Secondary schools · English a Chymraeg
The first five minutes of every lesson.
Pupils sit down, type for five minutes and log off. Your class sheet has updated before the starter is over.
Join TypingCoach as a founding school and get full access free for the 2026/27 academic year, in exchange for your feedback. How the founding pilot works
No account needed to try · 32 pupils per room
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Practise a little, every day, and your hands stop looking for the keys.
Mae'r llwybr yn troi wrth y bont ac yn dringo'r rhiw. Ymarfer ychydig bob dydd, ac mae'r bysedd yn cofio ble mae'r llythrennau.
Click the passage and start typing. Backspace fixes mistakes. Escape lets go.
Nothing was saved.
- Words per minute
- 0
- Accuracy
- 100%
- Errors
- 0
- Elapsed
- 0:00
The starter
Five minutes, timed to the bell.
A lesson starter has a shape, so the page has the same shape. Every drill runs the same four stages, so pupils know what happens next without being told.
-
0:00
Hands on home row
Eight keys, no timer, no score. Fingers find F and J by feel.
-
1:00
Two new keys
The lesson introduces a pair and drills them inside real words.
-
2:30
Mixed drill
Everything learned so far, shuffled. Errors repeat until they stop.
-
4:00
Timed run
Sixty seconds on the clock. The score writes itself to your class sheet.
Cymraeg
Welsh is not a translation layer.
A Welsh digraph is one letter and two keystrokes. TypingCoach drills them as single units, scores them as single letters, and gives the to bach its own lessons. Every drill exists in both languages, not just the buttons.
For teachers
Watch the room, not the screen.
Pupils join with a class code, so there is nothing to set up and no email addresses to collect. Scores land as they finish. You mark nothing.
Join TypingCoach as a founding school and get full access free for the 2026/27 academic year, in exchange for your feedback. How the founding pilot works
| Pupil | Lesson | WPM | Accuracy | This half term |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ffion Davies | L12 Top row | 52 | 98% | |
| Rhys Morgan | L12 Top row | 44 | 95% | |
| Megan Hughes | L11 Home row | 39 | 99% | |
| Iwan Pritchard | L12 Top row | 31 | 88% | |
| Cerys Bevan | L13 Digraphs | 47 | 96% | |
| Osian Lloyd | Not started | – | – |
Setting up
Your registers, not a spreadsheet.
Three ways to get a class into TypingCoach. Pick the one that matches how much of a hurry you are in.
-
From your MIS
Import from Bromcom
TypingCoach reads the classes your MIS says you teach this year. Check the register, press Provision, and the accounts are made. Press it again next half term and it tops the class up.
-
From a file
Upload a CSV
Name, email, password. Pupils already on the system are added to the class and their password is left alone.
-
No setup
Hand out a join code
Six characters on the board. Nothing to prepare, no email addresses to collect, works in the lesson you thought of it.
MIS import is set up once per school by whoever looks after your systems, and only ever shows a teacher their own classes.
What it is
What is TypingCoach?
TypingCoach is a web application that teaches touch typing. It provides a structured curriculum of typing lessons, free practice texts, timed typing tests and a separate set of mouse skills drills, available in both English and Welsh, and tracks your speed and accuracy as you improve. Teachers create classes, bring in their registers from the school's MIS or a CSV file, and follow the progress of every pupil from a single dashboard.
You can create a TypingCoach account directly, or sign in with your Google or Microsoft account. When you sign in this way, we use only your name and email address to create your account and save your typing progress. Nothing else is accessed, and you can read exactly how we handle your data in our Privacy Policy.
Give it five minutes.
Open a passage, type one line, and see where your hands actually are.
S T A R T