About TypeVelo

TypeVelo was built by Praveen (Berlin, Germany) to fill the gap between dated, ad-heavy typing test sites and minimalist tools built only for people who are already fast — a clean, fast test you can trust plus a real structured practice path anyone can follow.

Most typing sites are one of two things. The first kind gives you a speed test, a score, and an invitation to take it again — useful for about ninety seconds, and no help at all with the question the score raises. The second kind is a course you pay for and log into. There was room in between for something that measures honestly and then tells you what to do about the result, without an account and without a paywall, and that is what this is.

What is here

Twenty-one tests across different lengths, content types and scoring rules; a sequential thirty-lesson path from four keys to a full paragraph; sixty repeatable drills grouped by what they train; eleven games, each with a different rule rather than a different skin; and a reference library of guides and essays covering technique, hardware, layouts and what the numbers actually mean.

Three commitments

Your typing stays yours. Results are saved in your own browser and never sent anywhere. There is no account to make, and nothing on this site knows who you are. The privacy policy says the same thing at greater length, and it is short.

Every page says what it does. Each drill prints, above its typing surface, the exact characters its practice text is guaranteed to contain — and that line is generated from the same fields a build-time check asserts against the real generated text, so a drill cannot claim to train something its passage does not include. That check exists because an earlier version of this site failed it: nine of the original fifteen drills were producing text that did not match their own description.

Nothing here is copied. Every word you type on this site is either public domain or written for it, and the methodology page lists the sources and sets out exactly how words per minute and accuracy are calculated, so you can check any result against the arithmetic.

How it pays for itself

Everything above is free and stays free. There is one paid thing — a personalised improvement plan built from your own per-key error data — and a donation page for anyone who would rather just help with the hosting. Neither unlocks a test, a lesson, a drill or a game, because a typing site that hides practice behind a payment has misunderstood what it is for.

If something is wrong — a result that looks implausible, a drill whose text does not do what its page says, a link that goes nowhere — say so. Corrections are the most useful thing anyone sends.

TypeVelo is part of a small family of focused sites, including AltPlusCtrl, for keyboard-shortcut productivity.