Children will learn by playing a fun game, while students and adults can choose pre-configured lessons or create their own training courses. Improve your typing skills with a new-generation typing tutor! RapidTyping will help you learn how to use your keyboard more efficiently in a few easy sessions for absolutely free. More advanced keyboardists may wish to look elsewhere. For free software without limitations, this program is a boon to aspiring typists. Installation and uninstallation are trouble-free. Users can create lessons, but it doesn't seem possible to cut and paste text from elsewhere into a new lesson, which is disappointing. In general the interface could be more intuitive, but most users should be able to figure it out. Users who are just getting familiar with the keyboard layout likely won't be bothered by this, but they may grow increasingly frustrated as their speed increases. And since the speed of the scroll depends on the speed of the typist, those who are already fairly quick may find that the blur of text flying across the screen is hard to process visually. Rapid Typing Tutor allows users to see no more than a few characters ahead. The main problem with the interface is that experienced typists tend to scan ahead in the text they're typing from, focusing on words or phrases rather than individual letters.

Users type through each lesson and are then shown their scores on speed, accuracy, and arrhythmic input. As each lesson scrolls across, a keyboard diagram shows an outline of hands moving to the appropriate key.

Users can choose from lessons consisting of letters, syllables, capital letters, digits and symbols, or text. The program contains a series of lessons that scroll across the screen as the user types. Rapid Typing Tutor may be a good program to help novice typists improve, but experienced typists looking to increase their speed may be frustrated by the program's interface.

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