For parents and teachers
Touch typing means typing without looking down, with each finger looking after its own keys. Our course teaches it the way a teacher would beside the keyboard: the key to press lights up, and a pair of animated 3D hands moves the right finger to it. Children aged 5 to 11 learn in two stages, and the first lessons of each are free to try now, with no account.
One finger at a time. Children find the bumps on F and J, then meet each finger and its home key before reaching to new rows.
44 lessons in 8 steps:
Posture and the home position first, then a pair of fingers per lesson, the top and bottom rows, and on to punctuation, symbols and speed.
46 lessons in 10 steps:
Both index fingers rest on the keys with small bumps, F and J. The other fingers line up beside them on A, S, D (left hand) and K, L and the semicolon (right hand): this is the home row. Each finger then reaches up or down to the keys in its own column and comes back home. The thumbs press the space bar. These are the keys our lessons teach for each finger, in the same colours the lessons use:
| Finger | Home key | Keys it presses |
|---|---|---|
| Left little finger | A | A ` 1 Q \ Z |
| Left ring finger | S | S 2 W X |
| Left middle finger | D | D 3 E C |
| Left index finger | F | F 4 5 R T G V B |
| Right index finger | J | J 6 7 Y U H N M |
| Right middle finger | K | K 8 I , |
| Right ring finger | L | L 9 O . |
| Right little finger | ; | ; 0 - = P [ ] ' # / |
| Thumbs | Space | Space |
All 44 KS1 and 46 KS2 lessons are part of the U Teach Mi online platform, with progress saved to your child's account. The same membership includes step-by-step coding courses for Years 1–6, Daily Maths & English, creative projects, a live online lesson with a teacher every Wednesday from 5 to 6pm UK time, and a parent dashboard showing your child's progress.
7 days free, then £15 a month for up to two children (£7.50 a month for each extra child). Card needed; cancel any time.
The KS1 course is for children aged 5 to 7 (Years 1 and 2) and teaches one finger at a time. The KS2 course is for ages 7 to 11 (Years 3 to 6) and moves faster, adding punctuation, symbols and speed. A child who already knows the home row can start KS2 at any age.
Touch typing needs a physical keyboard, so a laptop or desktop computer is best. The free letter games, such as Kangaroo Keys, can also be tapped on a tablet.
A UK QWERTY keyboard: the double quote is on 2, £ is on 3, @ is next to the semicolon and # is beside Enter. When a character needs Shift, the screen lights the key and the Shift key on the other hand.
Each lesson sets an accuracy target. Every keystroke counts, a wrong key is shown straight away and there is no Backspace, so the score is honest. Pass the target and the next lesson opens; miss it and your child simply tries again.
No. The first 13 KS1 lessons and the first 8 KS2 lessons run in your browser without signing up. Progress is kept in that browser only. With a membership, progress is saved to your child's account and the whole course opens.
£15 a month covers up to two children. Each extra child is £7.50 a month, so three children are £22.50 and four are £30. The free games and the free typing lessons stay free without an account.
The first 7 days are free. You add a card when you start the trial, so your children's access carries on without a gap, but nothing is charged during those 7 days. The first £15 payment is taken on day 8.
From your parent account: Account, then Subscription & Billing. You can also email uteachmi@gmail.com. Cancel before day 8 and you pay nothing. After that, cancelling stops future payments and access runs to the end of the month you have paid for.
Create your parent account, start the trial, then add each child from your parent dashboard with their first name and year group; we create their login straight away. A child who already has a U Teach Mi account can be connected instead. A third or fourth child adds £7.50 a month each, and adding one during the trial costs nothing until the trial ends.
Not ready for touch typing yet? Our free typing games start with finding single letters, and free Year 1 and 2 lessons cover early coding. Teachers can share this page, or either free lesson page, with families.
