Lessons

Three hundred progressive lessons across home-row foundations, micro-drills, programming, long-form prose, poetry, famous speeches, and specialized formats. Each foundation lesson restricts the surface to a focused key cluster; later lessons use literal text.

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Stage 1 — Home row

Lesson 1 Home row anchors fj Lesson 2 Home row inner fjdk Lesson 3 Home row full fjdkslar; Lesson 4 Add e and i fjdksla;ei Lesson 5 Add t and n fjdksla;ei Lesson 6 Add o and h fjdksla;ei Lesson 7 Add r and u fjdksla;ei

Stage 2 — Top + bottom rows

Lesson 8 Top-row left qwertasdfg Lesson 9 Top-row right yuiopjklhn

Stage 3 — Single-key drills

TypingClub-style micro-drills, one key at a time, both hands.

Lesson 10 F key drill key Lesson 11 J key drill key Lesson 12 F + J alternation key Lesson 13 D key drill key Lesson 14 K key drill key Lesson 15 D + K alternation key Lesson 16 S key drill key Lesson 17 L key drill key Lesson 18 S + L alternation key Lesson 19 A key drill key Lesson 20 Semicolon drill key

Stage 4 — Letter introduction A–Z

Each of the 26 letters introduced one at a time with a focused drill, common words, and a sample sentence.

Stage 5 — Number key intro 0–9

Each digit introduced individually, in isolation, then with phrases.

Lesson 47 Number 1 digit Lesson 48 Number 2 digit Lesson 49 Number 3 digit Lesson 50 Number 4 digit Lesson 51 Number 5 digit Lesson 52 Number 6 digit Lesson 53 Number 7 digit Lesson 54 Number 8 digit Lesson 55 Number 9 digit Lesson 56 Number 0 digit

Stage 6 — Reach drills

Finger-isolation reaches per column. Build the reach map before building speed.

Lesson 57 Left index reach: f r v g t b reach Lesson 58 Right index reach: j u m h y n reach Lesson 59 Left middle reach: d e c reach Lesson 60 Right middle reach: k i comma reach Lesson 61 Left ring reach: s w x reach Lesson 62 Right ring reach: l o period reach Lesson 63 Left pinky reach: a q z reach Lesson 64 Right pinky reach: ; p slash reach Lesson 65 Index column workout reach Lesson 66 Middle column workout reach Lesson 67 Pinky column workout reach

Stage 7 — Confusable letters

b/d, p/q, u/n, m/n, i/l, o/0, 1/l/I -- disambiguation drills.

Lesson 68 b vs d confusable Lesson 69 p vs q confusable Lesson 70 u vs n confusable Lesson 71 m vs n confusable Lesson 72 i vs l confusable Lesson 73 o vs 0 confusable Lesson 74 1 vs l vs I confusable

Stage 8 — Bigrams + trigrams

The most common letter-pair patterns in English: th, he, in, er, an, nd, ed, on, st, tion, ing.

Stage 9 — Common words

The top-100 most-frequent English words plus function-word sentences.

Lesson 111 Top-25 English words frequency Lesson 112 Words 26-50 frequency Lesson 113 Words 51-100 frequency Lesson 114 Word ladders: short to long frequency Lesson 115 Function-word sentences frequency

Stage 10 — Top-1000 word frequency

The top 250 English words broken into tiers, plus verbs, nouns, adjectives, and category vocabularies.

Stage 11 — Common phrases

Greetings, farewells, restaurant, travel, weather, directions, work, shopping, agreement, sympathy, email, meetings, negotiation, customer service.

Stage 12 — Speed builders

Mixed-length sprints, pangrams, and review runs.

Lesson 156 Adaptive review speed Lesson 157 Speed builder: short words speed Lesson 158 Speed builder: long words speed Lesson 159 Mixed punctuation speed Lesson 160 Mixed numbers + letters speed Lesson 161 2-letter words sprint speed Lesson 162 3-letter words sprint speed Lesson 163 4-letter words sprint speed Lesson 164 5-letter words sprint speed Lesson 165 Long words sprint speed Lesson 166 Pangram drill speed

Stage 13 — Capitalization & shift

Sentence starts, title case, acronyms, proper nouns, hyphenated words.

