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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all times. Touch typing also involves the use of the home row method, where typists rest their wrist down, rather than lifting up and typing (which can...
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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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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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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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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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a social behaviour Touch, a characteristic of a tangent, in geometry Touch, a clothing line by Alyssa Milano Touch typing, typing without using the sense...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Kewala's Typing Adventure is a 1996 Australian educational typing-themed video game, featuring a koala protagonist named Kewala. It was developed by Sydney-based...
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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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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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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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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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Memrise SuperMemo Synap Mnemosyne Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Mario Teaches Typing Smorball Tux Typing - free software (GPL) ConceptDraw MINDMAP Freemind...
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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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represents keyboards with blank keycaps, made with the purpose of improving touch typing skills. The "Professional" variants are no different to the Ultimate...
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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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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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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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Speak & Spell (toy) (redirect from Touch & Tell)
Super Speak & Spell game in which fast recall, accurate spelling, and touch-typing skills are tested with time limits. The "Secret Code" mini-game encrypted...
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are also available. Subjects range from the basics of computer use and touch typing, through to GCSE, A-Level and Computer Programming. Classes are normally...
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QWERTY (category Computer keyboard types)
also present and is typed with ⌥ Option+2. Umlauts are reached by typing ⌥ Option+U and then the vowel, and ß is reached by typing ⌥ Option+S. Newer Apple...
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Chorded keyboard (category Computer keyboard types)
data entry as early as 1959, with the idea that it might be faster than touch-typing if some chords were used to enter whole words or parts of words. A 1975...
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was ambiguous. Goldberg, David; Richardson, Cate (24–29 April 1993). "Touch-typing with a stylus". Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors...
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