Pick the keyboard you actually added to Windows — the drills,
the hints and the picture of the keyboard all change to match. Not sure which one you have?
The check below will tell you, and you can switch back and forth any time.
First · check your keyboard
Already inside LockDown Browser on the wrong keyboard? You are not stuck.
LockDown Browser has its own accent picker — a small square button near the top left of
the window, with a drop-down of accented characters. It is slower than typing, so treat it as
a rescue rather than the plan.
Choose a drill
Teacher: load your own word or sentence list
One word or sentence per line. Nothing is uploaded — the list is carried
inside the link you hand out, so students never have to type it in themselves.
It becomes a drill called “Class list,” usable in Sprint too.
Post this link in Canvas or Teams.
Opening it loads your list straight into the student’s copy — no typing, no accounts.
Pick a drill to begin
Everything runs in this browser. Nothing you type is sent anywhere.
Choose a drill above, then start typing.
Click here, then type
—words / min
—letters / min
—accuracy
0 / 0lines
0mistakes
press this now hold this accent key — nothing appears until the next keysmall grey letter = what is printed on your keycapsmall red letter in the corner = hold Alt Gr for it
Sprint · beat your own best
60
seconds left
0
points
×1.0 streak 0
Press Start sprint. The clock begins on your first keystroke.
Click here, then type
—words / min
—letters / min
—accuracy
—accented chars typed
Points reward the characters this class is actually about:
an ordinary letter is 10, an accented letter — é è à ç ê ë ô û — is 25.
A clean streak raises the multiplier; a mistake resets it.
Badges
My progress
The report is one file you can attach to a Canvas assignment.
It carries a check code your teacher can paste into the Class leaderboard tab to confirm nothing was edited by hand.
My score code
For a leaderboard, send your teacher this one line — in Canvas, Teams chat, or on paper.
It contains your name and your numbers, nothing else.
Type your name above and finish a sprint first.
Class leaderboard · for the teacher
There is no server and no sign-in, so scores do not gather themselves.
Have students paste their score code into a Canvas assignment or a Teams message,
then paste the whole pile in here. One code per line; extra text around them is ignored.
A note on ranking a class
Typing speed is a motor skill with an objective number, which is the one place a board like this
is fairly safe — but a permanent public ranking is still the version of gamification with the weakest
evidence behind it. Two ways to use this that keep the fun without the floor falling out for the slowest typist:
run it as a single-round arcade score that resets each time, or rank by
gain over a student’s own first score rather than raw speed. Every student’s
personal best is already tracked privately on their own machine, with no ranking at all.
Shortcut sheet
Every French character, and how to reach it on the layout you picked above.
Switch layouts at the top of the page and this table changes with it.
You want
Press
Note
Turning the layout on
A dead key does nothing at first — that is correct.
It sends an accent and waits. The accented letter appears when you press the vowel.
To type the bare accent mark, press the dead key then Space.
French spacing. French puts a space before
?!:; and inside « »
— Comment ça va ? The sentence drills follow that convention, and Word does it
automatically once the document language is set to French.
Language tools
Free, made here at Regis Jesuit, and they run entirely in your browser —
no accounts, and nothing you type is sent anywhere.
