TypeTastic vs Typing Agent

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.

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.