Loading page
A free course that starts on the home row and builds up, with keyboard layouts for whichever language you actually type in.
Opens in a new tab. We do not control this site and it may have changed since we catalogued it.
The Typing Cat sits in Typing Tests under Play, filed as coffee break.
About this category: Typing tests that got beautiful somewhere around 2020. Genuinely the fastest way to improve a skill you use every day and have never practised.
Yes. The Typing Cat is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use The Typing Cat without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file The Typing Cat as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
Practise typing by working through actual novels, so the warm-up leaves you a few pages of Dostoevsky instead of nonsense.
Races you against real people typing the same passage, which is the only known method of making a typing test tense.
A complete free typing course with lessons, tests and games, the sort of thing schools pay for and this one does not charge.
Typing practice on real open-source code, complete with the brackets and semicolons that ruin everyone's average.
Nearly a trillion saved web pages. Paste any address, pick a year, and see what was there — the single most important archive online.
One family documenting Chinese home cooking across two generations, with real detail on ingredients and what you can substitute.
A huge, searchable index of AI tools sorted by the task they do, from writing cover letters to cleaning up audio. Useful and a little dizzying.
Live positions and finder charts for planets, comets and asteroids, updated continuously and free of clutter.
Have a site of your own? Suggest it for Detour or browse the AltFTool backlinks hub.