Rapid Typing is a fast and useful application that allows you to improve your typing skills, both in accuracy and speed. The interface is fairly clear, although maybe you will have to disable the aquarium animation set as default in the background as it can disturb you when concentrating on your exercises. You can do that, in the option menu, ticking the animation option and if you wish, choosing a background colour, although the white one, is probably the clearer.

When you start the session, simply type the letters you see on the screen, without looking at your keyboard. Exercises are increasingly difficult and test you on specific letters each time, until you are able to remember better what’s where.

If you don’t know which is the correct finger to use to press a letter, press the Show/Hide Virtual Keyboard button, on the far bottom of the main frame. You’ll get a representation of your hands, telling you with which finger you should use to press the key.
At the end of each session the program tells you how many mistakes you made and how fast you have been, showing you a graph of your improvements.

With Rapid Typing you can improve your typing speed and accuracy when using your keyboard with increasingly more difficult exercises. Although it’s very easy to use, it lacks of an initial explanation on how to position and move your fingers, so two-finger typers might have to look for an alternative training method.

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Learning to touch type is one of the fastest ways to improve your productivity. Mika's Touch Type Trainer is a program designed for to improve your typing speed through the use of children's stories.

The interface is very basic and it's not exactly flashy in the graphics department but it gets down to business quickly and if you've got an aptitude for it you should see some rapid improvements. The program is based around 6 stories including such classics as The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass. The program was originally a smash hit in Japan although I suspect this is a stripped down version of it for free. The themes of the stories obviously mean this is a suitable program for children and beginners and it's a very lightweight program that you could even carry around on a USB stick easily. The one major problem with this program is that it has been very badly translated from Japanese to English so parts of the interface, and especially the instructions are difficult to understand.

Mika's Touch Type Trainer is an unusual touch typing teacher which attempts to reach beginners and children although be prepared to struggle with the translations.

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Master Key is the typing tutor that uses the standard OS interface wherever possible. Learn to type or improve your typing skills using our drills or any plain text files. Jump into the challenging ParaTyper game to keep it interesting and fun.

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Master your keyboard and become a real typing ace. Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor is an instructive program aimed at computer novices who wish to get professional level typing skills through an enjoyable learning experience. It also provides an exciting way for more advanced users to hone their typing skills.

The first thing I liked in Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor (TTTT) is that it holds your hand from the start. As soon as you launch the program a rough looking, yet friendly Viking greets you and will guide throughout the lessons. You can always rely on him if you have doubts or questions. The first exercises are meant to teach you how to place your hands correctly on the keyboard and how to type common letter associations. As you move on the difficulty rises and you are asked to type longer key words at a faster pace.

Where you need to reproduce a certain key combination a pair of virtual hands shows you how it’s done on the keyboard. Whenever you make a mistake the letters will appear in red and you will hear a beeping sound. You can check statistics to see with what keys you make the most mistakes. Not one to overlook a detail, TTTT even gives you tips on how to sit correctly in front of your PC so that you don’t tire too quickly. For the more experienced, you can also set your Words Per Minute count to see if you are typing on par with professional standards.

Once you feel more comfortable with your typing skills you can try them out in the two games provided by TTTT: Safari Park and Brick Factory. Both challenges give you a time limit to type certain key associations. You can adjust the speed to make it more difficult.

The Songseeker option blends iTunes to Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor. This option can detect what song you’re playing and will download the lyrics if you click on the iTunes logo in the right hand corner. The program will display them and you’ll have to type in the correct characters. This is another way of learning how to type, and what’s more, you can enjoy your favorite song at the same time.

Depending on the language you’ve chosen when you installed TTTT, you can set the type of keyboard you are using. For example, English users will have a choice of UK, US and Dvorak keyboards.

If you don’t feel at ease with your typing skills, I strongly recommend using Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor. You’ll be able to learn at your own pace and will improve thanks to a multitude of exercises testing your hand placement, dexterity and speed.

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If you're not the fastest typer in the word - which I'm not - that you'll really appreciate this program.

