Newsletter Archive

Typersguild Update — May 2026

Newsletter

Here's everything that happened with Typersguild in the last month:

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Focus Better With Ambient Rain

You can now add a soft rain sound to your typing sessions. It’s built for deep-focus practice, giving the typing page a more immersive feel without getting in the way. More focus sounds may come later, but rain is available now for a calmer typing environment.

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Profiles Now Show Your Typing Journey

User profiles have been upgraded with a cleaner layout and a new activity grid, so your consistency is easier to see at a glance. It’s a better way to showcase your typing progress, streaks, and recent practice history over time.

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See Exactly Which Keys Slow You Down

The new keyboard heatmap helps you understand your mistakes visually. After a typing session, you can see which keys caused the most errors, making it easier to spot weak areas and practice more intentionally.

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A Revamped Leaderboard, With Country And Friends Rankings

First, congratulations to this month’s top typists: a g, Melissa Henry, and Dimitri. The leaderboard has also been redesigned to make competition more meaningful, with new ways to compare progress across global rankings, country leaderboards, and friends leaderboards. View the leaderboard

Better Ebook Uploads And Cleaner Chapters

Ebook parsing has been improved, especially for EPUB uploads. Typersguild now handles chapters, tables of contents, paragraph detection, and fallback parsing more reliably, so uploaded books should feel cleaner and easier to type through.