Keybr - The joy of typing
Have you ever wished for a way to practice typing so that you may become a more efficient and capable keyboard jockey? Typing at the "speed of thought," perhaps? Well so did we, but we also didn't want to bother downloading anything so that we could achieve this fickle daydream of ours. Enter Keybr, the flash based type instructor you've been waiting for.Keybr is very straight-forward, and honestly, quite ingenious. You can choose from three basic lessons that start with a certain number of keys on the keyboard, and then, as you progress through the lessons, more keys are added to the mix to make things a little tougher. As a nice touch, it keeps live track of all your mistakes and your words-per-minute (wpm), and even creates graphs of your performance.
But, things get better yet. Once you deem that the lessons have nothing left to offer you, get ready to play with custom mode, where you can edit the text that you want to practice. Very bare-bones, but oh-so functional.
The best part of all this may be that Keybr supports a surprising amount of different keyboard layouts. Everything from international keyboards (French, German, Spanish, Russian, and Italian) to regional and alternative variations - such as Dvorak, UK layouts, and others.
And although Keybr does not have games or other fancy gimmicks that might make the experience more exciting or visually stimulating, as far as free, flash-based typing programs go, you will agree that this one is rather good.
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Aalaap said 11:48PM on 1-08-2008
This sounds interesting.
There is another one online at http://speedtest.10-fast-fingers.com/ which doesn't even use Flash - it's just JavaScript (AJAX, if you will). I usually exceed 530 characters per minute, but I'm sure I can do better!
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Oregon Publishing said 2:18AM on 1-10-2008
Cool looking app. I use a Firefox extension called Addictive Typing Lessons. It has helped with my typing!
They also have another similar but it's for mastering the Numpad. It's named, what other than
Numpad Typing Drills
You can lear more about them in the following link
http://www.geocities.com/creativetom2001/addictive_typing_lessons.html
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