Sunday 3rd March to Saturday 9th March 2024 (the week before NAPLAN Online)
The Typing Challenge gives schools the perfect opportunity to boost students’ typing skills. Research shows you’ll also boost your NAPLAN results. It’s open to any class or classes from any school, anywhere.
Kids just start typing and keep going! Each word typed by a student in counts towards the class average speed and words typed total during the Challenge week. Type from school or home on any device, including iPads.
If your school/class does not already have a subscription then start a FREE Trial. . Participation is completely free and without obligation. FREE Trials are normally limited to 30 days but during Term 1 2024 we will extend them to Monday 11th March to cover the Typing Challenge.
With NAPLAN online, now is the perfect time to get your class’s typing skills up to parr, give your NAPLAN results a boost and have fun.
Research has shown that Year 5 students who have learned to type with the leading touch-typing tutor, Typing Tournament, have a clear advantage and a pathway to improved NAPLAN scores. The average NAPLAN result in the Writing Task for a class using Typing Tournament will be boosted by 7 NAPLAN marks.
That’s a boost of 37% of a year’s progress.
Once your class has started typing, the Typing Tournament system keeps track of your class’s progress and displays it in real-time and in rank order on the Leaderboards. The winners of the Typing Challenge are the Leaderboard winners for the week of the Typing Challenge.
Starts Sunday March 3rd and ends 10:59:59am AEDT Saturday March 9th 2024. The system uses GMT (Grenwich Mean Time)
There are separate Leaderboards measuring the average typing speed of your class and the total words typed by your class.
Each Leaderboards is broken down by country, state, school and age group.
The Leaderboards allow users who are logged in to see the ranking of classes within their school allowing intra-school competition. Join up as many classes as you can and max the competition!
At the end of the Typing Challenge week Gold, Silver and Bronze winners are awarded to the top 3 Leaderboard ranks for both fastest average speed and most words typed categorised by age-group and State.
Results will be posted to the EdAlive website (edliave.com) during the week following the Typing Challenge.
Teachers can print individual Typing Challenge Certificates for each student from their Teacher account.
As the Leaderboards rank the results of all classes, you are able to celebrate the achievement of your class even if it is not a category winner.
Start using Typing Tournament right now to prepare the students for a final push in the Challenge Week. From one class to the whole school - all may participate in the Typing Challenge.
“The students were great all year. They really enjoyed Typing Tournament and all increased their speed dramatically.” – Mike Burgermeister (Chisholm Catholic College)
Only results for classes are shown. No individual results are visible.
We employ standard deviation filters to ensure that results that are atypical for a student are discounted and not used for the calculation of class results. This methodology assumes that each student will build their skills in a progressive manner. This mechanism guards against the possibility of others with higher typing speeds artificially inflating a class result by typing in their account or students randomly mashing the keys to artificially boost their typing speed and output.
