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free Vietnamese Telex typing trainer · practice in browser

type tiếng việt
without the fight.

start with one short free Telex lesson now. no account, no card, no app install. built for Vietnamese accents, overseas Vietnamese, Viet Kieu, and heritage learners who want dấu to feel easier.

Try one free Telex lessonjoin iPhone beta
● free while we tune the beta● 19 levels · 24 chats · weekly lyrics
meet pengo
your tone-mark sensei
(he tracks your weak spots)
who this is for

for overseas Vietnamese who know the words, but not the keys yet.

PengoType is built for the awkward in-between: you understand Vietnamese, you message parents or cousins, but adding dấu still breaks your flow. The goal is simple: make Telex feel automatic.

1you grew up outside Vietnam, but Vietnamese still feels like home
2you can speak or read it, then freeze when the tone marks need to land
3you text family without dấu because Telex feels slow on a real keyboard
4you want muscle memory, not a grammar lecture or a typing speed contest
Built from Tuan's own Việt Kiều path: Vietnamese roots, Germany upbringing, and the very real feeling of knowing what you want to say before your keyboard can keep up.
three modes

practice

paced drill with telex hints

type each phrase. watch tone marks land under your fingers. miss = red, compose = slate, clean = ink.

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most loved

chat

type a real conversation

reply to mom, order bún bò, tell ducky you're running late. just telex + muscle — your ime owns every tone mark.

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race

beat your pb or a pace ghost

monkeytype-style solo races with a penguin-avatar runway. clean run + fastest time = new personal best.

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signature feature · new every week

lyric week

every monday we pick one Vietnamese songwriter and hand-pick ≤10 lyric lines from one of their tracks. type them clean to earn a numbered artist badge, and the song + the album art unlock at the finish line.

“Quê em ở Bắc Ninh”
hòa minzy · wW24 · artist revealed on clear
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vũ.
ww23 · lạ lùng
đen vâu
ww22 · đi về nhà
mỹ tâm
ww21 · hẹn ước từ hư vô
3 of 8 past weeks · archive on /challenge
what is telex?

type combos, get diacritics.

press two ascii letters and your os's vietnamese keyboard composes the diacritic. we train the reflex — you don't need to think about it anymore.

aa → â
dd → đ
mej → mẹ
open the full tutorial →
circumflex
a
a
â
founder beta · free while we learn

finish one lesson before we ask for anything.

PengoType is in validation mode. try the first Telex lesson, feel where the tone marks click, then tell us what should be worth paying for later.

start free lesson →join iPhone beta
no ads.
no trackers, no ad pixels. supabase-only backend.
real telex.
your phone's ime owns every keystroke. we never transform what you type.
solo built.
one viet kiều dev in the bay. email me anytime.