Lesson 167 Sentence starts: capital + period caps Lesson 168 Title case caps Lesson 169 All-caps acronyms caps Lesson 170 Proper nouns caps Lesson 171 Mixed-case sentences caps Lesson 172 Names with apostrophes caps Lesson 173 Hyphenated names + words caps Lesson 174 Caps speed run caps

Stage 14 — Punctuation in context

Commas, periods, quotes, semicolons, dashes, parens, apostrophes, hyphens.

Lesson 175 Numbers row 1234567890 Lesson 176 Punctuation: comma + period ,. Lesson 177 Punctuation: apostrophe + dash '- Lesson 178 Symbols: question + exclamation ?! Lesson 179 Symbols: quotes + colon ":; Lesson 180 Capital letters ABCDEFGHIJ Lesson 181 Comma rhythm punct Lesson 182 Period ending sentences punct Lesson 183 Quotation marks punct Lesson 184 Semicolon + colon punct Lesson 185 Em-dashes + parentheses punct Lesson 186 Apostrophes: contractions punct Lesson 187 Apostrophes: possessives punct Lesson 188 Hyphens + ranges punct

Stage 15 — Punctuation edge cases

Quote-within-quote, nested parens, em-dash vs en-dash, ellipsis, hyphenated compounds, dialogue tags, slash usage, editorial brackets.

Lesson 189 Quote within quote punct Lesson 190 Nested parentheses punct Lesson 191 Em-dash vs en-dash punct Lesson 192 Ellipsis usage punct Lesson 193 Hyphenated compound modifiers punct Lesson 194 Dialogue tags punct Lesson 195 Question + exclamation mix punct Lesson 196 Comma splices fixed punct Lesson 197 Oxford comma + lists punct Lesson 198 Block quotation punct Lesson 199 Mixed terminal punctuation punct Lesson 200 Slash usage (and/or, dates, fractions) punct Lesson 201 Brackets for editorial insertion punct Lesson 202 Symbols in prose punct

Stage 16 — Numbers & symbols

Digit row, decimals, currency, brackets, math, units, dates, and the symbol gauntlet.

Lesson 203 Top-row digits 1234567890 Lesson 204 Round numbers symbols Lesson 205 Decimals symbols Lesson 206 Percentages symbols Lesson 207 Currency symbols Lesson 208 Bracket pairs symbols Lesson 209 Math operators symbols Lesson 210 Logic operators symbols Lesson 211 Phone numbers + IDs symbols Lesson 212 Dates + times symbols Lesson 213 Units + measurements symbols Lesson 214 Symbol gauntlet symbols

Stage 17 — Number patterns

Counting, primes, Fibonacci, powers of 2, π and e, phone numbers, ISBNs, dates.

Lesson 215 Counting 1-50 numbers Lesson 216 Even / odd / primes numbers Lesson 217 Fibonacci numbers Lesson 218 Powers of 2 numbers Lesson 219 Pi to 50 digits numbers Lesson 220 e to 50 digits numbers Lesson 221 Phone numbers (US) numbers Lesson 222 ISBNs + IDs numbers Lesson 223 Dates many formats numbers Lesson 224 Time + duration numbers

Stage 18 — Programming

Real code across 30+ languages and tools: JS, TS, Python, Rust, Go, Java, C, C++, Ruby, Swift, Kotlin, PHP, Lua, Elixir, Haskell, Scala, Clojure, OCaml, F#, Dart, Julia, R, Erlang, Solidity, Bash, SQL, Vim, regex, GraphQL, Vue, Angular, Svelte, Express, Django, Rails, Phoenix, Terraform, Ansible, Helm, MongoDB, Redis.

