Community reviews for Nitro Type

Summary: NitroType is THE BEST way to encourage your students to type. Just make sure you, another person, etc; teach them to type before hand.

Very entertaining, been at this for over 1 year now - loving it especially the Leagues!

Me and my students have been using this since 2022. My students have enjoyed and learned a lot about typing and accuracy using NitroType! My class used it as a reward to play NitroType. My classes enjoy using and playing with their friends on NitroType.

I have a list of over 100 grammatical errors that I lost races for to take note of them. A few years back I gave them a bunch of corrections making the site better. This time they are not willing to reward my efforts (just some free nitro bucks, no cost to them), but they seem uninterested, so the list sits on my computer and grammar problems fill our children's minds.

I love NitroType. I keep seeing criticisms in other reviews that it doesn't "teach" typing. Understand that this is a product put out by Typing.com. The lessons are at Typing.com, and they are free. This is meant to supplement rather than replace lessons. Or get your lessons wherever you want and use NitroType for reinforcement and something fun. They even provide graphics to set up a leaderboard on your bulletin board, which is a fun idea. The only thing I struggle with is that my students like to race each other, and since they aren't all at the same level they start to focus on speed more than accuracy and go back to their old ways. It's not a problem when they just compete against computer-assigned players, because they are all at roughly the same level of ability. Love, love, love this program.

I love Nitro Type. Definitely would recommend to anyone else. Very engaging. I have reccomended to many others

The kids love that they can play each other. My favorite thing is they can take a "test run" to start with that places them playing against others at their same skill level.

Students like this game and play it more than any other keyboarding game. They are given text to type and each player has a race car that runs based on the players speed and accuracy. I wish it did more to teach them about home row or provide data on their errors. It would also be nice to have more complex text options such as typing characters and symbols to earn better vehicles. It is simply used for practice but not deeper understanding or engagement of material.

I think this is a great tool for students that are learning (or have already learned) how to type. This tool reinforces typing skills.

If there was an area where teachers had more control of their classes, this would be great. Also, security to stop the hacks would make it fair for all, which is a lesson they MUST learn.