If you want to keep up with the current digital pace of doing things, you sure have to learn how to type faster. Typing with two fingers, sitting in a lousy position and looking at your keyboard while typing are some of the habits that you have to avoid in order to type faster and get things done more quickly. In order to help your brain and your ten fingers master the keyboard, you have to learn touch typing. With enough practice you will be able to improve your touch typing skills especially if you use the following services.
This service helps you to improve your typing speed and accuracy with touch typing. It gives you an opportunity to take a test and get to know your typing speed. The good news is not only about finding out about your speed but also in the fact that you are given a free typing certificate which definitely adds to your list of testimonials. Your employer will be happy to see that you have an added qualification which makes you more productive in the work place.
The service features typing tutor, typing test, learn and high scores menu functions on its website. You might be wondering what the high scores function is all about. When you visit the website and click the link you will see a list of names and scores against every name. If you like to compete, the high scores section helps you to compare yourself with others.
Ratatype.com advices its users to “blind type” which also means touch type. While you are using this service, there are some touch typing guidelines that you have to follow. They include sliding your fingers around the keyboard to find a home row position, limiting your finger and hand movement to what is required to press a particular key while keeping them close to a base position and paying attention to underdeveloped fingers which are the little and ring fingers.
It is a typing tutor that gives you the ability to learn touch typing for free. The service also provides typists of every skill level with keyboarding tutorial. It features fun content and lessons, entertaining typing games, free typing certificate, tests, custom skins and real time statistics. TypingWeb.com offers group management for schools and teaching programs such as teacher portal, teaching curriculum and they also have a blog. It also offers corporations group management too.
It has all the pros listed above but students enjoy it most because of the many entertaining games it provides. Its management feature also makes it stand out of the crowd.
Sense-lang touch typing service is also completely free. Its major advantage over the other two is that it offers an audio course that teaches transcribing. Students are able to learn how to transcribe verbal information. The service also has few features for management though its main provision is basic keyboard skills. The website features a teacher portal to help the teacher to track the progress of his or her students. Other tools accessible here include speed tests, games and tutorials all which help students to learn touch typing and increase their speed.
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Thanks Daniel
Good keyboarding tools for every internaut these days, thanks for sharing with us here!
Thanks, Adam!