typist (6 products)

Assistant Typist 2.3 (Shareware, $29)

Assistant Typist is a small program that monitors the keyboard input and lets you control your typing process. Assistant Typist shows what you are typing at the bottom of the screen. Its large font enables you to control your typing by using your peripheral vision. It enables beginners to type fast. It also helps users to learn touch typing. Assistant Typist also fixes common typing errors and enhances the keyboard functionality. Note: there are many programs capable of functionality similar to autocorrect, for example MS Office. The advantage of Assistant Typist is that it gives you the uniform functionality system-wide, so all your applications instantly become autocorrect-enabled, and obtains other Assistant Typist features such as autocomplete, autoreplace, etc.

FasType Typing Tutorial 6.0 (Shareware, $25.00)

Be more productive! Use your time more effectively! If you're a professional, business person, or a student, you need the skill of touch typing to successfully use your computer in a more productive way. With FasType, it's easy to learn the necessary skills of touch-typing on PC's running Microsoft Windows. FasType can help you to: 1. Touch type without looking at the keyboard, 2. Increase your typing speed, and 3. Improve your accuracy. You can begin by selecting drills that acquaint you with the basics of the main typing area of the keyboard. Then, using disk-stored exercises, you can learn to increase your speed and accuracy with two-handed touch-typing by typing words, phrases, and sentences. With an exact image of the keyboard display on the screen, you'll learn to type quickly without looking at the real keyboard. After learning to touch-type letters, numbers, and special characters, you can go on to advanced speed and accuracy exercises. Famous quotes, technical expressions, and excerpts from popular a

Home Typist 1.40 (Freeware)

Home Typist adds typewriter sounds to your computer keyboard. The program is useful for home typists. At every touch of the keyboard there is the new sound, which makes the process of typing more interesting, amuses and reduces stress and helps to produce rhythmic typing.

Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor 3.0 (Shareware, $25.95)

Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor teaches the skill of touch typing (typing with all the fingers without looking at the keys) in an accessible step-by-step way. Ten Thumbs has received critical acclaim for its easy-to-use, step-by-step approach to learning keyboard skills. The program is suitable for learners of all ages, and is used in schools, at home, in colleges, universities and industry, including call centers and financial services organizations. Learn using full and proper QWERTY or Dvorak tuition with U.S and British keyboard support. The rich, customizable feature set includes network support, a range of feedback options and automatic weighting of lessons to get you learning most effectively. A well rounded product with appealing visual interface, additional tips and advice and even tutorials on how to sit at your computer!

TouchType Champion 1.00 (Freeware)

Instead of allowing your staff to play solitare in their breaks, simply install TouchType Champion and have your staff learn to touch type and then compete against each other for the recognition of being the champion in the office.

Typing ABC 2.0 (Shareware, $25)

With its emphasis on practical, real-world text, Typing ABC teaches typing skills more quickly than programs based upon abstract concepts. Key words for each lesson are based on the most common words that are used in schools, business, and homes. Typing ABC's lessons and drills are based upon a stunning onscreen keyboard that shows the placement of the keys. Using color, sound, and animation, there is no need for aspiring typists to look at their fingers while typing. The screen also contains copybook text for the student to type. The user gets immediate feedback for correctly and incorrectly typed keys. In addition, Typing ABC has a unique Finger Tips graphic device that reminds you of the position and direction of your fingers when typing characters. As with all of Typing ABC's on-screen feedback tools, Finger Tips may be easily turned on or off by the user. As typing skills increase, users can move from Watch and Type mode into Blind Typing, forcing them to look at the text to be typed instead of the resul