TypingDesk – Typing Tutor, Drills & Games
Learn to type, then get fast. TypingDesk teaches, drills, and gamifies keyboard typing on Windows — tiered lessons with a colour-coded finger-placement guide, four practice modes, five typing games, and per-profile stats and achievements. Multiple keyboard layouts and interface languages, light and dark themes, and a whole family can share one PC. Runs fully offline — no account, no internet.
Download Version 1.0.0
Available on the Microsoft Store — no subscription, no ads.
Or view the listing at apps.microsoft.com.
From the home row to real speed
Start with a finger-placement guide that shows which finger presses each key, then work up through Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced and Code lessons — or paste your own text. As you type, correct keys turn green, mistakes red, and the on-screen keyboard highlights the next key. Track your progress with a WPM trend graph and an error heatmap, keep a daily streak, and unlock achievement badges.
Changelog — what's new in each release
Full release history from the first 1.0.0 — the typing engine, lessons, games, profiles, stats, achievements, and localisation.
View the full changelogUser Guide — every screen explained
A plain-English walkthrough of profiles, the sidebar, lessons and practice modes, the games, stats, and settings — plus touch-typing tips and where your data lives.
Read the User GuideFeatures
⌨️ Smart Typing Engine
A Unicode/grapheme-aware engine (accent-ready, no IME) with live WPM and accuracy, character-by-character highlighting, a smooth sliding & blinking caret, and backspace correction.
📚 Tiered, Layout-Aware Lessons
Beginner (home row → all letters) → a capitals & punctuation bridge → Intermediate → Advanced → Code → Custom (paste your own). Code lessons filter by language, with star ratings, best-WPM tracking and tier unlocks.
🖐️ Finger-Placement Guide
A colour-coded, layout-aware keyboard that shows which finger presses each key, the home row, and the F/J bumps — the perfect on-ramp for new typists.
🎯 Four Practice Modes
Timed, Quota, Zen (no pressure), and Repeat-until-perfect, which loops the passage until you hit the accuracy target.
🎮 Five Typing Games
Letter Rain, Word Blaster, Survival, Speed Sprint (race a ghost of your best run), and Typing Duel (race a CPU at Easy/Medium/Hard) — with high scores and a pause menu.
📊 Stats & Achievements
A WPM trend line graph, a layout-aware key-error heatmap, a day streak, a personal-bests board, and nine achievement badges for speed, accuracy, streaks and milestones.
👥 Local Profiles (Password-Less)
Multiple local profiles, each with isolated stats, progress, achievements and settings — an illustrated start screen lets a whole family share one PC. No account, no password.
🌍 Layouts, Languages & Themes
UI in English, French, German and Spanish; keyboard layouts QWERTY (US/UK), AZERTY, QWERTZ and Dvorak; light & dark themes; and synthesised keystroke/error sounds with volume control.
Latest Release
Version 1.0.0 — June 2026
First feature-complete build — the typing engine, tiered lessons with a finger-placement guide, four practice modes, five games, local profiles, stats and achievements, and four-language localisation.