Typing in English — Practice worldwide with 15 progressive texts

United States

The keyboard revolution

In 1954, a Milwaukee newspaper ran a small item that almost nobod...

United Kingdom

Touch typing mastery

In the autumn of 1958, a young clerk at a shipping firm in Liverp...

Australia

Speed and accuracy

A schoolteacher in rural Queensland, teaching in a small country ...

Canada

The digital workplace

In the mid-1990s, a small company based in Waterloo, Ontario, a m...

Ireland

Muscle memory and the brain

James Joyce, quite arguably Ireland's single most celebrated nove...

New Zealand

The QWERTY layout

For the better part of a century now, a small government-run scho...

South Africa

Typing for programmers

Back in 1984, a determined twelve-year-old boy living in Pretoria...

Singapore

The benefits of daily practice

Back in 1965, Singapore became an independent nation almost entir...

India

Ergonomics and posture

Back in 2011, news outlets scattered right around the world ran a...

Japan

Speed records and champions

Back in 1999, a Japanese arcade and home video game studio releas...

Germany

Learning as an adult

Back in the early 1880s, the notable German philosopher Friedrich...

France

The evolution of input devices

Back in 1982, nearly a full decade before the World Wide Web exis...

Brazil

Typing in the academic world

Every single year, more than three million Brazilian students sit...

South Korea

The psychology of flow

Back in 1949, a South Korean ophthalmologist named Gong Byeong-u,...

Mexico

Building a daily routine

Centuries before any typewriter ever existed anywhere on earth, t...