About Type Fast
Type Fast is a free adaptive typing trainer. It measures how fast you type each individual key — and each transition between keys — then builds every lesson around the ones actually holding you back. There is no account, no advertising, and nothing is stored on a server: your progress lives in your own browser and never leaves it.
[ START → ]What problem it solves
Most typing practice is undifferentiated. You retype passages, your overall speed creeps up, and nobody tells you why you are slow. But lost speed is rarely spread evenly — it concentrates in a handful of keys your fingers still hesitate on, and a handful of awkward transitions between keys.
Type Fast is built around measuring those specifically, and spending your practice time there instead of on the letters you already type well.
How it differs from other typing trainers
A mastery bar that moves
Each key is judged against your own median speed rather than a fixed threshold, so "mastered" means "fast for you now". The bar moves down for a genuine beginner as well as up, so a slow learner is never locked out of progressing.
Transitions, not just keys
The gap between two keystrokes is the cost of the transition, not of the key. Measuring it as a pair means the trainer can say "your T-to-R roll costs you" instead of the far less useful "your R is slow".
What you actually mistype
When you get a key wrong, it records which key you hit instead. An adjacent-key slip is a placement problem; holding Shift by mistake is a different one. They need different fixes.
A curriculum past the alphabet
Seventy keys are taught one at a time on the same gate: letters, then capitals, then punctuation, then digits. Most adaptive trainers stop at the 26 letters and then hand you a checkbox that enables punctuation all at once.
For the full mechanics — confidence scoring, focus-key selection, unlocking rules — see how Type Fast works.
Principles
- Free, with no account. There is no sign-up, no email capture, and no paid tier. You can start typing within a second of the page loading.
- Private by construction. Your typing data — per-key timings, mistakes, session history — is written to your browser's localStorage and nowhere else. There is no server to store it on.
- No advertising. Nothing on the page is competing with the thing you came to do.
- Honest numbers. Published typing averages are loosely sourced and vary by study. Where this site quotes ranges, it says they are approximate rather than dressing them up as measured research.
- Fast and offline-capable. Static pages, no framework, and a service worker so practice keeps working without a connection.
- Readable by people and by models. A machine summary of what the trainer is and is not lives at /llms.txt.
Privacy, in one paragraph
Type Fast does not require an account and does not transmit your typing data anywhere. Everything you type, and every statistic derived from it, stays in your browser's local storage. Clearing your browser data clears your progress — there is no copy elsewhere to restore it from. The site uses privacy-preserving aggregate page analytics to count visits; it does not record what you type.
Frequently asked questions
Is Type Fast really free?
Yes. Every feature — adaptive lessons, timed tests, games, analytics — is free, with no account and no paid tier.
Do I need to create an account?
No. There is no sign-up at all. Your progress is saved in your browser automatically, so returning to the site on the same browser picks up where you left off.
Where is my typing data stored?
In your browser's localStorage, on your own device. It is never uploaded, and there is no server-side copy. That also means it does not follow you between devices.
Does it work offline?
Yes. A service worker caches the app, so once you have loaded it, practice continues to work without a connection.
How is it different from Keybr or Monkeytype?
Keybr pioneered the adaptive weak-key approach, and Type Fast openly builds on it — while extending the curriculum past the alphabet to capitals, punctuation and digits, adding transition-level timing, and tracking what you actually mistype. Monkeytype is an excellent speed test, but it measures you rather than teaching you. Nitro Type and TypeRacer are races; Typing.com is a school product. See the comparisons: Keybr, Monkeytype, Nitro Type, TypeRacer, Typing.com, 10FastFingers.