# TypingKit

> Free typing practice on passages worth typing: classics, short everyday scenes, speeches, philosophy and poems.
> Every keystroke is timed; your best run races you as a ghost, recent attempts can be replayed, and after each run
> TypingKit shows the moves between keys that slow you down and builds a drill of real sentences around them.

## Tools

- [Typing test](https://typingkit.com/test/): common words, 15 seconds to 5 minutes, the length remembered; speed, accuracy and the slowest moves between keys.
- [Typing practice](https://typingkit.com/typing-practice/): short drills (15 seconds to 5 minutes) of real sentences, simple text or the pairs alone, built around your slowest moves.
- [TypingKit for Mac](https://typingkit.com/mac/): the books in a Mac app with a native typing area (a letter drawn about 2 ms after the key, against 30 to 50 ms in a browser), the same account as the site, also with the library, the typing test and imported EPUBs; free on the Mac App Store (https://apps.apple.com/app/typingkit-typing-practice/id6823268623), macOS 14.6 or later.
- [Books](https://typingkit.com/books/): whole public-domain novels typed chapter by chapter; the place is kept to the letter, the clock runs only while you type, and Simple text drops capitals and punctuation.

## Books

- [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland](https://typingkit.com/books/alice/): Lewis Carroll, 1865; 12 chapters
- [A Christmas Carol](https://typingkit.com/books/christmas-carol/): Charles Dickens, 1843; 5 staves
- [The Great Gatsby](https://typingkit.com/books/gatsby/): F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925; 9 chapters
- [Pride and Prejudice](https://typingkit.com/books/pride-and-prejudice/): Jane Austen, 1813; 61 chapters
- [A Tale of Two Cities](https://typingkit.com/books/tale-of-two-cities/): Charles Dickens, 1859; 45 chapters
- [The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes](https://typingkit.com/books/sherlock-holmes/): Arthur Conan Doyle, 1892; 12 chapters
- [Frankenstein](https://typingkit.com/books/frankenstein/): Mary Shelley, 1818; 28 chapters
- [The Wonderful Wizard of Oz](https://typingkit.com/books/wizard-of-oz/): L. Frank Baum, 1900; 24 chapters
- [The Call of the Wild](https://typingkit.com/books/call-of-the-wild/): Jack London, 1903; 7 chapters
- [The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde](https://typingkit.com/books/jekyll-and-hyde/): Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886; 10 chapters
- [The Time Machine](https://typingkit.com/books/time-machine/): H. G. Wells, 1895; 16 chapters
- [Moby-Dick](https://typingkit.com/books/moby-dick/): Herman Melville, 1851; 136 chapters
- [The Importance of Being Earnest](https://typingkit.com/books/importance-of-being-earnest/): Oscar Wilde, 1895; 3 acts
- [The Happy Prince and Other Tales](https://typingkit.com/books/happy-prince/): Oscar Wilde, 1888; 5 tales
- [The Prophet](https://typingkit.com/books/the-prophet/): Kahlil Gibran, 1923; 28 chapters
- [The Legend of Sleepy Hollow](https://typingkit.com/books/sleepy-hollow/): Washington Irving, 1820; 5 parts
- [The Yellow Wallpaper](https://typingkit.com/books/yellow-wallpaper/): Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1892; 3 parts

## From the classics

- [A Tale of Two Cities](https://typingkit.com/type/tale-of-two-cities/): Charles Dickens, 1859
- [Pride and Prejudice](https://typingkit.com/type/pride-and-prejudice/): Jane Austen, 1813
- [Moby-Dick](https://typingkit.com/type/moby-dick/): Herman Melville, 1851
- [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland](https://typingkit.com/type/alice/): Lewis Carroll, 1865
- [A Christmas Carol](https://typingkit.com/type/christmas-carol/): Charles Dickens, 1843
- [The Great Gatsby](https://typingkit.com/type/gatsby/): F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
- [A Scandal in Bohemia](https://typingkit.com/type/sherlock/): Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891
- [The Great Gatsby: the last page](https://typingkit.com/type/gatsby-ending/): F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925

## Everyday moments

- [Flowers in a jar](https://typingkit.com/type/everyday-flowers-in-a-jar/): Written for TypingKit
- [Morning light](https://typingkit.com/type/everyday-morning-light/): Written for TypingKit
- [From the garden](https://typingkit.com/type/everyday-from-the-garden/): Written for TypingKit
- [The sunny chair](https://typingkit.com/type/everyday-the-sunny-chair/): Written for TypingKit
- [One more chapter](https://typingkit.com/type/everyday-one-more-chapter/): Written for TypingKit
- [The last square](https://typingkit.com/type/everyday-the-last-square/): Written for TypingKit
- [Between stations](https://typingkit.com/type/everyday-between-stations/): Written for TypingKit
- [A rainy afternoon](https://typingkit.com/type/everyday-a-rainy-afternoon/): Written for TypingKit
- [A box of photos](https://typingkit.com/type/everyday-a-box-of-photos/): Written for TypingKit
- [Back to the library](https://typingkit.com/type/everyday-back-to-the-library/): Written for TypingKit
- [Porch lights](https://typingkit.com/type/everyday-porch-lights/): Written for TypingKit
- [A blue scarf](https://typingkit.com/type/everyday-a-blue-scarf/): Written for TypingKit

## Speeches and documents

- [The Declaration of Independence](https://typingkit.com/type/declaration/): Thomas Jefferson and the Continental Congress, 1776
- [The Gettysburg Address](https://typingkit.com/type/gettysburg/): Abraham Lincoln, 1863 (the Bliss copy)

## Philosophy & essays

- [Meditations, Book II, 1](https://typingkit.com/type/meditations-2-1/): Marcus Aurelius, tr. Meric Casaubon, 1634
- [Meditations, Book II, 2](https://typingkit.com/type/meditations-2-2/): Marcus Aurelius, tr. Meric Casaubon, 1634
- [The Enchiridion, 1](https://typingkit.com/type/enchiridion-1/): Epictetus, tr. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1865
- [Walden: Where I Lived](https://typingkit.com/type/walden/): Henry David Thoreau, 1854
- [Self-Reliance](https://typingkit.com/type/self-reliance/): Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841

## Poems

- [Sonnet 18](https://typingkit.com/type/sonnet-18/): William Shakespeare, 1609
- [The Road Not Taken](https://typingkit.com/type/road-not-taken/): Robert Frost, 1916
- ["Hope" is the thing with feathers](https://typingkit.com/type/hope/): Emily Dickinson, 1891