Not sure if I’m overthinking this but has anyone actually seen typing skills improve from those gamified typing apps?

Not sure if I’m overthinking this but has anyone actually seen typing skills improve from those gamified typing apps?

At our school students are super into those racing/leaderboard typing games and engagement is high, like they’ll actually log in without being forced. Teachers like it because participation looks great.

But when they do proper typing assessments later, the scores don’t really seem better than students who didn’t use those programs.

What I’ve noticed (could be wrong) is a lot of them just use 2–3 fingers really fast to win the games, so they get good scores there but their actual technique is kind of all over the place.

Feels like the games reward speed more than proper typing form, but I don’t know if that actually matters long term or not.

Has anyone seen proper data comparing gamified typing vs more structured teaching over a year or something?

Submitted April 14, 2026 at 11:18AM by Forward_Ad_4117 https://ift.tt/HaT8Qcn