club and im doing that simultaneously with keybr, and its been so humbling because I am trying to focus on accuracy over speed and also trying to force myself to not look at the keyboard haha. I’m trying to build a habit so I do at least 10 minutes a day ideally I want to do 30 mins but its exam season for me and I dont want to push it until after exams.

This post is just to like record my Day 1 and hopefully I can keep on making progress. My main goal would be reaching an average speed of around 90-100 WPM with at least 98% accuracy and it may take me a while but im excited because I do love typing.

Hey There!
So I started from zero on Typing.com and then completed Keybr.com with each letter in the green. I ended around 50 wpm with the accuracy in the 99% range consistently. This is an improvement, but still rather slow for my work which is typing heavy.

What would you guys recommend for my next steps in terms of practicing? Either a specific exercise or website to follow/ speed goal? I'd like to maybe practice something that includes basic punctuation and capitalization so it is more useful in my day to day routine.

Any advise on next steps would be appreciated!

Personal Realistic Share:

I embarked on the journey to learn how to touch type about 7 weeks ago. I did the regular hunt and peck with 2-4 fingers for most of my life. When I tested it my speed with it, I got around 40wpm on a good run.

Learning to touch type was difficult. When I learnt the first 3 rows in a week, I was struggling to get over 10 wpm as I was trying to embed not looking down at all.

Consistency is key though! I practiced for atleast 30 minutes every day and after 7 weeks. My Monkey Type 15 second score is 74 WPM and 60 WPM for 60 seconds. My average everyday speed with capitals, symbols and numbers is around 40-50wpm.

It is definitely worth it! I would advise after you learn the shift key, numbers and symbols. Try your hardest to never to go back to your old typing style. This was a week of agony at work but so glad I did it.

My goal is to reach 100 WPM and then reach 100 WPM as my average typing speed (not sure if this is realistic, but I'm going to try anyway). I will add a 3 month progress update to this post when I get there.

3 Month Update:

I have stopped practising daily and only really put in some practice when my workload allows. This looks like roughly 1 - 2 hrs a week of practice.

I have started to notice very slow progress and I have to be more intentional with my practice. Prioritising consistency and accuracy and actually learning the "Grove" to some of the more difficult words. I am pretty happy with my overall 3 month progress.

Here are my Monkey Type results:

15 seconds - 83 WPM

60 seconds - 71 WPM

My typing speed including punctuation and numbers averages around 55 - 65 WPM.

so i gave a pte mock test last week and writing part went really bad. my whole focus went on the typos and fixing them, i was not even thinking about the sentence. rhythm got disturbed completly and the para came out weak. i know what i want to write but my typing speed is slow and it eats all my time.

so can i go with ielts instead? i read somewhere ielts has paper based option where u write by hand. if thats true then typing is not a issue for me at all, i write way faster on paper then i type.

few things i want to know

**1.** is paper based ielts still available everywhere or only some centres? (riyadh, KSA)
**2.** does handwriting affect the score if its readable but not neat?
**3.** anyone here who moved from pte to ielts for same reason, did ur writing score improve?

also if someone thinks i should just practise typing and stay with pte then pls tell me how long it took u to get comfortable.

thanks

Need help

Hi all! I posted here 4 days ago (got 2k views, thank you!) starting at 21 WPM / 76% accuracy.

I've been practicing daily on FastFingers but I'm stuck at 25-28 WPM range. When I try to go faster, my accuracy drops to 60%.

Current routine: 20-30 mins daily practice

Goal: 40 WPM with 90%+ accuracy

For those who crossed 40 WPM, what changed for you?

- Should I focus only on accuracy for now?

- Any specific drills or sites you recommend?

- How long did it take you to go from 20s to 40s?

Thanks in advance! 😊

One thing that always put me off learning to touch type was that my existing typing method seemed perfectly adequate - and I suspected I was already faster than the average typist.

Using my normal hunt-and-peck method, if I type as fast as I can, I can comfortably exceed 60 WPM with surprisingly good accuracy. I also don't need to look at the keyboard constantly. My technique is fairly unconventional: one finger on my right hand, two on my left, plus a thumb for the space bar.

Now that I'm learning proper touch typing with Keybr, both my speed and accuracy have dropped considerably - and that's before I've even introduced all the letters. Every time Keybr adds another letter, my speed and accuracy take another hit.

I realise that's probably inevitable because I'm replacing years of established muscle memory with a completely new technique.

What keeps me going is the thought that 60+ WPM with essentially four digits suggests I might eventually have quite a high ceiling with touch typing using nine digits. I suspect I've already reached something close to the practical limit of my hunt-and-peck technique, whereas with touch typing I could potentially get beyond 100 WPM once the new muscle memory is established.

• Has anyone else switched to touch typing after already being a relatively fast hunt-and-peck typist?
• How long did it take before your touch-typing speed caught up with your old method, and did you ultimately end up significantly faster?
• Also a thought just hit me. Do touch typists tend to use a maximum of 9, or 10 digits?

I'm korean speaker but what a result XD