AgileFingers vs Typing Agent

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.

Typing Agent is a web-based typing and digital-skills platform for K-12 schools and districts. Its curriculum includes keyboarding foundations for K-2 and older students, Spanish lessons, coding, digital citizenship, social-emotional learning, targeted practice, Type Your Own Adventure and Notepad. Lessons adjust to student speed, accuracy and problem keys. Teachers can assign curriculum by grade, class or student, manage access and progress in educator dashboards, and review reports covering speed, accuracy, progress, problem keys and participation. GritCoins, XP, levels, Ice Chests, leaderboards and arcade games provide practice incentives. Accessibility supports include read-aloud audio, high contrast, one-handed typing, Spanish instructions and colorblind-safe cues. Rostering and sign-on options include Clever, ClassLink, Google Classroom, Microsoft and SFTP Upload. New sign-ups receive a 3-day demo and can request a 30-day free trial from the demo dashboard. The school and district license is priced per student with volume tiers; unused licenses cannot carry over. Clever rostering is limited to district-based accounts, and each Clever-rostered school must have at least 100 students.