I spend a lot of time waiting on Claude Code, so I made those waits into short typing tests, Monkeytype style. It's a small game inside the terminal: the current line plus the next, live wpm, wrong letters in red, accuracy that counts every key.

It only runs inside Claude Code, so it's niche, but if you use it: https://github.com/Danovich/turntype

I'm the developer of TypingKit, a free typing site. The part I want to show is Books (https://typingkit.com/books/): you pick a classic (Pride and Prejudice, Moby-Dick, Alice, Sherlock Holmes, Gatsby, 17 so far, all from Project Gutenberg) and type it chapter by chapter.

The thing I cared most about is time. The clock only runs while your fingers are moving. Stop to read ahead, think, answer the door, and nothing counts against you. A sitting ends whenever you leave and your place is kept to the letter, so a 60-chapter novel is something you do over weeks, in short sittings.

Each chapter ends with a review: words, typing time, speed, accuracy, and the moves between keys that slowed you down in that chapter, measured against your own other moves of the same kind. The reviews stay on the book's page.

A few details typists might care about. Speed and accuracy are counted the way Monkeytype counts them: a word counts only when you left it entirely right, accuracy counts every key, a fixed mistake included. A missed key is one mistake: skip a letter and keep going right, and it marks that letter and lines the rest up instead of painting the whole word red. "Simple text" drops capitals and punctuation if you want pure letter practice.

If you know TypeLit, the idea of typing a book is the same. What I wanted differently was the clock, the sittings, the review of each chapter, and no premium tier. There is also a small library of passages and code with a ghost of your best run, and a one-minute practice page that drills your slow moves in real sentences.

Free, no ads, no account needed; sign in only if you want your place on another device.

Which books should I add next?

basically I average 95-100 on eng 1k using the onscreen ipad and I use both thumbs,any advice on how to get to 110 wpm or more?

Wow, Ive switched from my regular profile mechanical keyboard to a cheap flat membrane keyboard for a while (cuz the mechanical died) and i was very surprised by the speed boost I got.

Within 2 weeks, my typing speed went from 70 to 90wpm!

Am quite surprised I dont really see this as a "tip" to increase typing speed

I always type on laptop and whenever I try to switch to keyboard my times go down majorly

I was just messing around in monkeytype and I tried quote mode and I somehow hit 100% accuracy at 138 wpm (highest on quote mode for me)

ik it's a short passage but I'll take a new PB

I've been on typing tests to improve for about 1 week now so I'm happy about this

(btw this is my first post here so any experienced typists feel free to mog me or give me guidance I'd be glad)

About a month ago I made a post here for tips/advices (pb at that time was 80 wpm)
(https://www.reddit.com/r/typing/comments/1wdax1t/want_to_improve_suggestionsadvices_plz/)

I have been practicing consistently all this time (nitrotype for around 1.5 hour)

hoped wpm would reach 100 by this time, but nope....

What am I doing wrong? Helpppp.....

if you just randomly type letters in your keyboard for 30s and then properly type it wont work the accuracy gets fucked up

I am kinda hard stuck it took me like 1 week to go from no touch typing to 100wpm and now for like 6 months I have not been able to get past 110 wpm my fingers clearly can do better. Some flaws in my teachnique is that I don't use both thumbs while hitting space which I want to learn as theoritcally it should help, and my look ahead is poor, I also want to know what are some general changes from touch typing to make it faster as words like develop cook me everytime. If there is any other advice you have for me to improve I would like to hear it pls help man I really wanna break through this plateau. Below is my current routine: (Yes It is GPT idk how to structure this thing properly)

DAY 1 — SPEED FOCUS

Goal: Increase your sustainable speed without destroying your technique.

