RapidTyping (32-bit)

RapidTyping is an innovative, feature-packed, and free touch typing tutor. Rapid Typing Tutor supports nearly all known languages, including all European languages, Urdu, Thai, Sanskrit, Hindi, and Arabian. It also supports all existing keyboard layouts, including Dvorak, Dvorak for a left or right hand, Colemak, BEPO, ABNT, and a number of others, so users are not limited to learning to type in a single language using a single standard layout.

The virtual keyboard of RapidTyping is color-coded for better navigation and has virtual hands for extra realism. The program offers lessons for novices, advanced users, and experts, so everyone will find a way to test their skills and improve them. Other notable features of the program include special lessons for the numeric keypad and special marks, saving of learning statistics and users' progress, a possibility to create custom lessons and modify standard ones, support for multiple users, and import of touch typing lessons from plain text and RTF files.

Full courses for Beginner, Advanced, and Expert typists:

Introduction course
First time using a keyboard. The course covers all characters typed on your keyboard.

Beginner course
This course helps to learn the position of keys on the keyboard. After completing this course, you 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.

Advanced course
It helps to improve your typing speed by memorizing frequently used syllables and words.

Expert course
It helps you to perfect the skills acquired by typing an actual text.

Learn how to use your keyboard in a fun and entertaining way for absolutely free. Rapid Typing Tutor is designed to teach adults and kids to use their computer keyboard more efficiently than ever. Learning to type can be easy and fun! The Lesson Editor makes all the lessons fully customizable. You can add, insert, change, and delete lessons, group them in courses, and review the corresponding metrics. You can also install this tool on a local server in a classroom so that it can be easily run on each workstation via the network.

Features and Highlights

• Full courses for Beginner, Advanced and Expert typists
• Virtual Keyboard: Qwerty, Dvorak, ABNT, Bepo, Colemak...
• Moving Hands
• Progress Tracking: WPM, CPM, Accuracy, Delay...
• Lesson editor
• Numeric pad lessons
• Uses the simple and colorful interface
• Classroom use
• There is a Portable version
• Total free typing software