How to Use TypingBIRDS

TypingBIRDS works differently depending on who you are — a student practicing on their own, a student joining a class, or a teacher setting one up. This guide covers all three, plus every major feature along the way.

Quick Start (Anyone)

  1. Go to TypingBIRDS — it opens straight into Lessons.
  2. Pick a lesson and just start typing — no sign-up needed to try it.
  3. Want to race instead? Head to Race and pick a mode from the Race menu.

Practicing as a guest works fully — your progress is saved right in your browser. Sign in with Google any time from the profile menu (top right) if you want that progress to follow you to another device.

Practicing Lessons

  1. Open Practice — it defaults to the Lessons tab.
  2. Each lesson focuses on a specific set of keys, building up from the home row.
  3. Finish a lesson to see your stars: 1★ for finishing, 2★ for hitting the accuracy target, 3★ for hitting both the accuracy and WPM targets.
  4. Pass every lesson at 2★ or better to unlock a downloadable certificate.

Other Practice modes — Timed Test, Paragraphs, Quotes, Numbers, Symbols, Random Words, and Custom Text — all track your best WPM, accuracy, and session count on your Dashboard.

Racing Birds

  1. Open Race and choose a mode, language, and difficulty.
  2. Just start typing — your bird moves down the track as you type correctly.
  3. You're racing two AI birds by default, and your own ghost once you have a personal best on that passage.
  4. Finish the passage (or run out the clock in timed modes) to see your results.

A race with no keystrokes for about 45 seconds, or one you navigate away from mid-run, ends on its own with nothing recorded — so an abandoned attempt never counts against you.

Joining a Class (Students)

If your teacher gave you a class code, you don't need an email address to join:

  1. Open Classes and choose "Join a Class".
  2. Type your name and the class code your teacher gave you.
  3. If you're joining without a Google account, you'll get a permanent student login code (6 digits + 1 letter) — save it. It's what lets you log back into your own progress from any computer, without ever needing an email.
  4. Next time, use "Log in with student code" from the profile menu instead of joining again — it restores your class and history straight away.

Setting Up a Class (Teachers)

  1. Sign in with Google, then open Classes.
  2. Choose "Create a Class" — set the language, difficulty, and typing mode for your students.
  3. Share the generated class code with your students (up to 60 per class).
  4. Open Teacher Dashboard → My Classes to see a live roster: every student's average WPM, accuracy, and session count.
  5. From the roster, download a Weekly Report (PDF) or a printable sheet of student codes to hand out in class.

See our full classroom typing guide for lesson-planning ideas.

Your Personal Dashboard

Open Dashboard from the top nav to see everything about your own typing in one place:

  • Lessons & Certificate — your progress and current certificate status.
  • Weak-Key Heatmap — exactly which keys you mistype most, with a one-tap drill to fix them.
  • Drill Progress — your best WPM and accuracy per practice mode.
  • Certificate History — every certificate you've earned, with the date and speed.
  • My Classes — every class you've joined, with a shortcut straight into that class's race.

Certificates

Pass all 8 lessons at 2★ or better to unlock a certificate — type your name and download it as a PNG. Each certificate you earn raises the bar by 5 WPM for the next one, so if you earned your first at 25 WPM, the next asks for 30. Redo any lesson from your Dashboard to chase the next tier.

Themes & Sound

The profile menu (top right) lets you set a scenery theme (Auto, Morning, Afternoon, Evening, or Night) and a weather condition (Auto/live weather, Clear, Cloudy, Rainy, Snowy, or Storm). The sound icon in the header mutes typing sounds if you'd rather practice quietly.

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