Lesson 225 JavaScript: declarations code Lesson 226 JavaScript: arrow functions code Lesson 227 JavaScript: control flow code Lesson 228 Python: list comprehensions code Lesson 229 Python: def + decorators code Lesson 230 Python: imports + main code Lesson 231 HTML: structural tags code Lesson 232 CSS: selectors + properties code Lesson 233 SQL queries code Lesson 234 Bash one-liners code Lesson 235 Regex patterns code Lesson 236 Markdown + YAML code Lesson 237 TypeScript: types + interfaces code Lesson 238 TypeScript: generics + utility types code Lesson 239 Rust: ownership + borrowing code Lesson 240 Rust: structs + impl code Lesson 241 Go: interfaces + goroutines code Lesson 242 Java: classes + lambdas code Lesson 243 C: pointers + arrays code Lesson 244 C++: templates + STL code Lesson 245 Ruby: blocks + classes code Lesson 246 Swift: optionals + closures code Lesson 247 Kotlin: data classes + null safety code Lesson 248 PHP: arrays + functions code Lesson 249 Lua: tables + iteration code Lesson 250 Elixir: pattern matching code Lesson 251 Haskell: types + functions code Lesson 252 Git commands code Lesson 253 Docker + Kubernetes code Lesson 254 JSON shapes code Lesson 255 Tailwind class strings code Lesson 256 React: components + hooks code Lesson 257 Bash: scripting basics code Lesson 258 Python: comprehensions advanced code Lesson 259 Python: async/await code Lesson 260 JavaScript: async/await code Lesson 261 JavaScript: array methods code Lesson 262 SQL: joins + group by code Lesson 263 SQL: window functions code Lesson 264 Vim commands code Lesson 265 Regex character classes code Lesson 266 GraphQL query code Lesson 267 YAML config code Lesson 268 TOML + INI code Lesson 269 Makefile code Lesson 270 PowerShell pipeline code Lesson 271 Network commands code Lesson 272 CSS Grid + Flexbox code Lesson 273 TypeScript: discriminated unions code Lesson 274 Scala: case classes + pattern match code Lesson 275 Clojure: functions + maps code Lesson 276 OCaml: ADTs + recursion code Lesson 277 F#: pipelines + records code Lesson 278 Dart: classes + null safety code Lesson 279 Julia: arrays + functions code Lesson 280 R: data frames + ggplot code Lesson 281 Erlang: actors + receive code Lesson 282 Solidity: smart contract code Lesson 283 Vue 3 single-file component code Lesson 284 Angular component code Lesson 285 Svelte component code Lesson 286 Express middleware code Lesson 287 Django view + URL code Lesson 288 Rails controller code Lesson 289 Phoenix LiveView code Lesson 290 Terraform resource code Lesson 291 Ansible playbook code Lesson 292 Helm chart values code Lesson 293 sed + awk one-liners code Lesson 294 jq pipeline code Lesson 295 tmux + screen commands code Lesson 296 ripgrep + fd + fzf code Lesson 297 MongoDB queries code Lesson 298 Redis commands code

Stage 19 — Long-form prose

Public-domain literary excerpts. Pass requires 95%+ accuracy: type carefully.

Lesson 299 Austen -- Pride and Prejudice prose Lesson 300 Twain -- Huckleberry Finn prose Lesson 301 Melville -- Moby-Dick prose Lesson 302 Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities prose Lesson 303 Shelley -- Frankenstein prose Lesson 304 Stoker -- Dracula prose Lesson 305 Wilde -- Dorian Gray prose Lesson 306 Carroll -- Alice's Adventures prose Lesson 307 Wells -- The Time Machine prose Lesson 308 Whitman -- Leaves of Grass prose Lesson 309 Thoreau -- Walden prose Lesson 310 Stevenson -- Treasure Island prose Lesson 311 Doyle -- Sherlock Holmes prose Lesson 312 Conrad -- Heart of Darkness prose Lesson 313 Poe -- The Raven prose Lesson 314 Frost -- The Road Not Taken prose Lesson 315 Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina prose Lesson 316 Dostoevsky -- Crime and Punishment prose Lesson 317 Hugo -- Les Misérables prose Lesson 318 Eliot -- Middlemarch prose Lesson 319 Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter prose Lesson 320 James -- Portrait of a Lady prose Lesson 321 Wharton -- Age of Innocence prose Lesson 322 Cather -- My Ántonia prose Lesson 323 Crane -- Red Badge of Courage prose Lesson 324 Conrad -- Lord Jim prose Lesson 325 Forster -- Howards End prose Lesson 326 Joyce -- Dubliners prose Lesson 327 Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers prose Lesson 328 Hemingway -- short paragraph prose Lesson 329 Wilde -- The Importance of Being Earnest prose Lesson 330 Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables prose Lesson 331 Stevenson -- Kidnapped prose Lesson 332 Dickens -- Oliver Twist prose Lesson 333 Austen -- Sense and Sensibility prose Lesson 334 Bronte -- Jane Eyre prose Lesson 335 Bronte -- Wuthering Heights prose Lesson 336 Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo prose Lesson 337 Verne -- 20,000 Leagues prose Lesson 338 Defoe -- Robinson Crusoe prose Lesson 339 Swift -- Gulliver's Travels prose Lesson 340 Stoker -- Dracula (later) prose Lesson 341 Verne -- Around the World in 80 Days prose Lesson 342 Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles prose Lesson 343 Eliot -- Silas Marner prose Lesson 344 Cather -- O Pioneers! prose Lesson 345 Wharton -- Ethan Frome prose Lesson 346 James -- Daisy Miller prose Lesson 347 London -- Call of the Wild prose Lesson 348 London -- White Fang prose Lesson 349 Sinclair -- The Jungle prose Lesson 350 Conrad -- The Secret Agent prose Lesson 351 Joyce -- Portrait of the Artist prose Lesson 352 Gaskell -- North and South prose Lesson 353 Trollope -- Barchester Towers prose Lesson 354 Hugo -- The Hunchback prose Lesson 355 Verne -- Mysterious Island prose Lesson 356 Stevenson -- Treasure Island chapter prose Lesson 357 Twain -- Connecticut Yankee prose Lesson 358 Wells -- The Invisible Man prose Lesson 359 Doyle -- A Study in Scarlet prose Lesson 360 James -- Turn of the Screw prose Lesson 361 Lovecraft -- Call of Cthulhu prose

