Online Typing Test and Real-Time Races

30-second sprint, 1 to 10 minute tests, multiplayer races, and a 40-lesson typing course.

30-second typing test

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drawn by architects, but the city is written by everyone who lives in it. Walk through an old European centre and you can read its history in the street layout without needing a single date. The narrow curving lanes near the river usually mark the oldest part, following paths worn by foot traffic before anyone thought about carriages. A ring of wider boulevards often shows where defensive walls once stood, demolished in the nineteenth century when they became useless and the land beneath them became valuable. Beyond that, grids of apartment blocks appear, built quickly during industrial expansion for workers arriving from the countryside. Further out again, the housing loosens into gardens and cul de sacs, which belongs to the age of the car. Each layer solved the problem of its own moment, and the city is the sum of all those solutions sitting on top of one another. Buildings themselves are shaped by constraints that are easy to overlook. Before steel and reinforced concrete, the height of a structure was limited by the weight the lower walls could bear, which is why the ground floors of old buildings have such thick masonry. Windows were small not because people disliked light but because glass was expensive and heat escaped through it. The invention of the safety elevator changed the value of a building's floors entirely. Before it, the upper storeys were the cheapest,
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What is TypeSprint?

TypeSprint is a free typing platform in the browser: race against others in real-time multiplayer typing tests, or learn touch typing from scratch with 40 guided lessons per keyboard layout (QWERTZ and QWERTY). Teachers can create classes and follow their students' progress on a live dashboard. Everything works in English and German, with no ads and no payments.

Frequently asked questions

Is TypeSprint free?

Yes. TypeSprint is completely free: every typing test, all 40 lessons per keyboard layout, the leaderboards, and the classroom features. There are no ads, no payments, and no premium tier.

Does TypeSprint support German and QWERTZ keyboards?

Yes. The whole platform is available in English and German, and the touch-typing course has a dedicated 40-lesson track for QWERTZ (including ö, ä and ü) as well as one for QWERTY.

Do I need an account to use TypeSprint?

You can race and take typing tests without an account - just pick a username and start. A free account saves your results, lesson progress and coins, and is needed for the touch-typing course and for classes.

Can schools use TypeSprint?

Yes, for free. Teachers create a class in minutes, students join with a 6-character code, and the teacher sees all lesson results on a live dashboard. TypeSprint is operated from Vienna, Austria, and is GDPR-compliant.

More about TypeSprint in the classroom: TypeSprint for schools