Touch typing

Touch typing is a style of typing without looking at the keyboard using all ten fingers. Each keyboard key has assigned a corresponding finger. AgileFingers presents on a virtual keyboard a correct finger placement during touch typing. To type faster you should follow this convention.

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AgileFingers is a course that teaches you how to master touch typing. Fast typing exercises are divided into lessons, texts, and games.

Touch typing learning process at AgileFingers consists of the following steps, which are accessible from the top application menu:

Choosing a goal (typing speed) to achieve
Fast typing exercises:
- Lessons for particular keyboard keys
- Exercising by typing full texts
- Typing games
Typing test

Let's discuss these steps. Firstly, you need to decide what speed of typing you will try to achieve. Then you do some touch typing exercises. Your results will be compared to your goal so that you know when you can test your skills. When you are ready, take a test. Once you pass a test, choose a higher goal to achieve. Then you start over by practicing to prepare for the next test.

Please remember that learning is supposed to be something pleasant. If you don't feel like doing the keyboard typing lessons, practice only with texts. If you want to have more fun, play typing games. If setting a speed goal is too stressful for you, set it to the lowest possible value, and never take a test.

AgileFingers does not impose the order of exercises. Everyone learns differently. The most important thing is not to be discouraged from learning, even at a cost of a lesser progress in touch typing speed. It is better to make small but regular progress than to have a long, exhausting session of learning how to type faster, and then postpone the next session indefinitely.

Touch typing pays off

You would surely like to spend more time on things you like. However, you feel that slow typing makes you loose a lot of time.

Bad typing habits are reinforced each time when you use your keyboard incorrectly (when a wrong finger clicks a given key). It makes you unable to type more quickly. Such inconspicuous wasting of time is terrible, because precious minutes accumulate in hours, days, weeks... irretrievably lost in life.

AgileFingers is a course that teaches how to type faster. It has been created by professionals, for current and future professionals. I'm the main creator of AgileFingers. As a programmer I know what it means to use the keyboard everyday, even a dozen or so hours.

Unfortunately, education systems focus on teaching handwriting rather than learning how to correctly type using the keyboard. Because no one teaches you to type properly, you get the wrong habits that you can not get rid of. Programs that aim to teach you how to type fast, mostly concentrate on the speed, not correctness. Therefore, using the wrong program, you can type faster, but incorrectly. In this case, if your work requires a lot of typing, you may have future health problems related to abnormal muscle tension in the hands and wrists. Besides, typing incorrectly is unnatural it will never lead you to achieving the speed you are able to achieve.

Before I started to study computer science, I learned how to type quickly using a program installed from a CD. I practiced every day for a few minutes for a good couple of months. I did not realize how great benefit it would bring in the future.

I have been a professional programmer for many years. When I think about how much time and health I didn't loose thanks to touch typing, I am glad that I have learned to type faster in the past.

AgileFingers is a course that will help you type faster and correctly. Virtual hands show which keys you should press and which fingers should be used for that. You do not have to focus on the text, just press an appropriate keyboard key with an appropriate finger. In time your muscles will remember the correct finger movements.

The road you need to go to master fast touch typing is relatively long and generally tedious. Writing texts is not a very exciting job. AgileFingers, however, makes that such a monotonous activity can be pleasant.

I wish you persistence in learning how to type faster. By investing your time now, you will save it much in the future.

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...but before you start, remember:

press each key with the same finger as the virtual hands do
use your own keyboard, not the one you see on the screen
when learning, accuracy is more important than speed
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May 24, 2023

Settings for signed-in users

This news concerns only users who practice typing as logged-in users of the AgileFingers program.

From now on, the settings of your account are connected to your account, not the browser. If you log in with your account from another browser, all your typing settings, keyboard layout of the typing practice screen, etc., will load once you log in.

Dec 2, 2022

Type faster with refreshed sheep game

We have refreshed the "Sheep Rescue" touch typing game. Now you can learn how to type faster on the keyboard by playing an even more immersive game. We have completely redesigned the game's graphics. The goal of the game is the same as before: rescue as many sheep as you can.

The game is divided into levels. On every fourth level, the landscape will change. The landscapes represent four weather seasons. The higher the level, the more sheep appear. You have to be careful which key you press because you will lose one point if you press a key that does not represent the letter that appears on the sheep.

A good way to take a break from the routine touch typing exercises is to play games that teach you how to type faster. Hopefully, you will like the new look of the game.

Nov 4, 2022

New old touch typing game

Star Words touch typing game has been completely redesigned and rewritten. The goal of the game is the same as before: you have to type the words that appear on the stars. The number of stars is the same as previously - for a full-size computer - 12 stars. Everything else is quite different.

The entire game has a separate timer. If no stars explode during the countdown, you advance to the next level. Yes, this touch typing game has levels. The higher the level, the more difficult it gets - either there may be more stars, in the beginning, the words may be longer, or the star counters may be faster. Each star has its own timer. When it drops to zero, the star will explode and the game is over. The stars change color in time so you do not need to concentrate on the timer, you can look at the color of the star. We hope that the new version of the game will make learning touch typing even more fun for you.

Oct 17, 2022

Keyboard settings to improve the learning of touch typing

There are some new settings that you may prefer to change in the process of learning how to type faster.

"Allowing typos" is the setting represented by the padlock icon above the text you type. If the padlock is unlocked, typos are allowed. This means that if you make a typo, you can keep typing. If you type a single character incorrectly and the padlock is locked, you are not allowed to continue typing. You must correct the incorrectly typed character. The wrongly typed character is displayed in red above the current character you should type. Moreover, you can't use backspace while the padlock is locked, so if you make a typo your typing accuracy score will be lowered.

We have added an explanation of this new setting icon, as well as other icons that are visible in the text typing screen of the AgileFingers touch typing course. See the help section for a description.

In the settings section, which can be accessed by clicking the gear icon in the upper right corner, there is a new option for sound volume. By default, the sound volume is at maximum. Now you can change the volume of the keyboard typing sound as well as the volume of game sounds. The changes will apply to all sounds that are in the entire keyboard typing course.

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