TypeQuest: the free typing game that teaches kids to touch-type
Start here: Meet F and J · Start touch-typing on the home row. Keyboard needed. · About 3 minutes
TypeQuest teaches touch typing in 10 units and 49 short lessons. Kids start on the home row with F and J and build, lesson by lesson, to capitals, punctuation, numbers, symbols, and real sentences at a steady, growing speed. Parents like that it teaches proper finger placement from day one — and shows no ads. Best with a computer keyboard; phones and tablets can practise with the on-screen keyboard. Diffy measures product use to improve the service.
What kids learn
- Correct home-row finger placement, starting with the F and J anchor keys
- Which finger reaches every letter, number, and symbol key
- Proper Shift technique for capital letters and symbols
- Punctuation and symbols: periods, commas, quotes, and $ % & @ # + - = *
- Real typing speed and accuracy on the 100 most common English words
- A confidence boost with a bonus Code Cavern (brackets, camelCase, tiny programs)
How it works
Each lesson starts with a one-screen card that shows its new keys and which finger presses each one. Then kids type one line at a time while an on-screen keyboard highlights the next key and the right Shift to use. Correct keys light up green, mistakes flash red, and words-per-minute counts active typing time, so a break never costs a star. Finishing a lesson earns 1 to 3 stars, and boss lessons raise the speed and accuracy targets.
Kids can play without signing in; guest stars stay until you reload or close the page. A grown-up signs in once and adds a player for each kid, so TypeQuest's stars and progress save to your account and follow you to any device.
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Ready to play TypeQuest?
It's free and has no ads. Diffy measures product use to improve the service. Ages 6–12.