Alternatives to Klavaro
An open-source touch-typing tutor with customizable lessons for learning to type without looking. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Klavaro
An open-source touch-typing tutor with customizable lessons for learning to type without looking.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Klavaro.
TIPP10
A free touch-typing tutor for the browser and desktop that repeats your mistyped characters more often.
TIPP10 is an open-source GPL typing tutor that repeats mistyped characters more often and runs on Windows, macOS, Linux and in the browser.
KTouch
A touch-typing tutor from KDE with graded lessons, an on-screen keyboard and progress statistics.
KTouch is a KDE typing tutor with graded courses, custom keyboard layouts and detailed statistics, but it runs on Linux only.
TypingClub
A web-based touch-typing course with graded lessons, games and hand-posture guidance.
TypingClub is a browser-based course with hand-posture guidance and teacher tools, needing no install, but it is proprietary and has no desktop app.
Keybr
A browser-based adaptive typing tutor that generates practice lessons from the keys you struggle with.
Keybr is a free browser-based tutor that generates lessons from your weak keys, but it needs an internet connection and is not open source.
Monkeytype
A minimal, highly customizable typing speed test and trainer that runs in the browser.
Monkeytype is a customizable browser typing test with detailed speed and accuracy stats, better for measuring speed than as a structured beginner course.