Learn to type, one comfortable step at a time

1. Get started

1. Open Practice & tests. Sign in, or choose Create account on the sign-in page.
2. Choose Arabic, Bangla or Urdu. Each language has its own lessons and progress.
3. Choose a practice category, a lesson and a time. Untimed learning lets you concentrate on completing the passage.
4. Check the input method. For Bangla, device keyboard input is the default. You must enable a Bangla keyboard on your device to use it.
5. Select Prepare practice, then type in the lower box. Your first input starts the clock.
6. Use Finish & save when you want to stop. A correctly completed guided passage is saved automatically.

Keep me signed in keeps the sign-in session for up to 30 days, subject to your browser retaining its cookies. Leave it off on a shared computer. Sign out through your username menu when finished.

2. Find your way around

The left panel contains the languages, learning path and categories. On a wide screen, lesson choices, timing, statistics and saving are in the right panel. The centre contains the lesson passage, your typing box and the keyboard underneath.

On smaller screens, controls move above the practice area. The text areas wrap long lines. As you type, the lesson passage follows your progress and your typing box follows the cursor. This scrolls inside the boxes; it does not move the whole webpage.

The on-screen keyboard is a guide and can also be clicked. Its Latin labels show the English physical keys for the built-in layout. The grey symbols show the Shift layer. Choose Shift layer to display it; choose Main layer to return. Urdu also has an AltGr layer where available.

3. Choose a lesson

Words, Sentences, Short paragraphs, Long paragraphs and Typing tests open in a shuffled order. Next shuffled lesson moves through the current round without repeating a lesson. A new round is shuffled again. Reopening the category creates a fresh order. You can still choose a particular lesson from the list.

Shuffling changes the lesson order, not the words inside a sentence or paragraph. A tick beside a lesson means you have practised it; it does not mean you have mastered it. The learning-path recommendation can suggest a particular unfinished lesson even when the category list is shuffled.

4. Practise particular letters or numbers

For Letters and numbers, Two-letter combinations and Three-letter combinations, open Practise particular letters or numbers.

1. Leave Practice source on App default lesson for a prepared lesson.
2. Or choose My chosen characters. Click the characters or digits you want. A selected button changes colour. Click it again to remove it.
3. Use Select all or Clear selection if helpful. Select at least one character.
4. Choose your time and select Prepare practice. ATT generates a fresh exercise using your selection. Two- and three-letter categories group the selected characters into combinations.

These personal drills have their own saved records. They do not count towards mastering a prepared library lesson. Available character groups depend on the language; the picker does not contain every possible vowel mark or conjunct. Use a relevant default lesson or custom text for patterns outside the picker.

5. Choose your keyboard

Open Custom text & typing options and find Keyboard input. Games have an Input selector beside their controls. A message beside the typing box shows the active method.

Bangla defaults to device input. Arabic and Urdu default to built-in input. A choice you make is remembered for that language in the same browser; clearing browser storage removes the preference. Change the input method before you start a session.

Bangla

For device input, select a Unicode Bangla keyboard. On Windows, use the language switcher or your installed typing software’s switching shortcut. Test it in a plain text editor: it should produce readable Bangla, not legacy font-encoded characters. A device Bijoy layout and ATT’s built-in layout need not use identical composition rules.

Independent vowels and vowel signs are different: ই in বই is not the vowel sign ি in কি. Let your device keyboard finish composing vowels, conjuncts and dotted letters such as য়, ড়, ঢ়. Do not insert spaces inside a letter to make it look correct.

Arabic and Urdu

These languages display from right to left. For device input, enable the correct language on your device. For built-in input, keep the physical keyboard in English and follow ATT’s key guide. Urdu uses the phonetic layout; Arabic uses Arabic 101. Punctuation and shifted characters may differ between layouts.

If letters or marks look wrong in built-in Bangla, switch to device input for reliable practice while the built-in composition issue is investigated. This guide does not claim that every built-in Bangla composition problem has been resolved.

6. Type and correct text

The upper box is the passage to copy. The lower box is your own text. Follow the full text, including spaces, marks and punctuation. Green marks correct text; red indicates a difference. The current position is highlighted. In free typing, the passage continues to follow your typing even if an earlier mistake remains.

Strict correction is optional in guided practice and is off by default. When enabled, it blocks incorrect input. Some unfinished vowels or combining marks are temporarily allowed while you compose the full character. When strict correction is off, you can type freely and correct mistakes afterwards.

