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Learn to touch type, one key at a time
Keyshand is a free typing trainer that measures every key you press and builds the next lesson around the ones holding you back. Start above with no account and nothing to install — signed out, everything it records stays in your own browser.
Every key is measured on its own
Speed, accuracy and hesitation are recorded per letter, not per run. That is what makes it possible to say which keys are costing you time, instead of giving you one number and leaving you to guess.
Lessons are written around your weakest key
The generator finds the letter currently holding you back and builds text that over-represents it — in real words, in real sentence shapes, so you are practising language rather than reciting a drill.
The alphabet widens only when you have earned it
You start on five letters and a new one arrives only once everything already in play is fast and accurate. Progress is a consequence of your own typing rather than of a lesson number going up.
Common questions
- Is it Keyshand or Keyhand?
- Keyshand, with an s in the middle — key-s-hand — and the site is at keyshand.com. It was called Keyhand before it was renamed, so both names point at the same typing trainer, and the s is coloured in the logo because it is an easy letter to miss.
- Is Keyshand free?
- Yes, entirely. Every layout, every language, every lesson and every statistic is free, there is no paid tier, and you are never asked for a card. An account is optional and only exists so your progress can follow you to another device.
- Do I need an account to use it?
- No. The trainer works fully signed out, and everything it records — your settings, your per-key statistics, your course progress and your history — is kept in your own browser and sent nowhere.
- How is Keyshand different from other typing tests?
- A typing test tells you one number. Keyshand measures every key separately and uses that to decide what you practise next: it finds the letter you are slowest and least accurate on and writes the next lesson around it. The test is here too, but it is the measurement, not the method.
- How long does it take to learn to touch type?
- Most people can type the whole alphabet without looking after two to three weeks of ten to fifteen minutes a day. Speed comes more slowly and for longer: 40 WPM is a comfortable few months, and past that the gains come from accuracy and evenness rather than from trying to go faster.
- Which keyboard layouts are supported?
- QWERTY, Dvorak, Colemak, QWERTZ and AZERTY. The on-screen keyboard, the fingering and the lesson order all follow whichever you choose, so switching layout means relearning the keys rather than reading a chart.
- What is a good typing speed?
- Around 40 words per minute is average for someone who types daily without formal training. 60 to 70 is a confident touch typist, and above 90 is fast by any measure. Accuracy matters more than either: at 95% accuracy one key in twenty is a correction, and corrections cost more time than slow keys do.
- Can I practise typing code?
- Yes. One of the four courses is built for it, and the practice corpus includes a code mode that drills brackets, operators and identifiers in the shapes they actually appear in rather than as isolated symbols.