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The typing tutor now has three different programs (for Mac or Windows): A deluxe edition (about $20) offers more than 325 lessons with instruction in English and Spanish.

Their Dance Mat Typing program lets younger users start at the “home row” and type their way through four vibrant three-stage levels.

Tux Typing is open-source software for Windows 11/10 that comes with typing games for kids. There are two games mainly (Fish Cascade and Comet Zap) where children need to type the upcoming letters ...

Back in my day (I'm only 25) we had the perennial all-star of typing applications Mavis Beacon, but many folks without simply had to self-teach, or come to terms with their "hen pecking" abilities.

From 3rd through 5th grade, the interests of pupils learning typing change dramatically, she said. In 3rd grade, most are interested in winning medals in the JumpStart Typing program.

Typing continued to grow in popularity throughout my childhood. There are more “video game-y” attempts at teaching typing if the traditional “Mavis Beacon” program is too boring and scholastic for ...

Incidentally, when I was growing up, I attempted for a while to do one-handed typing on a regular keyboard with a homerow of F G H J.

At the end of the program, he was typing around 25 words a minute with 98 percent accuracy – not bad for a beginner. One problem I did notice is that X did not keep his hands on the home keys ...