Supervised practice

Your supervised driving hours, actually counted

Almost every state makes a teenager log supervised practice before the road test, and almost every family ends up reconstructing it from memory the week before. Log each drive as you finish it and the arithmetic takes care of itself.

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Your progress

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No target is set, so the log is counting hours and nothing else.

How this works

Pick your state and the tool loads the practice requirement that state publishes: the total, the night hours, and the state's own words on which hours count as night. Then add a drive each time you finish one. The date, how long you were out, whether it was dark, and what the conditions were like are enough, and the notes field is there because "still bad at left turns across traffic" is worth reading back later.

Hours are rounded down to one decimal place, never up, so the log never claims an hour that was not driven. Nothing is stored anywhere except your own browser: no account, no server, no copy of your family's driving in anyone else's database. That does mean it lives on one device, which is exactly why the export exists.

Where the numbers come from, and where they stop

Of the 51 jurisdictions on this site, 22 publish a practice requirement as figures we could read on an agency page or in state law, so those states get a real target and a progress bar. Another 26 publish it as a sentence rather than as separate numbers, and those sentences are quoted as written instead of being turned into a target.

That distinction matters more than it sounds. One state states its daylight hours and its night hours as two separate totals, so the real figure is the two added together rather than the first number you read. Another lets the total drop when a driver education course is finished. Parsing either of those into a single target would produce a number that is simply wrong, so the tool shows you the sentence as the agency wrote it and lets you set your own target if you want a bar to fill. The remaining 3 have no figure we could confirm at all, and the tool says so on the page rather than filling the gap with a plausible fifty.

See the supervised hours we could confirm, state by state, each with the agency page it came from and the date it was read.

Getting the hours to count for something

The requirement exists because exposure, not instruction, is what separates a new driver who copes from one who freezes. Hours spent circling an empty retail park meet the number and teach almost nothing. Rain, dusk, a busy junction, a motorway slip road and a parallel park on a real street are where the learning is, which is why the conditions field is on the form.

When you are ready to certify, open the printable summary. It lays out every drive with a signature line, and prints without the site around it. The export gives you the same record as a file you can keep, mail, or move to another device.

Common questions

Does this replace my state's certification form?

No, and it does not pretend to. Your agency will have its own form and its own rules about who may sign it. This is the running record you keep along the way, and the summary is what you copy from when the form has to be filled in.

What happens if I clear my browser data?

The log goes with it, because that is the whole point of storing nothing on a server. Export the file every so often if the hours matter to you, which they do.

Can two learners share a device?

Each state keeps its own log, so two learners in different states are already separate. Two learners in the same state would share one log, so export one of them and keep it as a file.

Next: what to take to the office, or a practice test in your state.