Those of us who work with computers on a daily basis need to be as fast as possible with the keyboard, and programs like Klavaro Touch Typing Tutor can be really helpful.

Klavaro Touch Typing Tutor is a simple tool that teaches you the basics of typing and also lets you practice to improve your speed and accuracy. Lessons in Klavaro Touch Typing Tutor grow in difficulty as you make progress through the program, from single letters on the keyboard to complete texts.

The good thing about Klavaro Touch Typing Tutor is that it offers support for many different keyboard layouts and languages, which makes it suitable for a wider number of users, no matter what their mother tongue is.

On the downside, I missed some extra features found in other similar tools, such as the possibility to keep track of your results with statistics, or to customize the text with which you can practice.

Use Klavaro Touch Typing Tutor everyday and you'll be able to improve your typing speed and accuracy.

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

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SES Type is a touch typing tuition course designed for modern typing requirements. It consists of over 1200 short exercises, to gradually introduce the keys. The program is based around accuracy, rather than speed or rhythm. Committed and regular use of SES Type will increase both your accuracy and your speed, allowing you to type important documents as well as casual emails quickly and efficiently.

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