Touch typing (also called blind typing, or touch keyboarding) is a style of typing. Although the phrase refers to typing without using the sense of sight...
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and speed up typing and to prevent or correct errors the typist may make. Hunt and peck (two-fingered typing) is a common form of typing in which the...
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Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is an application software program designed to teach touch typing. Released in late 1987 by The Software Toolworks, the program...
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familiarize players with keyboard use and to improve skill at touch typing. Successfully typing a letter or word is tied to an action, such as firing a weapon...
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Tux Typing is a free and open source typing tutor created especially for children. It features several different types of game play, with a variety of...
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purportedly the only person using touch typing at this time, wins a decisive victory over Louis Traub in a typing contest held in Cincinnati, Ohio. This...
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Dvorak keyboard layout (redirect from Dvorak typing)
designed to improve touch-typing, in which the user rests their fingers on the home row. It would have less effect on other methods of typing such as hunt-and-peck...
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Microsoft SwiftKey (redirect from TouchType Limited)
efficiency while typing on a mobile phone. According to the Microsoft SwiftKey website, SwiftKey allows the user to speed up their typing process by "giving...
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contains all the letters of the alphabet. The phrase is commonly used for touch-typing practice, testing typewriters and computer keyboards, displaying examples...
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The idea of one-hand typing is to touch type using only one hand (e.g. the left one), or mainly one hand. Its history and application are closely related...
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Synap Mnemosyne Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Mario Teaches Typing Smorball Touch Typist Typing Tutor Tux Typing - free software (GPL) Typequick ConceptDraw...
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for stenotype, electronic music keyboards, gaming, and touch-typing generally. During normal typing on a conventional computer keyboard, only one key is...
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1933) invented touch typing in 1888. He was a court stenographer at Salt Lake City who taught typing classes. He taught himself to touch type without looking...
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typing game because the Windows shareware program he used to learn touch typing lacked a multiplayer mode. Although older games, such as The Typing of...
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Khmer Touch typing, typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys Russian Bank, a card game All pages with titles beginning with Touch Contact...
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Keyboard layout (redirect from Typing cyrillic)
used to type letters and other characters. Typically, there are three rows of keys for typing letters and punctuation, an upper row for typing digits and...
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Words per minute (redirect from Characters Per Minute in Typing)
desktop computers and smartphones, fast typing skills became much more widespread. As of 2019, the average typing speed on a mobile phone was 36.2 wpm with...
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Touch Typist Typing Tutor is developed by Sector Software. Touch Typist typing tutor is the earliest example of typing tutor software currently still on...
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Graffiti just as people learn to touch-type. Hawkins recalled his insight: "And then it came to me in a flash. Touch-typing is a skill you learn." The program...
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QWERTY (category Computer keyboard types)
to speed up typing. Indeed, there is evidence that, aside from the issue of jamming, placing often-used keys farther apart increases typing speed, because...
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Virtual keyboard (redirect from Selfie Type)
smartphones, that predicting words, based on what the user is typing, assisted in increasing the typing speed. At the beginning of development of this keyboard...
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to learn, choosing appropriate Chinese characters slows typing speed. Most users report a typing speed of fifty characters per minute, though some reach...
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experience", David Lynch Teaches Typing is a satire of touch typing educational software titles such as Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. A likeness of David Lynch...
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Spelling, Writing Beach, Dyslexia Quest, Nessy Numbers, Nessy Fingers Touch Typing and Dyslexia Training for adults. In July, 2007, the company published...
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typographical mistakes; putting one's fingers in the wrong place while touch typing is the easiest way to make this error. Electronic transcription errors...
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traditionally used as input language switcher, convenient for usage with touch typing. Support for this is present in KDE, GNOME and other desktop environments...
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Touch-type Read and Spell is a computer program that uses the Orton-Gillingham Method to teach phonics and typing. It is a multi-sensory approach. Keyboarding...
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Typequick (category Typing software)
Kewala's Typing Adventure saw the typing course re-envisioned as an adventure game aimed at a younger demographic. Typequick is a Sydney-based touch-typing software...
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hunting-and-pecking, by intermittently pressing one shift key or the other while touch typing, or by using an online tool to convert existing text. Camel case All...
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entered using a stylus Pouces, an input method using touches and swipes Fleksy—Eyes-free touch typing for touchscreen devices, also used by blind / visually...
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