Learn PuTTy keyboard shortcuts

Practice PuTTy 2025 keyboard shortcuts with timed drills. Memorize all 28 hotkeys and keybindings faster through interactive exercises.

Top shortcuts

  • Ctrl+A — Jump to the start of the line
  • Ctrl+B — Move back a character
  • Ctrl+C — Terminal the command
  • Ctrl+D — Delete from under the cursor
  • Ctrl+E — Jump to the end of the line
  • Ctrl+F — Move forward a character
  • Ctrl+K — Delete to end-of-line
  • Ctrl+L — Clear the screen
  • Ctrl+R — Search the history backwards
  • Ctrl+Shift+R — Search the history backwards with multi occurrence
  • Ctrl+U — Delete backward from cursor
  • Ctrl+X — Move between end-of-line and current cursor position
  • Ctrl+Z — Suspend or stop the command
  • Alt+ArrowLeft — Move to the first line in the history
  • Alt+ArrowRight — Move to the last line in the history
  • Alt+Slash — Attempt to complete filename
  • Alt+Period — Yank last argument to previous command
  • Alt+B — Move backward
  • Alt+C — Capitalize the word
  • Alt+D — Delete word
  • Alt+F — Move forward
  • Alt+L — Make word lowercase
  • Alt+N — Search the history forwards non-incremental
  • Alt+P — Search the history backwards non-incremental
  • Alt+R — Recall command
  • Alt+T — Move words around
  • Alt+U — Make word uppercase
  • Alt+Backspace — Delete backwards from the cursor

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