AgileFingers vs TypeTastic

AgileFingers is a free web platform for practicing touch typing through guided lessons, text exercises, games, and typing tests. It is intended for students, teachers, and anyone who wants to type faster. Users can upload up to five personal texts for practice; adding another removes the oldest. Keyboard settings support selectable layouts and custom key mappings. Programming lessons provide typing practice for syntax in Python, JavaScript, Java, C++, C#, Go, PHP, SQL, and Bash, rather than programming instruction. Flashcards combine typing with foreign-language vocabulary, progress levels, and recall prompts. Teachers can create classes, add students with access codes, assign lessons or texts, and review completion, speed, accuracy, and progress. Teacher reporting covers tasks created in that area, not other student activity. Class assignments go to the whole class, with in-class limits of up to 90 minutes and homework expiry dates. The Free plan costs nothing.

TypeTastic teaches touch typing through online games and activities, with lessons that move from letters and words to sentences, paragraphs, and longer passages. Drills and typing tests sit alongside the games. Its School Edition is a K–12 keyboarding curriculum for schools and districts, with more than 700 activities and optional K–5 digital literacy content. Teachers can use the dashboard to organize classes, follow progress, customize typing tests, and manage curriculum settings. The free School Edition includes the full K–12 keyboarding curriculum and three K–5 Digital Citizenship lessons, with no ads, login, or reporting. Paid school options include advanced reporting and integrations, depending on the plan. Listed integrations for specified plans include Clever Secure Sync, Google SSO, Office365 SSO, Google Classroom, and Classlink SSO. TypeTastic runs in a browser on Android, iOS, and the web. Its HTML5 activities need no add-ons; suggested browsers are Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari. School and Large School & District tiers offer a free 60-day trial. The maker is Taito Learning Inc., based in Helsinki, Finland.