Type the passage using a US QWERTY keyboard. Escape restarts. Tab moves to the controls. On-screen Shift applies to the next clicked character.

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The Printing Press · Apply

Goal: Type a full passage of real text at a steady pace. Places and moments from the past. Capitals and dates appear often: reach for Shift with the opposite hand.

Around 1450, Johannes Gutenberg combined movable metal type, oil-based ink and a screw press. Books that once took months to copy by hand could now be printed in days. Within fifty years, millions of books had been printed in Europe, and reading slowly stopped being a privilege of the few.

A · Left pinky + right Shift

F + J · home keys
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Swipe the keyboard to see the other keys.

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US QWERTY · Fluency mode · Keep your wrists relaxed.

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