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RapidTyping

Moving hands feature with hands outlined in white to demonstrate placement on keyboard.
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Rapid Typing

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Product Description: 

RapidTyping is software that includes a keyboard trainer that will help users improve the typing speed and reduce typos. With its lessons organized for various student levels, RapidTyping will teach users touch-typing or enhance existing skills.

Main Features: 

  • The program can be used both in the classroom under the guidance of a teacher, as well as for self-study. Export of the training statistics in different formats and create training courses.
  • Courses for beginners, experienced typists, and professional testing.
  • The Introduction and Beginner courses help to learn the position of keys on the keyboard. After completing this course, users will know which finger to use to hit each key without looking at the keyboard. The course also covers upper-case letters, special symbols, and the numeric pad.
  • Courses for beginners, experienced typists and professional testing.
  • The Experienced course helps to improve typing speed by memorizing frequently used syllables and words.
  • The Advanced course helps to perfect the skills acquired by typing an actual text.
  • Testing course tests touch typing skills.
  • Virtual keyboard: To help users learn how to place their fingers on the keyboard, Typing Tutor displays a virtual keyboard with zone highlights. In this way, users always know which finger belongs to which zone.
  • RapidTyping supports almost all keyboard layouts, included QWERTY, Dvorak, Dvorak for the left or right hand, BEPO, Colemak, QWERTZ, AZERTY, ABNT2.
  • RapidTyping supports one, two, and tree block keyboards. The ergonomic keyboard and numeric pad are also covered.
  • Virtual keyboard: Moving hands: To further simplify typing lessons, RapidTyping displays one or two moving hands over the keyboard. The hands show which finger have to be used to press the current key.
  • Lesson editor: Users can also create a course. RapidTyping offers a built-in Lesson editor that lets users insert text or RTF text segments of any size.
  • The editor shows the number of words and symbols in a lesson and the ratio of letters and the TAB and ENTER - special keys.
  • The editor can split a long text into lessons of a specific length.
  • The editor filters out symbols that are missing on the existing keyboard from the imported text (such as special Word symbols or foreign-language symbols)
  • Symbols covered by the lesson are highlighted on the virtual keyboard.
  • Progress tracking: RapidTyping tracks learning progress and allows users to view the results at any time. Users can evaluate performance or that of their kids or students by simply looking at charts.
  • Student statistics are represented as tables and charts, allowing users to view progress and motivating them to take another lesson.
  • The statistics reflect the typing speed, accuracy and overall assessment of each lesson, and can be grouped by either Session, Day, Section, Course.
  • Export of training outcomes: RapidTyping can easily export student/group statistics, in the PDF, HTML, XML, CSV.
  • Classroom use: Program can be installed on the teacher's computer in a classroom so that it can be easily run on each workstation over the local network.
  • The teacher can monitor the process of learning/testing of students on his computer.
  • Using the command line will help to import a big number of groups or export the student statistics in one click.
  • Classroom use: Multi-language interface.

Options & Accessories: 

  • Introduction and Beginner courses are available for all keyboard layouts.
  • Experienced and Advanced courses are available for Arabic, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Persian, Russian, Spanish layouts.
  • Testing course for English keyboard layout.

More Information: 

See Manufacturer’s website.