Community reviews for Typing.com

Overall, my favorite part of this website is the user interface as it is very beginner-friendly. As someone who already knows how to type, I think that it can still be useful to get better, and for someone who does not know how it, it can help them learn. One critique I would have is to have more assessments throughout the course, as it can help students learn better.

This is a great tool. However, I do think the videos are a little long and unnecessary. I lost interest myself, so I'm sure my students also would.

I think that this website is a useful teaching tool in preparing students for higher education settings and getting familiar with the layout of a keyboard. I like how straightforward this website is as it limits the distractions for students and makes it to focus on the task. I also like that the website offers various games for the students to interact with. These games can also help students strengthen their spelling skills.

It offers various different activities within the website to cater to all different types of typing levels. From basic education to general competitive games, typing is made fun an interactive. The only minor downside would be the ads that are distributed throughout the screen; however, it doesn't cause much of an obstruction and can be easily ignored. Thorough enjoyed the timed and page tests to see where my typing skills are at currently.

Useful website for keyboard practice for anyone who is starting out typing or those who want to improve their typing skills. Entertaining games for students to reinforce their typing skills.

It is a decent app, even though most of the grammar is very incorrect and I recommend anything else than this website

As I stated above, I completely recommend this product but it does come with a small glitch that most programs also have - ads. All of the ads are tiny and not very distracting at all (our kids were not bothered) but we did have an issue that if the student had used their school domain address to visit inappropriate sites that information search would generate inappropriate ads on their Typing.com platform. This isn't necessarily a product issue, but it is a danger to be aware of on any product that has ads in it. Would be great if apps could go ad free but that only exists if a fee is charged for the product. I would MUCH rather see the tool remain free to users than any kind of subscription program.

Avoid this one if you are concerned about appropriate content, and it also has non-standard American English spellings as well.

I really like this product and I think it is a great teaching tool. I like that I can track each students progress.

The setup is simple and easy. BEST point: NO EMAIL ACCOUNT is required. Importing enrollment list from a spreadsheet can be done by class, grade or as one unit. PW are assigned but can be changed very easily. We have a very strict policy regarding usernames on accounts so could only use first names. I named every child with their first name and the school initials, all one word, no caps or spaces. Duplicates were distinguished by use of classroom number. (Children are assigned a number order that reflects the class alpha order. We use THAT number in their username and have, so far not had a lot of duplication. I think one, last year in the entire enrollment. One issue that I see is that they can, at any time access the arcade, and I cannot always see, whether they were awarded that game time for achievement or they (self assigned and) got into the arcade instead of the lessons, on their own. Luckily, most of my students will tell the truth if I ask and I can confirm when they say they spent 7 minutes on an exercise, by checking a report for time on task. On the days when the network was down we were able to continue practice using the old, previously installed hard drive keyboarding program, but they did prefer the more modern typing.com.