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Ch. 1: The Old Sea-dog at the Admiral Benbow Segment 1 of 9
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Stevenson's Treasure Island combines the forward momentum of adventure fiction with vocabulary that pulls your fingers off familiar keys. "Schooner", "cutlass", "doubloon", "maroon", "flintlock" — pirate-era nautical English that no standard typing test touches. The story is told by young Jim Hawkins in first-person prose calibrated for clarity, so the reading load never blocks your typing focus the way denser Victorian literature can. That accessibility makes Treasure Island popular with younger typists who want real vocabulary challenge without impenetrable sentence structure. Cliffhanger chapter endings make it hard to stop — exactly the kind of engagement that turns typing practice into a daily habit rather than a chore. The three passages here run about 720 words, roughly 18 minutes at 40 WPM. Progress saves to your browser automatically after each passage.
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This practice set contains 3 passages from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, split into 9 typing segments — about 722 words, roughly 18 minutes of typing at 40 WPM. Your position saves in your browser after every segment, so you can stop and resume without an account.
I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow; a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man; his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulders of his soiled blue coat; his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails; and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white. I remember him looking round the cove and whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards.
— Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson