41 keyboard and typing games, growing with your child.

Start with the free keyboard playground on the TotType home page: every key a toddler presses shows a giant letter, number or hand-drawn friend, and in Chrome or Edge on a computer the keyboard lock captures shortcuts like Ctrl+W so the tab stays put (the Windows key and Cmd+Q always get through). From about age 2, Bubble Pop Letters, Counting Garden and Animal Sounds add letter and number recognition without any reading.

15 of the 41 learning games are free and open with no account at all, as does the keyboard playground. A free parent account (no card) is what saves progress, badges and certificates. The Family plan ($4.99 a month) and Family Plus ($9.99 a month) unlock the remaining 26 games, and each of those can be tried first in a free 60-second demo; both plans cancel any time from the dashboard.

Keyboard play can start around age 1 with a locked playground that only shows what each key does. Letter recognition games suit ages 2 to 4, first real typing (whole words, then sentences) suits 5 to 7, and fluency games with speed and accuracy suit 7 and up. From 8 to 12 there are touch-typing lessons, typing races, a typed story, proofreading, real code and a typing defense game. Every game on this page is tagged with its age band.

Not easily. In Chrome or Edge on a computer the page goes fullscreen and the keyboard lock captures shortcuts such as Ctrl+W, Ctrl+T and F11, so a curious key-masher cannot close the tab with them. Safari and Firefox have no keyboard lock, and no website can block operating-system keys like the Windows key or Cmd+Q, so start from a window with nothing important behind it. Parents exit by holding Esc (or three fingers on a tablet for three seconds).

The free-tier games and the keyboard playground open with no account at all. Anyone can try each paid game in a free 60-second demo; to keep playing, the paid games need an account and a plan. A free account, with no card, is what gives progress somewhere to live. Points, best scores and badges are kept per account, under its leaderboard nickname; key and session counts and which letters, numbers, colours, shapes and words were got right are kept per child profile. What your child typed is never recorded.

Most of them. 31 of the 41 learning games are voice-narrated, so pre-readers can play independently. Four that are not (Two-Player Race, Online Race, Memory Match and Music Maker) need no words to play, and the six typing games for ages 8 to 12 are for children who read, since reading the text is the skill. All the artwork is original, with no movie-character look-alikes.

At five and six, games that type whole short words: Alphabet Rally for A-to-Z key fluency, Animal Typist for three- to six-letter names with the next letter glowing, and Rocket Race for sight words. At seven, Word Ladder for longer words and Sentence Dash for a real words-per-minute and accuracy score. All of those sit on a paid plan. Two free games with no account fit the same years: Home Row Hop (5–8), where a frog hops across lily pads as the child presses home-row keys, with finger hints, and Rhyme Time (5–7), which asks for the missing first letter of rhyming words like cat, hat and bat.

Start with the two free ones, with no account: Turbo Type, a typing race on true facts that reports words per minute and accuracy, and Keyboard Quest, a story that only moves when it is typed. For real touch typing, Typing Dojo teaches the whole keyboard belt by belt, and Typo Patrol practices spelling and proofreading; both are on the Family plan. Family Plus adds Code Typer, real HTML, Python and JavaScript typed and run, and Word Fortress, a typing defense game. Each paid game has a free 60-second demo.

None of it, on any device. All 100 games play in whatever browser tab you happen to have open — laptop, desktop, Chromebook, tablet — and there is no listing to search for, nothing to sideload and no setup program to approve. The one thing that can be installed is the website, not a game: certain browsers volunteer a banner reading “Add TotType to your home screen”, and taking it pins a shortcut beside your other apps. It downloads no software, and refusing it costs you nothing.

Yes, with one platform caveat worth hearing in advance. A desktop running Chrome or Edge gives a game genuine fullscreen. An iPhone offers no Fullscreen API for a page to call at all, so the fallback it receives is a mode pinned across the entire viewport: it covers the screen and plays perfectly, but the browser is not enforcing it and the keyboard lock cannot ride along. Fingers count as a proper input everywhere on the site — any game wanting letters raises an on-screen keyboard rather than insisting on hardware.

No — none of the machinery that would allow it was ever built. Nowhere in any game is there a text box, a microphone, a friend list or an invitation to accept. Online Race, the one title that joins two devices, does the joining with a throwaway four-character room code and gives nobody a route to send so much as a word. What appears on the leaderboard is the account’s leaderboard nickname: a random one like SpeedyPanda42 unless a parent changes it on the dashboard (we suggest not using a child’s real name), and never anything from the account itself, such as its email.

Contextual only, meaning chosen from the page itself rather than from anything about your child: non-personalised, no profile built, no remarketing. They appear on pages like the game lists and the guides; the pages where your child actually plays, the keyboard playground and every game's own page, carry no ad units and request no ads, and a signed-in account on a paid plan sees no ads anywhere. We add nothing that interrupts — no between-level interstitial, no video to sit through before a game continues. The itemised version is on the privacy page.

From the keyboard playground, a running tally of presses and only the tally — which key was struck is no part of what leaves the browser. That figure feeds the lifetime counter on the home page; with a parent signed in, it also adds to the child’s progress view and counts as points on the daily, weekly and all-time leaderboards under the account’s nickname (the count, never the keys). Arcade scores are separate: finish an arcade round while signed in with a verified email and the round’s score posts to that game’s board; a demo run posts nothing. A child profile holds a nickname and that child’s progress (key and session counts, and which letters, numbers, colours, shapes and words were got right) — no legal name, no birth date, no photograph. The one addition is a teacher’s class link in Live session or Saved roster mode: that class keeps each child’s first name, their typing-test speed and accuracy or press counts (never the text or which keys), and when they were last seen, and anyone with the link can see the class board of first names and best scores.

Under three, open the keyboard playground and hand over the keyboard; you need nothing from us to do it. Three to seven, begin with Counting Garden, Shape Tap, Color Splash, Animal Sounds or Bubble Pop Letters, or the free typing games Key Finder, Big Keys, Letter Twins, Home Row Hop, Rhyme Time and Feast Street, depending on the age band — none of them needs an account either — then climb from there, adding the free account when you want the progress kept. Eight and over, the free typing games Turbo Type and Keyboard Quest need no account, and a demo run in the arcade needs nothing; confirm the account email and let them loose there without limits.