Tangent · Glove80 typing trainer

Tangent teaches finger placement on a physical keyboard — it works best on a laptop or desktop. The demo below shows what it does.

Watch the 45-second demo

Click here and start typing · end each line with ␣ · ⌫ corrects · esc restarts

Headline source

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Your text<br>Copy LLM prompt

Keymap

OS input

Text

Key legends: base character in the middle · shift symbol top-left · ⌥ symbol bottom-right

Finger:<br>pinky<br>ring<br>middle<br>index<br>thumb<br>rest position

Speed<br>– wpm

Accuracy<br>– %

Lines done

Best<br>– wpm

Insights — your problem keys<br>reset stats

Reading list<br>clear

Layout cheat sheet

I got the Glove80 and couldn't find a good trainer that helped me find the right keys. I built this to help me — maybe it is useful for somebody else too.

Your stats, keymaps and reading list stay in this browser's local storage — not cookies, never sent anywhere. The whole trainer is one HTML file: grab it from GitHub and run it locally if you'd rather not load it from the web at all.