Fingerspelling

The skill isn't spelling. It's reading it back.

Learners can produce A to Z within a week. Then a Deaf signer spells their street name at full speed and it's a blur. Reading fingerspelling means holding a word as a shape over time and chunking it — so that's what the drill trains.

Receptive speed drill

Streak 0

Pick a speed and a word length, then read the word as it's spelled.

Or press Enter.

The manual alphabet

Tap any letter for how the hand is held, and the letter it's most often confused with. Two letters move: J and Z.

Numbers 0 to 9

Pairs that blur at speed

When you misread a word, it's usually one of these.

A / SA / TS / TM / NU / VV / KH / UG / QK / PD / FE / OR / U