Stage 20 — Poetry

Type famous poems line by line -- Shakespeare, Frost, Dickinson, Whitman, Yeats, Kipling, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Hopkins, Sandburg, Williams, Pound.

Lesson 362 Shakespeare -- Sonnet 18 poetry Lesson 363 Frost -- Stopping by Woods poetry Lesson 364 Dickinson -- Hope poetry Lesson 365 Whitman -- Song of Myself poetry Lesson 366 Kipling -- If— poetry Lesson 367 Shelley -- Ozymandias poetry Lesson 368 Keats -- Bright Star poetry Lesson 369 Yeats -- Innisfree poetry Lesson 370 Henley -- Invictus poetry Lesson 371 Frost -- Fire and Ice poetry Lesson 372 Wordsworth -- Daffodils poetry Lesson 373 Tennyson -- The Eagle poetry Lesson 374 Frost -- Birches poetry Lesson 375 Yeats -- The Second Coming poetry Lesson 376 Hopkins -- Pied Beauty poetry Lesson 377 Dickinson -- Because I could not stop for Death poetry Lesson 378 Whitman -- I Hear America Singing poetry Lesson 379 Sandburg -- Fog poetry Lesson 380 Williams -- The Red Wheelbarrow poetry Lesson 381 Pound -- In a Station of the Metro poetry

Stage 21 — Famous speeches

Public-domain oratory: Lincoln, FDR, JFK, Sojourner Truth, TR, Pericles, Frederick Douglass, Anthony, Stanton, Washington, Churchill, Reagan, Mandela, Havel.

Lesson 382 Lincoln -- Gettysburg Address (opening) speech Lesson 383 Lincoln -- Gettysburg Address (closing) speech Lesson 384 Patrick Henry -- Liberty or Death speech Lesson 385 FDR -- Day of Infamy speech Lesson 386 JFK -- Inaugural speech Lesson 387 Sojourner Truth -- Ain't I a Woman? speech Lesson 388 Roosevelt -- The Man in the Arena speech Lesson 389 Chief Joseph -- Surrender speech Lesson 390 Pericles -- Funeral Oration speech Lesson 391 Frederick Douglass -- Fourth of July speech Lesson 392 Lincoln -- Second Inaugural speech Lesson 393 Roosevelt -- Four Freedoms speech Lesson 394 Eisenhower -- Military-Industrial Complex speech Lesson 395 Kennedy -- Moon Speech speech Lesson 396 Anthony -- Women's Right to Vote speech Lesson 397 Stanton -- Declaration of Sentiments speech Lesson 398 Washington -- Farewell Address (excerpt) speech Lesson 399 Pankhurst -- Freedom or Death (excerpt) speech Lesson 400 Bryan -- Cross of Gold speech Lesson 401 Chief Seattle (attributed) speech Lesson 402 Booker T. Washington -- Atlanta Compromise speech Lesson 403 Lincoln -- House Divided speech Lesson 404 Frederick Douglass -- What is the Fourth speech Lesson 405 Theodore Roosevelt -- Strenuous Life speech Lesson 406 Churchill -- Finest Hour speech Lesson 407 Churchill -- Beaches speech Lesson 408 FDR -- First Inaugural speech Lesson 409 JFK -- Berlin Wall speech Lesson 410 Reagan -- Tear Down This Wall speech Lesson 411 Mandela -- Inaugural speech Lesson 412 Havel -- Power of the Powerless speech