This is about the most simple typing tutorial you'll ever use. The program seamlessly integrates with many major programs including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Notepad, UltraEdit, WordPad, ICQ Messenger, MSN Messenger and Yahoo Messenger. The program is "intelligent" in that it can learns unknown and recently typed words. If you type a word that is not in the dictionary (e.g. your name), the next time you begin to type it the word will be suggested saving you thousands of keystrokes. To make your life even easier, you can define shorthand shortcuts and abbreviations such as "USA", Typing Assistant can auto-expand it to the full text "United States of America". You can define hotkeys that can be used to trigger your most common tasks. Typing Assistant can even expand this shorthand to whole paragraphs which is useful if you have to keep saying the same thing over and over again. One nice little add-on is that the program actually alerts you when you've made a spelling error with a beep.

A very easy to use program that will certainly speed up the productivity of those that can't touchtype.

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TypingMaster Pro for Windows is a personal typing tutor for learning professional touch typing skills. You will learn to type up to 4 times faster without errors and save dozens of valuable working hours every year. The new improved typing skills will help you get things done quicker.

TypingMaster's extensive, clearly structured study material covers the basics of touch typing, the numeric keypad, special marks and tips on ergonomics. Learning is supported by multi-form exercises, including graphical keyboard drills, timed texts, games and personalized review exercises.

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Jitbit VirtualKeyboard is an on-screen virtual keyboard. You can type text with your mouse, trackball, stylus (digital pen used by Tablet PC devices with a touch screen), or use it with a touch screen kiosk computer.

Whenever you are unable to use a physical computer keyboard. Virtual Keyboard also protects your confident data by preventing key-loggers and other remote keystroke trackers from spying your data. Enter your passwords, personal data, secret information safely with Jitbit Virtual Keyboard.

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Cowboy with Keyboard is a typing tutor for Windows. It is not simply a program, it's a game…
This program will teach you to type on keyboard with the help of so named "blind" method.

Want to know what the blind method is? Basically it assumes the best way to teach someone is not to give them the answers but to search for it themselves. Check it out and see!

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Pro Typist is an easy-to-use utility designed to help improve the users' typing speed. You are presented with various exercises, which are each a series of keys, which you have to type in the correct order, as quickly as you can.

You can choose to do Random Key exercises, where the series of keys is made up at random by the computer, and includes the types of characters that you have allowed by ticking/unticking the boxes at the top of the window (see screenshot, above); or you can do the Preset Exercises which are set series of keys, saved in a file in the Pro Typist folder, which you can modify to create your own exercises if you wish.

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GS Typing Tutor is a powerful and rich features typing tutor & test software. It is an ideal teaching tool for learning to type and developing typing speed. It is geared towards kids aged nine to adult.

As a beginner, you start by "hunting and pecking" and two finger typing. GS Typing Tutor will help you memorize the keyboard layout and go on to develop typing speed quickly. If you already know how to touch type, GS Typing Tutor can help you to acquire professional touch-typing skills. Faster typing speed will help you save time, every day.

How does GS Typing Tutor help you to learn type?

Complete typing lessons

The complete typing lessons include levels from the basics of typing to advanced subjects, such as the numeric keypad and special characters.

Onscreen keyboard

GS Typing Tutor offers an onscreen keyboard which helps a novice to find out where a key is, also which can help to memorize the keyboard layout quickly.

Amusing learning process

With 5 typing games, GS Typing Tutor makes the process of learning to type amusing.

Track your improvement

GS Typing Tutor will track your learning process and try to figure out your problem keys, you can improve these keys with personalized review exercises.

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This free typing tutor teaches you how to touch-type. Once you can touch-type you will not need to look at the keyboard to find the letters you want to type.

This is what TypeFaster has to offer:

• Supports multiple keyboard layouts and more can be added easily
• A clear indication of which fingers to use. This is the essence of touchtyping
• A 3D typing game
• Typing statistics and the option of practising the least accurate/slowest/custom keys
• Keyboard is not a fixed size (resolution independent)
• Multi-user support
• Teacher support (view student statistics)
• Interface for editing lesson files and game settings
• Backspace support
• Right to left text support
• Variable text size
• Lesson files can be prose or poems
• Lesson progress indicator
• Completely free with full source code availability

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This program is designed for young typists (grades Pre-K to 3rd), and teaches proper typing technique for the letter keys. Sound effects and animation are used to make learning to type fun (and funny). Help is given with an animated typing tutorial, a screen to show proper fingering, and an on-screen keyboard which highlights the correct key when needed.

There are three lessons in the program to provide typing practice. "Jumping Letters" is designed for very young students, and can be played at any pace. Each correctly typed letter is rewarded with the letter being removed by an animated "critter" chosen by the pupil. When 10 letters are completed (context-sensitive help insures success), the child gets a silly cartoon.

