Family guide

For parents

Turn finding the keys into an adventure you can enjoy together. Children type to move through challenges; you can help them notice a small success and choose a comfortable next step.

Try Key Kid free · Physical keyboard required

Keyboard Runner can be played as a guest without giving us a child’s name, email address, birth date, school, address, or precise location. Guest progress stays on the device.

Start with a small, comfortable session

1. Choose one goal. For a first try, find the bumps on F and J in Key Kid. Follow the finger guide and aim to find each key accurately. You don’t need a speed target.
2. Play together for a few minutes. Let your child press the keys. Ask “Which key are you looking for?” and leave time to find it. There are fantasy enemies and missed-target penalties, so pause if the action feels frustrating.
3. Finish while it still feels good. Press Esc to pause, then choose “Finish & see practice.” The first Esc during the home-row introduction skips that introduction. You can stop before completing a level; an unfinished quest does not earn a completion star.
4. Notice something specific. The summary shows correct attempts, keys used, and one suggested focus. Ask “Which key felt easier?” Choose another short session together when your child wants to return.

A path from keys to connected text

• Key Kid: finger pairs, home row, then reaches to the rest of the keyboard.
• Key Crafter: two- and three-letter words for joining familiar keystrokes.
• Key Wizard and Key Legend: longer words for practicing a steady rhythm.
• Story Trails: short phrases lead to passages with spaces, capitals, punctuation, and paragraph breaks. Passages unlock through play.
• Worlds and Curious: apply typing in themed quests, explore keyboard questions, and experiment with Math Makes Motion.

Choose by comfort with the keys, rather than age or a race to the hardest level. Reading the words and finding the keys are different challenges. Story typing practices entering text; it does not by itself measure reading comprehension.

What the practice summary means

Accuracy compares correct and incorrect typing attempts in that run. “Steady this run” describes keys with at least five correct attempts and at least 90% accuracy. A suggested focus appears after repeated mistakes, rather than a single slip. These are game feedback rules, not a school grade or proof of mastery.

Peak WPM is a short burst during active typing, with pauses excluded. It is not a standardized typing-test score, and different activities are not directly comparable. Use accuracy and comfort first. The game cannot see which fingers a child uses; the hand guide is an aid, not a posture assessment.

Try the learning before considering the upgrade

• Guest access: Key Kid, the 60-second Sprint, and Curious’s keyboard and Math Makes Motion activities.
• Free parent account: Key Crafter, World 1, separate player profiles, cloud saves, Activities, and the basic Shop.
• Family Pass content: Key Wizard, Key Legend, the remaining quest worlds, Story Trails, and premium Shop access for profiles under the same parent account. Gameplay prerequisites and earned-coin unlocks still apply.

Family Pass is not on sale yet and pricing has not been announced. Guest and free-account content can be played now; premium entries may show a lock. Subject Labs is an internal preview and is not included as an available activity in this offer.

Consider an upgrade when your child enjoys the free practice and wants the longer-word challenges and stories. There is no need to buy to keep practicing the free activities. We have not yet established a measured learning gain for Keyboard Runner, so we do not promise a particular typing speed or school outcome.

Family accounts are optional

A parent or guardian can sign in to create separate player profiles and optionally use cloud saves. Profiles use a nickname so family members can tell saves apart. Please choose a made-up or non-identifying nickname rather than a child’s full name.

What analytics do—and do not—include

Optional product analytics help us answer basic questions such as whether the app loaded, which broad mode was opened, whether a run finished, and whether a coarse error category occurred. They do not include typed text, nicknames, names, email addresses, account IDs, profile IDs, advertising IDs, or full URLs.

You can turn analytics off from Family account → Privacy. We also honor Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track browser signals. Turning analytics off does not change gameplay, account access, or cloud saves.

No ads or social features

The fast-launch version has no advertising, behavioral advertising, tracking pixels, cross-site tracking, direct messaging, public chat, or public free-text submissions. The Bounty Board is hidden and its public API is disabled for launch.

Parent controls

• Play in guest mode and keep progress local to the device.
• Use only non-identifying profile nicknames.
• Choose whether to share anonymous product usage.
• Delete player profiles and their cloud saves from the Family account screen.
• Clear local gameplay data through the browser’s site-data controls.

Payments

Keyboard Runner is in a free public beta. Family Pass pricing has not been announced and is shown as $$ until it is decided. Any future Family Pass will be a one-time parent-account purchase—not a subscription—with no paid virtual currency or randomized rewards. Every profile under the purchasing parent account would receive the same premium access only after a signed payment-provider confirmation.

The purchase screen requires an adult confirmation and links to the pre-launch Terms and Refund Policy. Those documents and the support process must be reviewed before live checkout is activated.

Questions or deletion requests

Email [email protected]. Please write from the parent email used for sign-in if the request concerns a family account.