Overall, this is a good app for brushing up your typing skills. Works well on an iPad with Magic Keyboard. But, there are no options to set the “strictness” of the app. For example, somewhere around module T15, if you type a ~200 character drill and get a SINGLE error, you have no choice but to repeat the entire drill. This leads to a loss of interest for the student. Other programs I’ve used (think Beacon) sense when you miss the same key several times and lead you to another lesson or drill that focuses on the problem keys (which IMO, is the correct way to instruct). Forcing me to repeat identical drills two or three times due to a “horrible” accuracy rate of 99.5% is lazy programming. You would think that the goal of teaching is to engage the student without creating frustration and boredom.It’s a free app though. Hard to beat that.

I'm surprised to see any review that is less than at least 4 stars! This App deserves to be number one for learning touch-typing! It is the absolute best I've ever used. I started learning with the Mac version of this App, and now I see that the iPad version is just as good! You've got to have a hardware keyboard for it to work, this is a no brainer .. I'm not sure if the negative reviews were coming from users of some older versions of this App? Or are they due to some trouble with hardware keyboards? Typist is a very minimalistic App, it gets the job done, with least bloat. This design actually gives me the vibe of an old typing machine, all from the visual elements, the colors, and even the font. All the way to the material of text you practice on, the old writings of letters and famous quotes from ancient historical writings. This is perfect for learning touch-typing, it plays with the imagination of the learner, focusing on the time where typing was a way to live!

Does not work on current iPad OS 17. Works fine on iphone, but not on ipad, and where the space bar does not register when it is pressed, but nulls the next action, which would be the pressing of the current letter being practiced, and which locks up and takes one out of the moment of practicing. Its like at that moment the space bar had been mapped for something else. Very annoying and frustrating, as practicing typing is easier on the ipad than iphone due to the size. Otherwise, fsntastic learning and practicing tool, and which I have had and used on my Mac for years to brush up on my practice. Needs to be fixed on iPad and then I will give it its deserved full 5 stars.

This app is garbage.. Do not down load waist of time .