50+ Websites on Keyboarding

Here are a wide variety of resources that teach keyboarding–from games to drills to everything in between:

1. ABCYa–Keyboard challenge—grade level
2. Alphabet rain game
3. Alpha Quick–how quickly can a student type the alphabet?
4. Barracuda game
5. Big Brown Bear
6. Bubbles game
7. Digipuzzles–6 keyboarding practice games for youngers
8. Edutyping–fee-based
9. Free typing tutor
10. GoodTyping.com
11. KAZ–speed typing in 90 minutes
12. Keyboard practice—quick start
13. Keyboarding—more lessons
14. NitroType
15. TIPP 10
16. Touch Typing Progressive Program
17. Typaphone–make music while you type
18. TypeDojo — word lists, 10-key, and more
19. Typesy
20. Typing Arena–lots of games to teach typing
21. Typing Mentor
22. Typing Pal
23. Typing Tournament
24. Typing.IO–typing code for practice

Graduated programs

For iPads

1. Ghost Type
2. Tap Fun Lite
3. Tap Typing
4. Typing Tournament–with teacher dashboard; includes games; fee
5. Typetastic–also for computers

By row

Software

1. Typesy

For Special Needs

Typing test

Lesson Plans

1. 4 lesson plans–bundled
2. Homeschool Keyboarding Kit
3. K-5 Curriculum
4. K-8 Curriculum
5. Keyboarding and the Scientific Method
6. Middle School Curriculum

Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.