Prove your speed to employers and friends, and show the world what you can do! With our step-by-step approach you will learn the core touch typing skills in web in just four hours - after that you're ready to use touch typing in everyday work. There's also over five hours of additional material covering speed building, numbers, symbols and more. Typing is the process of writing or inputting text by pressing keys on a typewriter, computer keyboard, cell phone, or calculator. It can be distinguished from other means of text input, such as handwriting and speech recognition. Text can be in the form of letters, numbers and other symbols. The world's first typist was Lillian Sholes from Wisconsin,[1][2] the daughter of Christopher Sholes, who invented the first practical typewriter.[1]