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I have text I'd like to practice on. Both passages from my favorite books, and also words that I'd like to practice typing. Any chance we could cut text from e.g. Notepad and paste it into our own 10Fastfingers account?

It would be great to be allowed to do that for pratice!

You can simply practice typing material from your books into Word. You can get even better practice by doing exercises at typingtest.com and learn2type.com.