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Free TypeFaster Typing Tutor Portable: Touch typing tutor

Posted In Portable apps, Education - By Jack on Monday, October 24th, 2011 With No Comments »

TypeFaster is a free typing tutor teaches you how to touch-type. Once you can touch-type you will not need to look at the keyboard to find the letters you want to type. 

Features:

  • Supports multiple keyboard layouts and more can be added easily (see the developers section). Includes support for non-rectangular keys. The following keyboard layouts are currently supported: Danish, Finnish, French, French-Belgian, German, Hebrew (no lesson files), Italian, Norwegian, Numeric Keypad, Portuguese, Spanish, UK-English, US-Dvorak, US-English
  • A clear indication of which fingers to use. This is the essence of touchtyping.
  • A 3D typing game.
  • Typing statistics and the option of practising the least accurate/slowest/custom keys.
  • Keyboard is not a fixed size (resolution independent).
  • Multi-user support.
  • Teacher support (view student statistics).
  • Interface for editing lesson files and game settings.
  • Backspace support
  • Right to left text support.
  • Variable text size.
  • Lesson files can be prose or poems.

Download Details

  • System Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
  • License: Free / Open Source (Launcher: GPL, TypeFaster: GPL)
  • Link download: TypeFaster Typing Tutor Portable 

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