How to Practice
You do not need to finish all six lessons in one sitting. Choose the action you want to learn, keep the session short enough to stay comfortable, and repeat it when useful.
Start with gentle practice
- Choose a lesson from the numbered list on the homepage.
- Leave Gentle practice selected. There is no time limit.
- Read the task above the practice area, then choose Start exercise.
- Complete the requested action. A different target appears after each success.
- Finish five successful tasks. Repeat the lesson or choose Next lesson.
The on-screen documents are pretend files. Clicking, renaming or moving them never affects anything stored on your device.
The six actions
1. Point
Move the pointer onto the highlighted document. Leave it there for a moment while the small progress line fills. There is no need to click. Start with larger, unhurried movements, then make a smaller adjustment near the target.
2. Click
Find the document named in the task. Press and release your primary button once. Most right-handed mouse setups use the left button as primary; follow your own system settings.
3. Double-click
Make two quick primary-button clicks on the same document. Keep the pointer steady between them. This site uses the browser’s double-click event, so the timing depends on your device and settings. If it feels too demanding, adjust double-click speed in your operating system or use the alternative controls.
4. Right-click
Use your device’s secondary-click action on the document. Then choose the named action from the practice menu. On a conventional mouse, this is usually the right button. A trackpad may use two fingers, a corner click or another configured gesture. The site’s menu only replaces the normal context menu on the active practice document.
5. Drag and drop
Press and hold the primary button on the document. Move it toward the requested folder while continuing to hold. Release when your pointer is inside that folder. If the document returns to its starting place, try again.
6. Scroll
Put your pointer over the document list and use the wheel or your usual trackpad gesture to reveal more items. Select the requested document. You can also use the list’s scrollbar or focus the list and use arrow or Page keys.
Use the controls
Pause stops the session. In challenge mode, it also stops the clock. Changing tabs or leaving the browser window pauses automatically; choose Resume when you return. Reset session starts that lesson over without clearing saved progress. Undo last attempt reverses the latest recorded attempt. It does not add time back to a challenge, and it is unavailable after a challenge has finished.
When to try the clock
Switch to the 60-second challenge when you want an optional pace exercise. It counts successful tasks during active practice. Accuracy is successful tasks divided by all recorded attempts, rounded to a whole percentage. A point task records a successful completed hover; simply moving over a different document is not counted as an attempt.
Compare repeat sessions of the same lesson with the same controls and device. A scroll task and a click task are different activities, so their scores are not directly comparable. There is no universal passing score.
Touch and keyboard alternatives practice the steps of a task. They do not measure the same physical mouse movement. Their best challenge results are stored separately.
For setup tips, read Mouse and Trackpad. For keyboard navigation and larger text, read Accessibility.