Free typing tutor * Online typing test * Typing games

Home Page: Gelitech

Platform: Windows 2000/XP

Licence: Shareware, $14.95 USD

Size: 0.8MB

Better Typing assists you with touch-typing. Basically, the software is not a typing tutor training you to type effectively by doing some artificial exercises. It is supposed to help you right away with typing an actual text without looking at the keyboard.

The program shows you a virtual keyboard over the application in which you are going to type. The keys of the keyboard are colored in different colors to assign the groups of keys to particular fingers. The home position of your fingertips over the keyboard is also demonstrated. When you memorize the position of the keys and develop the sense of touch to find the keys, you may no longer need this program. However, Better Typing can be used not just to develop the sense of touch but also to provide you with further visual help to support the sense of touch.

When you press a key it gets highlighted on the virtual keyboard so that you can see that your fingers are doing the right job. Also the typed text can appear in a special field to control input.

If you switch between languages the virtual keyboard changes accordingly, which enables you to learn touch-typing in almost any language.

* You can Touch Type immediately without having to learn Touch Typing After installing Better Typing you will be able to type with ten fingers without looking at the keyboard. You don't need any more: a typing course or a typing tutor software to learn touch typing.
* Touch Typing with Dvorak keyboard-layout (without learning) The proven benefits of Dvorak keyboard-layout are: increased productivity (speed and accuracy) and reduced finger movement.
* Typing in almost every language Did you try to type a Russian text or German '?' with US-Keyboard ?
* Using spell checker in every Application Better Typing spell checks everything you type.
* The text you are typing is always in the same position on the screen and it is of the same size, despite the font size in the text-editor you are currently typing.