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Colemak Core Trigrams I typing lesson

Word Building · Word Building

Layout-native track: Home-row foundations

Practice common three-letter chunks so longer words start to feel grouped instead of typed one character at a time.

How this lesson behaves on Colemak

On Colemak, this lesson moves across the home row and top letter row, which makes it a coordination drill as much as a pure key-memory drill.

This lesson touches home row and top letter row on Colemak, 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.

the ing and ion ent for tha tio ter est the ing and ion ent for tha tio

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.

12 focus keys

~`!1@2#3$4%5^6&7*8(9)0_-+=BackspaceTabQWFPGJLUY:;{[}]|\Caps LockARSTDHNEIO"'EnterShiftZXCVBKM<,>.?/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 before you launch the live drill.

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

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t

Colemak home row

Key

h

Colemak home row

Key

e

Colemak home row

Key

i

Colemak home row

Key

n

Colemak home row

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g

Colemak top letter row

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a

Colemak home row

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d

Colemak home row

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o

Colemak home row

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f

Colemak top letter row

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r

Colemak home row

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s

Colemak 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 learners keep momentum with saved progress, direct lesson launches, and daily customized tests built from weaker keys.

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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