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Krapka

Typing practice on complete public-domain short stories in eight languages, with a per-sentence translation and a slider that fades the letters into dots.

Typing in Spanish, partial visibility (paper theme)

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  • Subscription
  • Proprietary

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  • Online  Intended for desktops and laptops, not mobile keyboardless devices
The story catalogue (paper theme)
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Typing in Korean (dark theme)
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  • Developed by

    UA flagMax Sushchuk

  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Commercial product.

  • Pricing

    Subscription ranging between $4 and $5 per month.

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  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Ukrainian
    • Korean
    • French
    • Spanish
    • Portuguese
    • German
    • Italian
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What is Krapka?

Krapka is a typing tutor built on real literature rather than random word lists. You work through complete public-domain short stories — Maupassant, Mansfield, Kobylianska and others — typing them a sentence at a time, in the language they were written in.

Every story comes at three graded levels, so you can take the same text as a beginner or as an advanced reader, and each sentence carries a translation you can reveal when you are stuck and hide when you are not. A slider hides any share of the visible letters and replaces them with dots: at 0% you are copying, at 100% you are typing from memory. That one control is what turns reading practice into touch-typing practice.

The library covers English, Ukrainian, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Korean, with 70 stories published so far — including full Korean coverage, which most typing tools skip. Alternative keyboard layouts are supported throughout: Colemak, Colemak-DH, Dvorak, Workman, BÉPO, QWERTZ, Neo2, and Korean Dubeolsik and Sebeolsik 390, in both row-stagger and ortholinear form.

Typing is free without an account. A $5/month plan opens the full stories.

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