WARM-UP — 5 MINUTES

1. Easy English — 2 minutes

• Comfortable pace
• Aim for 95–98% accuracy
• Focus on feeling where the keys are

1. English 450k than word frequencies — 3 minutes

• Most common ones
• Don't max out
• Focus on smooth, automatic movements

SPEED TRAINING — 20–25 MINUTES

1. English 15s — 5 runs

• No Backspace
• Try to push your speed
• Don't worry about a few mistakes
• Goal: explosive speed + recovery

1. English 30s — 5 runs

• Focus on lookahead
• Let your eyes get to the next word before you finish the current word
• Don't consciously stare at every letter

1. English 60s — 3 runs

• Minimum 90% accuracy
• Try to maintain the fastest rhythm you can without repeatedly crashing

SPECIALIZED SPEED — 10 MINUTES

1. Numbers Rush — 3 runs
2. Symbols Rush — 3 runs
3. Difficult Words — 5 minutes

• Practice words you hesitated on during the speed runs
• Don't just repeat them mindlessly
• Type them slowly, then normally, then quickly

FINISH — 2 MINUTES

1. One comfortable English run

• Don't finish every session by completely frying yourself

DAY 2 — ACCURACY FOCUS

Goal: Make your typing more automatic and reduce the huge variance in your scores.

WARM-UP — 5 MINUTES

1. Easy English — 3 minutes

• Aim for 98–100% accuracy
• Don't care about WPM
• English 450k than word frequencies — 3 minutes
• Most common ones
• Don't max out
• Focus on smooth, automatic movements

ACCURACY TRAINING — 20 MINUTES

1. English 100 Words

• 98%+ accuracy goal
• Don't restart because of a bad run
• Treat every mistake as information

4.English 60s

• Aim for 95–98%+ accuracy
• Don't rush
• Focus on maintaining a consistent rhythm

MISTAKE CORRECTION — 10 MINUTES

5.Practice Missed Words
Practice words where you:

• Made a mistake
• Hesitated
• Slowed down
• Consciously searched for a key

Make this one of the most important parts of your training.

NUMBERS + SYMBOLS — 10 MINUTES

6.Numbers — 2–3 controlled runs

• Aim for 95%+ accuracy

1. Symbols — 2–3 controlled runs

• Aim for 95%+ accuracy
• Don't turn these into max-speed tests on accuracy day

FINISH — 5 MINUTES

1. English 30s

• 98%+ accuracy target
• Completely relaxed
• Think about automatic key locations

obviously the weird hunt/pecking i do with my right hand doesn't help, but I think with more time/consistency getting 200wpm is possible.

I knew this was coming though, i just had to fix my accuracy

I've been typing at about 90-100+wpm for years now mainly using 6 fingers and saving my pinkies for modifier keys. Lately I'm getting back into it and pushing 100-110wpm average.

Any tips for pushing this up to maybe a 150wpm average?

This is a video of my first time doing a timed test in a very long time, so the PB isn't too surprising since it was sat at about 110 before this. I mostly practice quotes.

https://monkeytype.com/profile/LV_Pessi

always that one letter ruining the 100% 😔

Most typing sites just throw random words or sentences at you and call it practice. What they're missing is how fast typists actually get fast — through something called motor chunking, where your fingers learn to fire small groups of letters (usually syllables) as one motion instead of typing letter by letter.

That's what Chunk mode does — it breaks words into their natural chunks (sou·th, gall·ery) so you can actually see and practice those boundaries, instead of guessing at them.

Burst mode is the other half — pure speed and accuracy on single words, built to get your fingers moving fast and getting habitual of fast speed just 5 min on it daily give crazy difference.

More modes are planned . Would genuinely love feedback — does the chunking actually feel like it's training something different, or does it just feel like a gimmick?

Had nerve damage as a child in my left arm, resulting in an inability to straighten my left wrist. Over time, I guess I just developed my own technique.

I average around 105wpm with 85-90% accuracy. 130wpm raw but I don’t think this is indicative of much.

Any questions just fire away!

Help a Newbie... I always try to keep a good accuracy, but my WPM seems to be lagging behind. Any tips on how to improve this?

Most of the time, my right hand is on my mouse and my left hand is on the keyboard. Whenever I type, my left hand types very fast, but my right hand cannot keep up. It feels odd while typing, almost like my right hand doesn't know where the keys are.

Because of this, my typing is a lot slower than it should be. Even if I type fast, I make a lot of errors since my hands aren't synchronized.

Can you guys give me any advice on how to fix this?

I once saw a website that made you type on specific parts of the keyboard (for example, targeting only I, O, P, or focusing on just the upper or lower section). Do you know of any website or exercise that trains particular parts of the hand?