Chapter 9 of 16
Common words and bigrams
A small set of words makes up half of all English text. Drilling them, and the letter pairs inside them, lifts your speed on everything.
- 1
Top 50 words
The fifty most common English words. Type them until they feel like single keystrokes.
target 25 wpm
- 2
Top 200 words
Expanding to the top 200.
target 26 wpm
- 3
Common bigrams
th, he, in, er, an, re, on, at: pairs that roll off the fingers.
target 26 wpm
- 4
Same-finger pairs
ed, de, ce, un, lo, ki: pairs typed by the same finger are the slowest. Drill them deliberately.
target 25 wpm
- 5
Alternating hands
Words whose letters alternate between hands are the fastest to type.
target 28 wpm
- 6
Trigrams
the, and, ing, ion, tio, ent: three-letter chunks worth memorising.
target 28 wpm
- 7
Word families
Groups that share endings: -tion, -ing, -ment, -ness.
target 28 wpm
- 8
Function words in sentences
Articles, prepositions and pronouns in real sentences.
target 29 wpm
- 9
Review
Mixed drills over the chapter.
target 30 wpm
- 10
Chapter test
One-minute test. Pass with 30 WPM and 96%.
target 30 wpm