Typing practice with classic books

Six classic books in English, out of copyright and free to type. Pick one and type it a passage at a time, up to three minutes a run, with your speed and accuracy as you go.

• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

  Arthur Conan Doyle · 1892

  Twelve cases for the detective of Baker Street, told by his friend Dr Watson.

• Black Beauty

  Anna Sewell · 1877

  A horse tells his own life, from a happy colthood to the cab ranks of London.

• A Christmas Carol

  Charles Dickens · 1843

  Three spirits visit the miser Ebenezer Scrooge on one Christmas Eve.

• The Jungle Book

  Rudyard Kipling · 1894

  Mowgli, raised by wolves in the Indian jungle, and other animal stories.

• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

  Jules Verne · 1872

  A professor is taken aboard Captain Nemo's submarine, the Nautilus, and round the world under the sea.

• The War of the Worlds

  H. G. Wells · 1898

  Martians land in the English countryside, told by a man who lives through it.