Type Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll, 1865. 12 chapters in 212 pages of about 125 words.

Alice follows a White Rabbit down a hole and lands in a world where size changes with every bite, a cat grins without a body and a tea party never ends. Lewis Carroll wrote it for a young girl in 1865, and it is still one of the most quoted books in English.

It is a good first book to type: the chapters are short, the sentences are lively, and the dialogue is full of quotation marks and question marks, which are worth practising. Children who can read it can type it, a page at a time.

At 40 words per minute the whole book takes about 11 hours of typing. Type a few pages a day and the book keeps your place.

How it works

Press Start and the first page appears as a test. Type it as you would any test: the clock starts with your first key, and at the end of the page you see your speed, your accuracy and the keys that slowed you down. Press Enter for the next page. If you stop, the book opens at the same page next time you come back in this browser.

Chapters

1. Down the Rabbit-Hole (16 pages)
2. The Pool of Tears (15 pages)
3. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale (14 pages)
4. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill (20 pages)
5. Advice from a Caterpillar (19 pages)
6. Pig and Pepper (20 pages)
7. A Mad Tea-Party (20 pages)
8. The Queen's Croquet-Ground (20 pages)
9. The Mock Turtle's Story (19 pages)
10. The Lobster Quadrille (17 pages)
11. Who Stole the Tarts? (15 pages)
12. Alice's Evidence (17 pages)