Stage 22 — Historical documents

Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution Preamble, Bill of Rights, Magna Carta, Federalist Papers, Mayflower Compact, Emancipation Proclamation, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, U.N. Charter, Geneva Convention.

Lesson 413 Declaration of Independence (preamble) document Lesson 414 Declaration of Independence (closing) document Lesson 415 U.S. Constitution Preamble document Lesson 416 First Amendment document Lesson 417 Bill of Rights II–IV document Lesson 418 Magna Carta clause 39 document Lesson 419 Federalist No. 1 opening document Lesson 420 Federalist No. 10 (faction) document Lesson 421 Mayflower Compact document Lesson 422 Emancipation Proclamation excerpt document Lesson 423 Universal Declaration of Human Rights I document Lesson 424 Universal Declaration Article 19 document Lesson 425 Treaty of Westphalia (paraphrase) document Lesson 426 U.N. Charter Preamble document Lesson 427 Geneva Convention (Common Article 3) document

Stage 23 — Sentence rhythm

Narrative, description, dialogue, lists, compound sentences.

Lesson 428 Short narrative paragraph rhythm Lesson 429 Description rhythm rhythm Lesson 430 Dialogue rhythm rhythm Lesson 431 Lists in prose rhythm Lesson 432 Compound + complex sentences rhythm

Stage 24 — Foreign phrases

Common Spanish, French, German, Italian phrases plus the Greek alphabet.

Lesson 433 Common Spanish phrases foreign Lesson 434 Common French phrases foreign Lesson 435 Common German phrases foreign Lesson 436 Common Italian phrases foreign Lesson 437 Greek alphabet (transliterated) foreign

Stage 25 — Endurance runs

Longer single-passage runs to build sustained typing rhythm.

Lesson 438 Endurance: Austen opening endurance Lesson 439 Endurance: Twain opening endurance Lesson 440 Endurance: Dickens opening endurance Lesson 441 Endurance: Sagan Pale Blue Dot endurance Lesson 442 Endurance: tech writing endurance

Stage 26 — Professional copy

Resume bullets, cover letters, meeting notes, status reports, Slack updates.

Lesson 443 Resume bullet points professional Lesson 444 Cover letter rhythm professional Lesson 445 Meeting notes format professional Lesson 446 Slack-style updates professional Lesson 447 Status report paragraph professional

Stage 27 — Specialized formats

Legal boilerplate, medical Latin, scientific notation, finance, AP style, screenplay, chess, URLs, citations, music notation, API docs, OpenAPI, HTTP, stack traces, error logs, GitHub Actions, kubectl, AWS CLI, JSON Schema, diff format.

Stage 28 — Final mastery

Comprehensive review at high difficulty -- pangrams, mixed numbers + letters, code + prose hybrids, punctuation gauntlets, long-form endurance, technical writing, speech excerpts, speed runs.

Lesson 491 Mastery: full alphabet sentence mastery Lesson 492 Mastery: numbers + letters mixed mastery Lesson 493 Mastery: code + prose hybrid mastery Lesson 494 Mastery: punctuation gauntlet mastery Lesson 495 Mastery: long-form paragraph (Sagan) mastery Lesson 496 Mastery: long-form paragraph (Twain) mastery Lesson 497 Mastery: technical paragraph mastery Lesson 498 Mastery: speech excerpt (Lincoln) mastery Lesson 499 Mastery: speed final (mixed) mastery Lesson 500 Mastery: graduation passage mastery