Type Lesson 1, the home keys 4 5 6, the first of twelve untimed 10 key lessons.
10 Key Practice: type this text. Name: ____________________ Date: __________
WPMType each word and press space after it. No timer. The run ends with the text.456456654654445566665544454554546464456444556556646655445645654654646454545565654646465656564545455465466666664455464544446455554555446555444555464654654644456555546555566565466555455656466455446
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No timer: the run ends with the text, or when you press Finish. Words per minute is correct characters divided by five; accuracy is correct keystrokes out of all keystrokes.
This 10 key practice is 12 short lessons to learn to type 10 key by touch. Lesson 1 stays on 4, 5 and 6; later lessons add a key or two, then amounts, dates and long numbers. No clock runs.
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Ten key lessons, a key or two at a time
1. Rest the right hand on 4, 5 and 6, then type the rows in the box.
2. Press the space bar with your free hand after each row. Enter is not read here.
3. Under More options, open Passage and pick the next lesson.
From number pad practice to real numbers
Lessons 2 to 4 send each finger up and down its own column: 7 and 1, 8 and 2, 9 and 3. Lesson 5 adds 0 under the thumb, Lesson 6 the decimal point. Lessons 7 to 12 are 10 key training on whole numbers, doubles, amounts with cents, dates and long numbers.
For ten key practice on paper, finish a lesson and press Print sheet under your result.
Each finger keeping its own column is one common method, not a fixed rule.
Questions and answers
How do you use a number pad?
With one hand, usually the right. A standard pad has 17 keys: the ten digits, the decimal point, plus, minus, multiply, divide, Enter and Num Lock. Like a calculator, and unlike a phone, it puts 7, 8 and 9 above 1, 2 and 3.
How do you use a 10 key without looking?
Keep the middle finger on 5, which may carry a raised bar, with the index finger on 4 and the ring finger on 6. Reach to every other key from there and come back, with your eyes on the numbers you are copying.
How do you use the numeric keypad if it moves the cursor?
Num Lock is off. In that state 8, 6, 2 and 4 act as arrow keys, and 7, 9, 3 and 1 as Home, Page Up, Page Down and End. Press the Num Lock key once and the digits come back.
Is this 10 key practice numbers only?
Yes: numeric keypad practice on digits, the decimal point and, from Lesson 10, the slash for dates. No letters and no sums to work out.
Can I do numpad practice on a laptop?
Most laptops leave the number pad out. The lessons still type on the top number row, though the finger notes no longer apply. On some laptops Num Lock turns part of the main keyboard into a pad.
How this list was compiled: All 12 lessons were written for this page; none is taken from a typing course or book. The numbers are made-up digits: none is a real account, date of record, price or code, and none is offered as a number to use anywhere. The rows were built on 2026-10-09 and checked: a lesson uses only the keys taught in it or before it, every date is a real date (days stop at 28), every clock time is a valid 24-hour time, no row comes twice, and no row is also a row of this site's number typing test. The space bar ends a row, because the typing tool does not read Enter. That a numeric keypad is also called a numpad or ten key, that a standard pad has 17 keys, that it is meant for entering numbers by touch with one hand, usually the right, that the middle finger typically rests on 5 with the index finger on 4 and the ring finger on 6, that the 5 key may carry a raised bar, that 7 8 9 sit on top as on calculators and cash registers and unlike a telephone keypad, and that most laptops leave the pad out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeric_keypad (read 2026-10-09). What the keys do with Num Lock off (8, 6, 2 and 4 move the cursor; 7, 9, 3 and 1 are Home, Page Up, Page Down and End), and that on some laptops Num Lock turns part of the main keyboard into a number pad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Num_Lock (read 2026-10-09). Beyond the three home keys, the finger named for a key is one common method and not a rule from those sources: each finger keeps its own column, the thumb takes the wide 0 key, the ring finger drops to the point below 3 and the middle finger reaches the slash above 8. Those positions are the ones of the standard 17-key pad; some keyboards move the symbol keys. Licence: The lessons, their order and their names are original to this site.