The 200-year-old practice great writers swear by

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The Gettysburg Address (opening) Abraham Lincoln

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

49 hand-picked passages

32 master writers

10 writing techniques

How it works

Simple. Effective. Proven.

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Choose a chapter

Pick from 10 techniques: rhythm, clarity, hooks, persuasion, and more.

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Type the passage

Copy legendary prose character by character. Get real-time feedback.

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Build mastery

Track your speed, accuracy, and streaks. Watch your writing transform.

Features

Everything you need to level up

Learn from the masters

Type passages from Hemingway, Caples, and Lincoln. Their techniques become your instincts.

Track your progress

Watch your WPM and accuracy climb. See exactly how much you've improved.

Build streaks

15 minutes daily compounds into mastery. Stay consistent, see results.

Race the masters

The weekly leaderboard resets every Monday — and the master writers themselves hold paces for you to beat.

Compete

Climb this week's board

The weekly board resets every Monday, so a single good session can put you in the top 10. And the masters themselves hold paces on the speed board — beat Hemingway before you worry about anyone else.

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The method

The masters trained this way too

The Spectator method

As a teenager, Franklin took essays from The Spectator, made short notes, then rewrote them from memory — comparing his version against the original to find his faults.

Benjamin Franklin

Founding Father & printer

Copied Kipling longhand

London copied Rudyard Kipling's stories out by hand, page after page, to feel the rhythm of great prose in his own fingers.

Jack London

Author, The Call of the Wild

Typed Gatsby twice

Thompson typed out The Great Gatsby and A Farewell to Arms word for word — just to know what it felt like to write that well.

Hunter S. Thompson

Journalist & author

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