This site has many different levels, but does a good job in the early levels of explaining finger placement and posture. This game grows with the students.
Desert Typing Racer
Desert Typing Racer. Looking for adventure? Do you like the thrill of driving down the highway at supersonic speeds and jumping over cars in your way? Get your motor started!
You have been selected to retrieve fresh eggs from the chicken coop. The goal of this game is to catch eggs in your wooden box, that are falling from the chicken sitting on a plank high in the coop. Use the mouse to move the box across the screen to catch the eggs. If you miss an egg, it will hit the ground and crack and you will lose a box for that level. If you catch all of the eggs for that level, you will move on to the next level and the eggs will fall at increasing speeds as you progress.
Keyboard Revolution
Keyboard Revolution. Get your fingers ready for the groove and type your favorite dancing moves. Fun characters will show off your skills. Find your favorite dance tune to play along.
Cup Stacking is a game that allows learners to stack or remove the cups by typing the letters on them. They can only type the letters highlighted in black.
Trick or Type. The Trick or Treat Ghosts want candy. Help them collect candy by typing the words or characters dropping from the sky. Try not to be too scared!
Dance Mat Typing is a wonderful typing game from BBC. It teaches proper finger placement and the homerow. The game has 4 levels and each of these levels is divided into 3 stages. Learners will start with easiest and simple level and build up their skills to level 4.
Meteor Typing Blast
Meteor Typing Blast. Flying Meteors and UFOs are coming at your spaceship from every direction. Use your typing skills to blast them out of the universe!
This is a game that provides good typing practice to learners. Players have to save letters from being eaten by frogs. To do this, they need to type letters fast before the frogs swallow them.Other typing games from this website include:
This is a great tool that helps young learners recognize the letters on a keyboard and use the correct hand to stoke the key. This is a must have tool for kindergarten aged kids to help them learn two skills all in one game: letter recognition and keyboarding.
Keyboard Climber is a typing game in which kids help the monkey gets to the top fast by typing the letters that appear on the screen. Any wrong letter will result in the monkey falling down to the bottom.
Through typing letters on keyboard, players control the key man (like Pac Man, for those old enough to remember that ancient game) to eat all the food in the maze. When the food is over, players can eat the ghosts.
Outerspace Fleet Commander
Outerspace Fleet Commander. Your mission is to guide the alien fleet through the galaxy, typing letters before they stop you. Use your laser guide on multipliers!
This web tool helps kids learn to type fast using prompts from the screen. Kids are required to type the letters displayed in the screen as fast as possible so that they can achieve more letters at the end of the go. This tool also allows players to customize how they want to play this game. They can choose whether to type capital or lower case letter, select the font they like, determine the length of go and colour of the letter.
Keybr is an excellent web tool that teaches you the art of touch typing. You are required to type in the letters shown on the screen without having to look on your keyboard. This is a game for more advanced keyboardists.
This web tool helps kids learn to type fast using prompts from the screen. Kids are required to type the letters displayed in the screen as fast as possible so that they can achieve more letters at the end of the go. This tool also allows players to customize how they want to play this game. They can choose whether to type capital or lower case letter, select the font they like, determine the length of go and colour of the letter.
In Typing Ghost, players are required to destroy the ghosts by typing the words on them. To cancel the typing, players need to use the " backspace" key.
A great typing game where you type letters to keep the chameleons from eating the spider.
Get the adventurer safely through to the finish!
Whack-a-mole type game using just the home-row keys.
Other websites to visit for more typing games:
http://edtechideas.com/keyboarding-sites-for-kids/
https://www.typingclub.com/typing-qwerty-en.html
http://www.typingtest.com/games.html
http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/keyboarding_games.html
https://www.typingclub.com/
https://www.turtlediary.com/games/first-grade/typing-games.html
https://www.turtlediary.com/games/typing-games.html