Backspace removes a character or mark. It may take more than one press to remove a composed letter. You can move the cursor or select text to correct it. Completing a passage means matching the whole passage, not merely reaching its end.

Do not paste or drag text into an active typing box. To practise copied material, paste it into Your custom text first, then prepare a custom test. If an input method is composing a character, finish that composition before changing controls.

7. Understand your results

A dash means that a measurement was not recorded, rather than a score of zero. Older records keep their original measurements.

8. Progress and mastery

Open Progress and choose a language. Comparable tests compares the same standard test passage version and time limit. Learning accuracy focuses on practice accuracy. Session history includes early finishes, custom sessions and older records.

A prepared library lesson is mastered after two correctly completed practice sessions with at least 97% first-attempt accuracy. Merely opening a lesson, obtaining a tick, or fixing many mistakes at the end does not meet that requirement. Games, custom tests and selected-character drills do not add library-lesson mastery.

Continue learning suggests an unfinished lesson. Practise weak letters builds a revision exercise from your recorded mistakes, with relevant words and sentences where available. You need saved practice before ATT can identify a revision focus.

9. Timed and custom tests

Select Typing tests, choose a passage and a time, then select Prepare test. The first input starts the clock. The session saves when time runs out. Finish early if necessary, but an early finish will not enter a standard benchmark.

For your own material, open Custom text & typing options, paste between 2 and 12,000 characters in Your custom text and select Prepare custom test. Custom tests need a time limit. ATT repeats test material to provide enough text for a timed session. Custom results stay in history, separate from comparable standard tests.

For a fair personal comparison, use the same language, test passage and time. Changing a test’s stored text creates a different benchmark series; your earlier results remain in history.

10. Play the games

Open Games, select a language, game, practice type and level, then start. Available practice types include letters only, letters and numbers, words and sentences. Check the rules shown for the selected game.

Typing Race

Type the full passage correctly to move your car to the finish. The computer travels at a fixed speed. Adjust Computer WPM before starting. The untimed introduction removes the opponent’s deadline.

Falling Stars

Targets fall through a night sky. Choose any visible star by typing its first character, or tap it, then complete its text before it reaches the bottom line. If several targets share the same beginning, continue typing to distinguish them or tap the one you want.

Balloon Shooting

Choose a balloon in the same way, then type its full text before it reaches the top line. The balloons rise instead of falling. The last caught text can remain faintly in the box until you begin the next target.

Levels, scoring and saving

Untimed introduction provides a gentle start. Easy, Medium and Hard increase the challenge; the number, movement speed and available targets depend on the game. Stars and balloons normally last 60 seconds. Catching a target earns points; consecutive catches build a streak bonus and a miss resets it.

Use Pause to take a break, then resume. Paused time is excluded from active time. Reduced motion offers a less animated presentation. Finish and save before starting again. Saved games appear in game history and can be exported there. Game results do not alter lesson mastery, typing-test personal bests or leaderboards.

11. Challenges and live races

Open Compete to create a passage challenge. Choose the language, text and duration. Share its link with people you want to invite. They must sign in to take part.

A normal challenge lets people try the same passage. A live race brings participants together. Join before the host starts the countdown, then wait for it to finish. Your typing box is enabled when the race starts. The live display updates participants’ progress and results. A started live race cannot accept new participants.

Keep your internet connection available. If the start or save request fails, read the status message and retry as directed. Do not close the tab while unsaved text remains.

12. Save and export your records

Your account stores saved sessions on the server, so sign in to the same account on another device to see them. Active, unsaved text remains in the open tab and is not a reliable cross-device draft. Refreshing or closing it can lose that work.

Open your username menu for Export records (CSV), which downloads your saved practice/test results, and Personal archive (JSON; no import), which includes your own practice records and games. Games also have their own CSV export on the Games page.

These exports contain only your account’s records. A personal JSON archive is for keeping or reviewing your data; ATT has no user-facing import/restore button for it. It is not a complete application backup.

13. A useful practice routine

1. Spend two minutes on a few letters or combinations.
2. Practise words or a short passage for five minutes. Keep a steady rhythm.
3. Review your weak letters and repeat a small exercise.
4. Occasionally take the same standard timed test to measure change fairly.
5. Use a short game for variety. Stop when tired rather than practising rushed errors.

14. Frequently asked questions