Finger Trainer: Ways to practice

Three modes

Choose one under Round in the practice panel, which the button above the text opens.

• Line by line: one line at a time, with a summary after each. Esc skips to a new line.
• Timed: 30, 60 or 120 seconds of text that never runs out. Your speed counts only correct keys, and a wrong key doesn't count, so mashing scores nothing. The trainer keeps your best speed for each length. Esc restarts the timer.
• Perfect run: text that never runs out, until your first mistake ends the run. Your score is the number of keys in a row; the trainer keeps your longest run. Esc starts a new run.

What to practice

In the same panel:

• One stage: click it.
• Several stages: hold Cmd (Mac) or Ctrl (Windows) and click each one; click a picked stage again to take it out. Each picked stage gets an equal share of the text.
• All stages: click Mix all stages.
• Your weak keys: click Weak keys.
• Your own text: click Your text and paste anything: an email, a chapter, some code. You type it line by line, in its own order, with every finger hint; the card says which line you're on, and From line 1 starts it again. Curly quotes, long dashes and accented letters become what a US keyboard types, and anything it has no key for is left out. Your text stays in your browser: it is never sent anywhere.

And for one finger's keys, click that finger on the drawn hands below the keyboard. You get words packed with its keys: its letters, plus its numbers and symbols when your chosen stage includes them.

Only a single stage in Line by line passes a stage; combined stages, weak keys, finger drills and your own text are for extra practice.