Test your speed. Drill your weak keys.

TypeVelo is two things stitched together, not one: a genuinely fast, honest typing test, and a real structured path for learning to touch type from scratch or fixing specific weak points in typing you already know. Most typing sites pick one of those two jobs and do it half-heartedly — a test site with no path forward once you have your number, or a lesson site whose benchmark test feels like an afterthought bolted on at the end. This site treats both as first-class: the 1-Minute Typing Test is the same industry-standard benchmark used across the typing-test world, and the Practice Path is a genuine, sequenced curriculum — thirty lessons, in a specific order, each building on the last — not a random grab bag of drills.

If you already know roughly where you stand, the tests are built to answer that question honestly: a 15-second reflex check for a quick warm-up, the 1-minute benchmark most job listings and resumes assume, and longer 3-minute, 5-minute, and 10-minute tests for genuine stamina and pacing measurement rather than a lucky short burst. WPM and accuracy use the standard 5-characters-per-word convention with a net-WPM error penalty — the exact formula, and why different sites report different numbers for identical typing, is documented on the Methodology page rather than left as a black box.

If you're starting from zero, or you type reasonably well but never learned properly, the Practice Path starts at home-row finger placement and works forward through every row, then numbers, then symbols, then a dedicated speed-and-accuracy stage — the same home-row-first method every serious touch-typing course is built on, laid out here as 30 sequential lessons with review checkpoints along the way. Once you know the keyboard, the Drills Hub offers 15 standalone, repeatable drills for specific weak points — a particular finger, a letter pair, a punctuation mark — that you return to as needed rather than working through once and setting aside. And if straight drilling ever feels like a chore, the 3 games in the Games Hub turn the same underlying practice into something closer to play.

There's no sign-up wall anywhere on this site, and that's a deliberate choice, not a missing feature. Every test, lesson, drill, and game runs entirely in your browser, and your results — your WPM history, your lesson progress, your personal bests — are saved with your browser's own localStorage, on your own device. Nothing gets sent to or stored on our servers, which means there's no account to create, no password to lose, and no typing data sitting on a server anywhere that could later be breached, sold, or repurposed. The tradeoff is honest too: since nothing is stored remotely, clearing your browser data or switching devices means starting your progress history fresh — a real limitation of the local-only approach, not a hidden catch. Full detail on exactly what is and isn't collected lives on the Privacy Policy.