A sunset orchard, rose plums with home-row letters, and a raccoon on a mossy branch. Type any hanging key — A, S, D, F, J, K, L, or semicolon. A clean hit drops the plum and feeds the raccoon. A miss shakes the grove and breaks the streak. Built for first-through-fifth graders learning touch typing on the full home row.
Pick a Grove
Every level uses the full home row. Easy hangs six letters with more time. Hard hangs all eight keys at once.
Read a Pod
Several letters hang at once. Type any hanging letter. The matching plum falls and the raccoon nibble-feeds.
Type That Key
Use a physical keyboard or tap the on-screen home-row keys. A hit pops points. A miss flashes and costs a life.
Beat the Clock
Feed as many pods as you can before time or lives run out. Chase a new best on each difficulty.
Hanging Home-Row Letters
Rose plums swing from the canopy. Each shows a home-row key. Type that key and the plum drops to the raccoon.
Full Home Row Every Round
Every difficulty uses A, S, D, F, J, K, L, and semicolon. Easy hangs six letters with more time. Hard hangs all eight at once.
Score, Streak, and Lives
Hits pay in hundreds and grow a combo. A miss resets the streak and costs a life. Best score is saved per difficulty.
Home-Row Board
An eight-key board sits under the grove. Hanging letters glow on the keys. F and J have the home bumps. Tapping a key counts the same as a physical key.
Grove Nibble is a home-row typing game for elementary students. A sunset orchard holds rose letter plums and a raccoon on a mossy branch. The player types any hanging home-row key. Correct keys drop a plum and feed the raccoon. Wrong keys flash, reset the streak, and cost a life. The goal is to keep both hands on A S D F J K L and semicolon and build speed without looking away.
Home Row First
The keys stay on A S D F J K L and semicolon. Students practice the starting position before they reach the rest of the keyboard.
Visible Hands
F and J show the home bumps on the board, the same ridges students feel on a real keyboard.
Instant Feedback
A hit drops the pod and flies points off the branch. A miss is loud and obvious. Scoring is not hidden behind a Done step.
Touch or Keys
Play sits under the grove. Tablets can tap the eight-key board. Desktops can type without looking down.
The full home row on every difficulty: A, S, D, F, J, K, L, and semicolon. Easy hangs six of them. Hard hangs all eight. Shift is not required. Semicolon and colon both count as semicolon.
That is a miss. The grove shakes, the streak resets, and you lose one of three lives.
Yes. Tap the glowing home-row keys on the board under the grove. You can also tap the grove and use the device keyboard.
No. Home-row practice stays on the English QWERTY letters. Buttons and labels follow the site locale.
First through fifth grade, when students are learning touch typing on the home row. Stay on Easy for more time while both hands settle on A S D F and J K L semicolon.