RapidTyping: Touch Typing Tutor

With the digital age in full bloom, many of you would probably have no difficulty in claiming to be perfectly at home among all the different technology available. Yet could you claim to be a keyboard adept as well? For those who still haven’t acquired the skill of touch typing (typing without looking at the keyboard), here’s a simple fix.

Touch Typing Tutor is a free typing tutor for Windows. The program helps you type faster, more accurately, and teaches you to type without looking at your keyboard.

If you’re put off by the background image, don’t worry. You can easily choose a white background to remove any distractions. Lessons start out simple enough and increase in difficulty as it progresses.

A virtual keyboard is included to show you what finger should be used on specific keys. You can choose from different keyboard types which include QWERTY, AZERTY, Dvorak, ABNT2, etc.

If you find that the lessons have become easy after a while, you can go into the options menu and customize the lessons to suit your skill. Should you become bored with the lessons, a typing game is included to give you a fresh look at your typing exercises.

At the end of each lesson you’ll be shown a graph showing your progress. You can access your results at any time.

Typing Tutor runs on Windows XP and Vista.