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No Look Typing — eyes up, fingers know the way
No Look Typing watches your own keystrokes, works out the one thing holding you back, and then teaches you that. Not a curriculum written before it met you.
The No Look test · two rounds, ninety seconds
Everyone measures your speed. Nobody measures whether you needed to look. Two short rounds — one normal, one without looking at your hands — and the gap between them is your No Look Score.
Round 1 of 2 — type however you normally do. Look at your hands as much as you like.
Now the same thing without looking at your hands. Cover them with a book if it helps — most people find they cannot, and that is exactly the thing worth knowing.
Click the paragraph and type. Backspace works. Nothing is uploaded and nothing is saved — the number is yours.
What makes it different
None of them looks at what you personally keep getting wrong and does something about it. That gap is the whole product.
It reads your keystrokes and says the actual thing: “When you mean F you press D — that's happened 7 times. Your hand has slid off home.”
Two hands drawn with the right finger lit up, then key → pair → word. A wrong key doesn't move you on: it tells you which finger you used and which one you wanted.
If you already type fast with two fingers, doing it properly will make you slower for a while. We say so up front and put your old speed on the chart as the line to beat.
Speed, accuracy, every key, every finger, day by day — and a report card showing whether the coach's advice actually worked.
Who it's for
Already fast, doing it wrong
30–45 words a minute with two fingers and your eyes down. You're not a beginner — you're retraining, and that needs a different plan.
Never really typed
Eight keys, then ten, then the whole board — with the finger named out loud and the keyboard on screen until you don't need it.
Fine, but stuck
Plateaued for months. The coach finds the slow letter pairs, the weak finger and the pauses, and drills those instead of everything.
The practice
There are no games here, and that is deliberate. We built three different game wrappers and deleted all of them, because the thing people kept coming back for was never the wrapper — it was being told what they were doing wrong. So: a line of text, the letter you are on, the finger you should use, and two hands showing you where it lives.
Alongside those: a one-minute test for your true speed, a spelling and reading practice that says the word out loud and uses it in a sentence, and an assessment that works out which characters — capitals, numbers, brackets, punctuation — are actually costing you time.
Eight levels, from asdfjkl; to numbers, punctuation and capitals. Four difficulties — on the hardest, the on-screen keyboard is gone entirely.
The boring, important bit
No Look Typing runs entirely in your browser. Your progress is saved on your own computer, not on a server — there is nothing to sign up for and nothing for us to lose. If you want your progress on a second computer, the app gives you a code to paste in. That's the whole system.
Built by Tim and Bennett Burke. Bennett is 13 and is learning to touch type on it, which is the only reason it exists.
Time is the whole argument
You type something like 2,000 characters on an ordinary day — messages, email, homework, forms. Drag your speed and watch what that is worth.
The whole idea, in one move
Could you? That gap — between what you can do watching your fingers and what you can do without — is most of what stands between you and typing properly. It is also a number, and this is the only place that measures it. We call it your No Look Score.
Being straight about what the number is: the test asks you to stop looking and takes you at your word, and inside the app it compares your speed with the on-screen keyboard against your speed without it. No software can see your hands. What it can see is every time you stopped for half a second in the middle of a word, which is what hunting for a key looks like from in here — and it counts those too.