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Colemak Wide Core Bigrams I typing lesson

Word Building · Word Building

Layout-native track: Home-row foundations

Practice the letter pairs that appear most often so your hands stop hesitating on common transitions.

How this lesson behaves on Colemak Wide

On Colemak Wide, the focus keys in this lesson stay mostly on the home row, so the drill is ideal for controlled repetition and clean accuracy.

This lesson touches home row on Colemak Wide, so it is useful for building both key familiarity and cleaner transitions.

Practice preview

The live lesson uses the same practice text shown below, so you can preview the sequence before you type.

th he in er an re on at en nd th he in er an re on at en nd

Focus keys and locations

This is what makes the page genuinely layout-specific: the same lesson text maps to different physical zones depending on the keyboard layout.

9 focus keys

~`!1@2#3$4%5+=^6&7*8(9)0_-BackspaceTabQWFPG{[JLUY:;"'|\Caps LockARSTD}]HNEIOEnterShiftZXCVB?/KM<,>.ShiftCtrlAltSpaceAltCtrl

Keyboard preview

Highlighted lesson targets

The lesson's active characters are highlighted in blue so you can see where the sequence sits on Colemak Wide before you launch the live drill.

Focus set: t h e i n r a o d

Key

t

Colemak Wide home row

Key

h

Colemak Wide home row

Key

e

Colemak Wide home row

Key

i

Colemak Wide home row

Key

n

Colemak Wide home row

Key

r

Colemak Wide home row

Key

a

Colemak Wide home row

Key

o

Colemak Wide home row

Key

d

Colemak Wide home row

What to do after the lesson

If the pairs still feel sticky, slow down and make the transitions uniform before moving back into full words.

SureTyping helps Colemak Wide users make the geometry change stick with saved progress, layout-specific previews, and customized follow-up drills built from the moved center-column symbols and shifted right-hand positions.

Open typing test and customized training

Why SureTyping helps here

  • Live lessons save stars and progress separately for each keyboard layout.
  • Typing tests report WPM and accuracy, so you can tell whether speed or control is holding you back.
  • Customized training gives you a direct next step after a weak lesson result instead of ending the practice loop.

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