"Letter Drill" allows students to choose between 20 and 120 letters to practice. A report is generated at the end of the practice showing words per minute, errors, and time. The last letter in the sequence is removed in a silly way by a "critter", then the pupil is rewarded with a cartoon.

"Flying Letters" is an arcade style typing game for advanced students. The speed of the game is determined by the player (and can be changed at any time during the game). A report is generated at the end of the game, and a funny animation is displayed.

All three games allow the student to choose a group of letters (such as left hand home keys), or to practice all 26 letters. The animation in the program is achieved using stop-motion animation, as well as other techniques.

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TypingMaster Typing Test is a free, full-featured typing tester for Windows.

After warming up with the fun typing games you can evaluate your typing skills with any of the several test texts - or add your own text. You can also view test result history and print out typing certificates.

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MaxType Typing Tutor is a free typing tutor for Windows. This program allows you not only to test and practice your typing skills with any *.txt file, but to print out your test diplomas (statistical data will give you the information about 20 parameters of your typing) and even replay the mtr-record file of your own typing. Built-in Extreme Typing mode allows you to compete in speed of typing against any mtr-record file from your collection.

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Typing Test TQ is a utility with which you can find out your typing speed. Copy the text that is displayed on screen and the program will reveal all! With Typing Test TQ you can see how accurately you type, words per minute, characters per minute, number of errors, and what percentage of errors you have commited. You can also check out where you have made the errors. To keep track of your progress or just to have a record you can print out your results.

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Letter Chase Typing Tutor is a complete typing program for all levels. Letter Chase touch typing software runs on all versions of Windows and works on most networks. With Letter Chase, it has never been easier to learn to type! Beginners to touch typing are guided by animated hands to learn the keys.

Even young kids can learn the keyboard with Letter Chase, making it ideal for schools and educational institutions (many elementary and high schools are Letter Chase users), as well as corporate training (keypad training included with the program). Experts learn how to become masters of speed typing. Home computer users also benefit from learning the touch type method. No more hunt and peck, two finger typing. Within days you can memorize the qwerty keyboard and go on to developing speed.

Letter Chase Typing Tutor is a master at teaching speed typing. Two unique lessons will have you up to speed faster than any of the other typing courses, and with greater accuracy. We call them "Word Sweep" and "Letter Chase."

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Imagine that you can type faster than you could before. And you didn't have to take any expensive courses or exhaust yourself using special typing tutors.

Of course Type Booster wouldn't let you press buttons faster, but it can guess what word you are going to type according to its first letters. Just as you start typing, Type Booster offers words from its dictionary, you only have to choose the right one from the list and that's all! So, it's not only that you save your time, but also make less mistakes, because dictionary contains only correct words.

Type Booster contains an internal dictionary with more than 45000 words of the modern English. But even this is not always enough. No dictionary can contain name of your favourite cat or your company's name. Type Booster can learn. If you use a new word for three times (it can be changed in program's settings), Type Booster will remember it and will offer it as a variant in future.

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Bruce's Unusual Typing Wizard is designed to accommodate both beginners and experienced typists who are looking to gain speed or accuracy.

This software also has a unique algorithm, which is able to detect if a user is typing slightly off and adjust the typing position. This eliminates frustration of typing many mistakes when a letter is omitted or added. A game is also included, in order to help practice unusual letter combinations.

Multiple users are supported and each stores its own statistics. The user can change the text that is used to practice typing, in order to practice something more familiar, if that is desired. This feature can also be used to input a different language to practice. The onscreen keyboard and the game can also be modified to accommodate any Western language or keyboard layout.

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Feeling frustrated that your keyboard skills aren't quite up to that of the person who sits next to you in work, or other members of your family? With a bit of practice, even complete computer novices can learn to touch-type within a few weeks.

As the name suggests, Bodie's Typing is a typing tutor invented by a guy called Bodie. The program consists of a group of exercises designed to achieve a gradual training of the fingers of both hands and memorizes the location of each key to write correctly and without the necessity of looking at the keyboard.

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10 Finger BreakOut is a REAL arcade game, in which you are escaping from invaders, shooting and trying to hit balls. This is no fake - you are playing BreakOut ! (You are not just typing characters). With this free typing game you WILL have fun, but don't worry, by playing 10 Finger BreakOut you sure will be learning to type. Improve your typing skills with this free typing tutor - typing game!

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