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Top Row typing lessons
Top-row lessons keep the hands based on home row while each finger reaches upward. The pairs are introduced by finger responsibility, not by spelling the keyboard row from left to right.
These related lessons appear at the levels where the skill is introduced or reinforced. This page is a skill guide, not a separate linear unit.
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Lessons for this skill
0/14 complete · 0/70 stars
- Lesson 3 · beginner
Add U, R, and K
Targets: 7 standard · 11 mastery WPM
Accuracy stars - Lesson 4 · beginner
Add D, E, and I
Targets: 8 standard · 12 mastery WPM
Accuracy stars - Lesson 6 · beginner
Foundation Review One
Targets: 9 standard · 14 mastery WPM
Accuracy stars - Lesson 7 · beginner
Add T, S, and L
Targets: 9 standard · 14 mastery WPM
Accuracy stars - Lesson 8 · beginner
Add O, B, and A
Targets: 10 standard · 15 mastery WPM
Accuracy stars - Lesson 11 · beginner
Foundation Review Two
Targets: 11 standard · 17 mastery WPM
Accuracy stars - Lesson 12 · beginner
Add W, X, and Semicolon
Targets: 11 standard · 17 mastery WPM
Accuracy stars - Lesson 13 · beginner
Add Q, Y, and P
Targets: 11 standard · 18 mastery WPM
Accuracy stars - Lesson 15 · beginner
Alphabet Integration
Targets: 13 standard · 20 mastery WPM
Accuracy stars - Lesson 16 · beginner
Personalized Review
Targets: 13 standard · 20 mastery WPM
Accuracy stars - Lesson 17 · beginner
Beginner Assessment
Targets: 15 standard · 23 mastery WPM
Accuracy stars - Lesson 21 · intermediate
Top-Row Words
Targets: 20 standard · 30 mastery WPM
Accuracy stars - Lesson 34 · intermediate
Intermediate Assessment
Targets: 25 standard · 38 mastery WPM
Accuracy stars - Lesson 45 · advanced
Final Assessment
Targets: 30 standard · 45 mastery WPM
Accuracy stars
Keys and fingers
Keep every key tied to one responsibility
Left pinky Q; left ring W; left middle E; left index R and T. Right index Y and U; right middle I; right ring O; right pinky P.
What changes
The new skill in this unit
You now leave home row for each letter and return immediately. Home-row keys remain available, so the exercises can move from short reaches into real words.
Common mistakes
Notice these before they become habits
- Moving the whole hand upward instead of extending one finger.
- Using the left index for Y or the right index for T.
- Holding tension in the reaching finger after it returns home.
Practice plan
Accuracy-first repetition
- 1Pause briefly after each new top-row reach and confirm the home position.
- 2Keep accuracy stable when words become longer.
- 3Use QWERTYUIOP practice for extra row-focused repetition.
Reinforce this unit