Pinky Finger Typing Practice

How this list was compiled: 24 drill lines, 7 phrases and 147 English words for the two little fingers on a QWERTY keyboard. Which finger types which key follows the standard touch typing chart, checked key for key against the United States layout of the free KTouch typing tutor, https://invent.kde.org/education/ktouch/-/raw/master/data/keyboardlayouts/us.xml (read 2026-10-08): the left little finger types Q, A and Z; the right one types P, the semicolon, the slash and the apostrophe; a capital takes right Shift for a letter of the left hand and left Shift for a letter of the right hand; the colon and the question mark take left Shift. The home keys, the little finger reaching up to P and back to the semicolon, and the remark that some typists leave the little finger out as the weakest finger are from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_typing. That the Shift key is worked by the little finger is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout. That pinky, also spelled pinkie, is another name for the little finger, common in American and Scottish English and taken from the Dutch word pink, is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_finger (all three read 2026-10-08). The words are a selection from the ENABLE word list, https://norvig.com/ngrams/enable1.txt (172,820 words, read 2026-10-08). Every word was checked against that list, and Q, A, Z and P are half of its letters or more; rude, unkind, medical and obscure words were left out. The drill lines and the phrases were written for this page, the phrases from words of the same list, and no line here stands on another list of this site. Counts from the ENABLE list, taken on 2026-10-08: 1,071 words of three letters or more have half their letters or more on a little finger; six entries use those four letters alone (aa, pa, pap, papa, pazazz, zap); Q, A, Z and P are 11.1 percent of all the letters in the list and A alone 7.6 percent, which counts dictionary entries, not running text. Other word lists give other counts. A same-finger jump is two different letters in a row typed by one little finger. A word with no note has from half to under two thirds of its letters on a little finger and neither a jump nor a double letter. On a keyboard that is not laid out as QWERTY, and on a phone, the finger notes do not apply. Licence: ENABLE word list: public domain (its release statement is quoted at http://wordlist.aspell.net/scowl_v1-readme/, read 2026-10-08). The selection, the groups, the notes, the phrases and the drill patterns are own work.