Typing Scout - Better Typing! :)

Name: Typing Scout - Better Typing! :)
Rating: 4.32 (4402 reviews)
Author: Thomas Baldauf

Typing Scout is a typewriter training app to improve your typing skills in a gamelike manner.

As of May 2026, Typing Scout - Better Typing! :) has 100,000 users and a 4.32/5 rating from 4,402 reviews.

Thomas Baldauf

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History

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Tracking since Apr 25, 2026.

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Date	Users	Rating	Reviews	Version
Apr 25, 2026	100.0K	4.32	4.4K	12
May 21, 2026	100.0K	4.32	4.4K	12
Now	100.0K	4.32	4.4K	12

Permissions & access

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Host access: None declared

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About

Scout Mode will guide you step by step through Basic Training lessons. More advanced students can train against real world texts based on Daily News - freshly delivered every day!
Additionally, choose from 4 highly customizable games to train and improve your typing skills.

Supported languages: English, German, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Russian, Marathi

Supported keyboard layouts:
- Arabic
- Bulgarian
- Belgian
- Canadian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- English (Dvorak)
- English (Dvorak Left)
- English (Dvorak Right)
- English (UK)
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Indian InScript
- Italian
- Japanese (beta)
- Latin American
- Lithuanian
- Norwegian
- Persian (Farsi)
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Portuguese (Brazil, Dvorak)
- Russian
- Slovakian
- South Slavic Latin (Bosnian, Croatian, 
  Serbian, Slovene)
- Serbian Cyrillic
- Spanish
- Swedish, Finnish
- Swiss
- Thai (beta)
- Turkish (Q and F)
- Ukrainian
- Vietnamese

In addition to free access, Typing Scout features low priced subscriptions:
- Single persons receive unlocked access and are able to track their training success.
- With a subscription for schools, many more sophisticated features for teachers and pupils are available.

Know issues:
- Accent keys (dead keys) are not detected when using Linux (this is a bug in Linux itself)

Please rate Typing Scout if you like it and want to support new features and improvements!