Show HN: Typelit.io – Improve your touch typing by practicing on classic books

When I was first learning how to touch type, I found practicing to be an incredibly boring experience. So to keep myself entertained and engaged, I'd grab books off my reading list and type them out in a word processor. Sure beat typing drills or replaying Typing of the Dead for the nth time.

I figure others might appreciate not being bored to death while learning to type, so I put together this handy website where you can type up entire classic (aka public domain) books like Frankenstein or Sherlock Holmes.

Have fun, and let me know what you think!

Excellent. I was ordering if a possible optional setting could be to ignore upper/lower case so that way I focus on hitting the right keys and not worry about the shift key? But thats just a thought. It’s an excellent tool and I will be introducing it to my 8 year old daughter. She is just learning to use a keyboard and she loves reading the classics and she has been complaining about how boring the typing tutors that she has been told to use by her teacher. Maybe you could promote this to elementary school boards?

Nice, I was doing the same on pages that would allow it, but it was never an easy process. I cannot test your page now, but it's it possible to add a new book (I would like to practise on Ulisses) and would my progress be stored? I don't want to always retype the first page.

Looks great. An enjoyable alternative to typing randomly selected English phrases. Would indeed be neat to add some form of progress tracking and/or bookmarking.