Home Row Hero

What students practice

Students practice the home row keys, resting their fingers on A S D F and J K L semicolon, feeling for the bumps on F and J, and spelling a whole word before a tunnel of gates reaches them.

How to play

Players press the key shown as the open lane in each gate to spell a word letter by letter, earning a combo bonus for clearing words in a row; a wrong key stops the track and shows the key and the correct finger, then that word returns later. Three crashes end the mission.

Teacher Setup

Teacher Setup lets a teacher choose which keys are in play, from the whole home row to just the left or right hand or the keys F G H J, hide the on-screen key letters so eyes stay on the word, and set speed and whether the answer is shown after a miss; the end screen offers a printable student report listing the keys and words to practice.

Play it in Starship Arcade

Home Row Hero is one of 16 games in the Typing room, a members room on the Promenade.