TypeLift vs Typing.com

TypeLift is browser-based touch typing courseware for practicing keyboard skills and improving typing speed. It offers free lessons, a typing test and statistics for tracking results over time. Lessons are assembled dynamically for each session, and error analysis brings recurring mistakes back into practice. A visual keyboard uses colored keys and markers to guide users toward keys and finger combinations. Registered users can create up to 10 custom lessons. TypeLift Pro adds training objectives, weekly exercise plans, recommended lessons, detailed exercise results and expanded statistics; the maker describes it as free of advertising and distraction. The trial ends after 7 days or 60 minutes of typing practice, whichever comes first. Practice can begin without registration, but Pro purchases must be assigned to a user account. The monthly Pro subscription is $1.99 a month, billed annually; the page says prices are for annual payment and exclude VAT. Other listed options are 11.90 USD for each 3 months, $23.90 a year or 49.90 USD one time for unlimited use.

Typing.com is a web-based typing tutor and digital literacy platform for schools, teachers, and students from kindergarten through high school. Its free edition provides grade-based typing lessons, tests, and games. PLUS adds digital citizenship, AI literacy, computer applications, coding, and test preparation, along with assignments, customizable grading thresholds, progress monitoring, benchmarks, and daily practice goals. The platform supports guided lessons, adaptive practice, skill diagnostics, personalized drills, and 30 keyboard layouts.

Teachers can use sign-in or rostering options for Google, Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, Clever, ClassLink, and Schoology; selected Google Classroom classes and students can also be synced manually. Typing.com works in recent Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge browsers on laptops, Chromebooks, and tablets. It requires an internet connection and has no offline mode or installation requirement. The free edition is ad-supported, retains data for 70 days, and lists email-only support. PLUS is ad-free with unlimited data retention and priority support. A 30-day trial is listed, but prices for PLUS plans are not.