Wednesday, March 18, 2009

learning typing

  • KTouch : KTouch is a software application written for the KDE desktop environment that drills students in the method of touch typing. It comes with lessons for many different keyboard layouts across many different languages. It also has exercises for learning to use a number pad. As the user types, it keeps real-time statistics of how well they do. If the user does well enough, KTouch moves up to the next lesson. The user can also manually advance to the next lesson themselves.
  • Tux Typing : Tux Typing is an educational typing tutor created especially for children, written in the C programming language. It features several different types of game play, at a variety of difficulty levels. It is designed to be fun and educational.It is a free and open source software.
  • GNU Typist : GNU Typist, also known simply as gtypist, is a free-software typing tutor program, which is licensed under the GPL. It supports a variety of keyboard layouts, and is written using the curses library, allowing a good deal of cross-platform functionality.

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