10 Best Free Typing Lessons for Kids and Adults

Typing.com: Track Your Progress

Typing.com has free typing lessons for beginner, intermediate, and advanced typists. It's geared towards middle school kids all the way up to adults.

During each lesson, there's nothing else to distract you from your typing except for a virtual keyboard showing where the letters are and which fingers to use. When done, you get to see your speed, accuracy, and the time it took you to finish, and you don't even need to lift your hands off the keyboard to move on to the next lesson; just press Enter.

Registration isn't required, but with it, you can track your progress and earn awards. Registration is free.

There's a Teacher portal available for teachers so that they can manage and track the progress of their students as they complete the typing lessons.

TypingClub: Hundreds of Lessons

There are hudrends of typing lessons at TypingClub, where you'll learn the alphabet keys, shift key, numbers, and symbols. There are also lessons that focus especially on speed. You can jump to any of them whenever you like, or you can take placement tests to prove your skills.

While you go through these, you'll be able to view your speed and accuracy. If you sign up for a free account, you'll be able to keep track of your progress as you go through all the lessons, as well as record your highest WPM of all time and review some other stats.

Teachers can use TypingClub where they can monitor their students' progress, customize the lessons, and even manage multiple classes.

The Premium edition removes ads and includes story typing, games, replay attempts, more themes, and additional typing reports.

Ratatype: Learn in Order

There are over a dozen free typing lessons at Ratatype, and before starting them, you're given several tips for how to sit at your computer, which is something most of these sites pass over.

Something unique about this keyboarding lesson website is that if you make too many mistakes during a lesson, you're forced to start over. Once you make a reasonable amount of typos, or none at all, you can move forward with more lessons.

You get to see your typo count and WPM while you're typing and even compete with others in a high score list.

Speed Typing Online: Set Your Own Goals

Speed Typing Online has 17 classic lessons that include learning all the letters on the keyboard and then testing your skills through reviews. Then you can move on to the advanced lessons, where you start stringing those letters together to make words. 

Every result you see on these typing lessons can be shared via a special URL so that you can show off your score.

If you register (which is free) you'll be able to keep track of your progress and set custom goals. You'll also get access to free typing tests and games. 

Dance Mat Typing: Lessons for Kids

Dance Mat Typing uses wacky animal characters and colorful games to make their free typing lessons fun for elementary-aged children.

You're taken through four levels, each with three different stages. This helps break the lessons into small manageable chunks so that learning to type isn't so overwhelming.

No registration or login is required, so you can get started quickly.

Sense-Lang.org: Enter Your Own Text

Sense-Lang.org has 16 free typing lessons along with a feature that allows you to use your own text to practice.

Each lesson features an animated keyboard, making it easy to get a visual on how you should be typing and what you need to do to make fewer mistakes. You'll also be able to view real-time typing stats for your WPM, time, and accuracy during the lessons.

Teachers can also access these lessons where they can create online classes, assign lessons, and get updates on the progress of their students. They're available in several different languages and for international keyboards as well.

GCFLearnFree: Perfect for Adults Learning to Type

GCFLearnFree has free typing lessons that are geared towards adults with no or little typing skills. For each lesson, you have the option of learning the keys or jumping right into practicing them.

It's a great program to start out on, but since they don't give you an update on how fast or accurate you're typing, we suggest moving on to another site after you get the basic skills down.

Touch Typing Study: Lessons for Non-English Keyboards

Touch Typing Study has 15 free typing lessons available in many different languages and keyboard layouts, plus some games and speed tests.

Each lesson is broken down into topics so you can easily see what's coming next or skip to another section if you feel confident in your skills.

While you're typing, you'll be able to view your errors, speed, and time spent on the lesson.

Big Brown Bear: Easy on the Eyes

Big Brown Bear has 14 free typing lessons that take you through the process of learning all the keys on the keyboard. Just pick which letter(s) to be reviewed on to get started

Something we like about this particular website is how the words come across the screen. Instead of seeing them as a paragraph like you normally would when reading, the words are on a single line and they pass through the center of the screen so that you don't have to move your eyes.

However, with these lessons, you must correct your mistakes before you can continue typing, which may or may not be something you want.

During each lesson, you're able to view your speed, accuracy, and time. You can also show a pair of animated hands or color in the keys you're supposed to be typing.