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Ch. 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole Segment 1 of 9
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Alice in Wonderland is the best starting point in the library. The three passages here run about 710 words — roughly 18 minutes at 40 WPM — so beginners get a finish-something-today loop instead of an open-ended grind. Carroll deliberately broke vocabulary rules — nonsense coinages like "frabjous" and "galumphing", sudden capitalisation of "the Queen" and "the Mock Turtle", dialogue that shifts register from formal to absurd mid-paragraph. These interruptions to predictable patterns are exactly what breaks the autopilot typing habit that holds most beginners back. Each passage runs about two minutes, so you always feel momentum. Once Wonderland is done, the leap to a Victorian novel like Sherlock Holmes feels natural. Your position is saved in your browser; return any time and pick up exactly where you left off.
Also try: Sherlock Holmes · The Time Machine · All 20 books
This practice set contains 3 passages from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, split into 9 typing segments — about 709 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.
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, and what is the use of a book, thought Alice, without pictures or conversations? So she was considering in her own mind, as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid, whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up.
— Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll