Chinese Typing Practice
Type what you are learning. Pick a source — your own study list, example sentences, graded readings, or text you paste in — and type the pinyin with a keyboard that lights up the next key and hands that show which finger to use.
Practise what you actually need
Most typing drills give you a fixed word list. Here the content is yours: everything you saved to your study list, the example sentences that use those words, the graded passages, or any text you paste in. Typing a word from your own list is a much better use of five minutes than typing whatever the site picked.
Pinyin is worked out for you. Characters have several readings — 行 is xíng or háng, 长 is cháng or zhǎng — so the text is matched against the HSK word list first and only falls back to the single-character reading. Anything the word list does not cover can be corrected by hand before you start.
How the typing works
One long caret
The caret runs through the whole text. Punctuation and line breaks are skipped for you, so you only ever type letters.
A wrong key does not move you
Type the wrong letter and the caret stays put, marking that spot. It is the fastest way to notice which letters you keep missing.
Keyboard and hands
The next key lights up and a hand guide shows which finger to use. Both, either, or neither can be switched off — turn them off when you want to type from memory.
Common questions
- Do I need a Chinese keyboard or an input method?
- No. You type the pinyin on an ordinary QWERTY keyboard — nihao for 你好. Tones are not required, and the space between syllables is skipped for you.
- Can I practise my own text?
- Yes. Paste any Chinese text and the pinyin is worked out for you. Characters with more than one reading are matched against the HSK word list first, so 银行 comes out yín háng rather than yín xíng — and you can correct any syllable by hand before you start.
- What can I practise with?
- Your study list, example sentences that use your saved words, the graded reading passages, the grammar cards, HSK words with recorded audio, or text you paste yourself.
- How do I type ü?
- There is no ü key, so it is written as u (lǜ → lu). Typing v also works, because that is what pinyin input methods use. Both are accepted.
- Does it remember what I get wrong?
- Yes. Every word you fumble goes into your study list, and the session counts towards your daily streak.
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