Banana Typing

Every word starts with B

Banana Typing has one rule: every word in the pool starts with the letter B. Banana, bridge, bottle, balance, butter, branch, bench, basket, breeze. A pool of 200+ B-words rotates through a 40-word round. The constraint sounds limiting — it is exactly the point. By focusing your attention on a single finger group, you build the muscle memory for B specifically before mixing it into your full keyboard practice.

Why a single-letter game works for beginners

Touch-typing tutors have used single-letter drills for sixty years. The reason is mechanical: your left index finger is responsible for B (and G, T, R, V, F). When you only need to find B at the start of every word, your hand learns where home is and stays there. Mix in any letter and the hand drifts. Banana Typing is a deliberate drift-killer. We did not invent this approach — we just wrapped it in a game.

How to play

1. Click Start.
2. Type the word in the center. Every word will start with B.
3. The round ends after 40 words.
4. Your WPM, accuracy, and best-ever score are shown.

A tip for absolute beginners

Look at the keyboard. Find B with your left index finger. Now look at the screen. Type three full Banana Typing rounds. The third round, your eyes will stay on the screen the whole time. That is the moment touch typing started for you. Six rounds in, B is automatic. From there, every other letter is just B again, in a different position.

Beyond Banana Typing

For the same beginner friendliness with a different mechanic, Keyboard Zoo drills single letters (not full words) with animal sprites — great for ages 4 to 8. Fruit Typing moves to falling words with the same gentle pace. When you are ready for a real classic typing test, Mavis Beacon Typing is the staged tutor we built — home-row first, then upper, then full keyboard. Dance Mat Typing is the BBC-style staged tutor with a slightly different curriculum. Banana Typing is the on-ramp; the rest of our catalog is the road.