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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. After every four levels, the landscape changes. The landscapes represent the four 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.

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. On a computer with a large screen, up to 12 stars can appear at once, as before. 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 - there may be more stars, longer words, or shorter timers for the stars. 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.

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 type the expected character to continue. 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 on the text typing screen of the AgileFingers typing practice. 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 typing sounds and game sounds. The changes will apply to all sounds that are in the entire keyboard typing course.

Word-jumper is a new touch typing game that makes learning to type on the keyboard more fun.

A game can provide a change of pace between texts or lessons. Word-jumper gives you another way to practice typing common words while guiding a character past obstacles. Try it when you want some variety in your typing practice.

Word-jumper is a game for practicing touch typing that consists of levels. Each level is a bit more difficult than the previous one. The higher the level, the longer the words you will type. The initial levels do not have all the obstacles and enemies that you can see in the higher levels. After every four levels, the scenery changes so you may be curious what worlds the jumper visits. After each level, you will see a summary that you can use as a break before challenging the next level.

You have been able to report errors in AgileFingers exercise texts for some time. We had not announced this feature, so we would like to draw your attention to it.

Not all of the touch typing text exercises are perfect. There may be some typos in them, or they may contain expressions or grammatical constructions that are no longer used in your language. It is very hard to control the quality of the texts. You can help us with that.

If you notice an error in the text you type, you can go to the text correction page. You can let us know about a particular error or copy the whole original text and make corrections there. Your suggestions can improve the texts for everyone who uses them to practice touch typing.

AgileFingers typing practice has changed again. This time we have made a significant change to its user interface. Although the colors and the style of the page are the same, the page layout is quite different. You will notice that you can scroll the entire page now. We hope that the touch typing course will be even more effective for you.

Another significant change of AgileFingers is visible on the main page. There is a news section. We will be putting here information about significant updates, new articles, etc. There is historical news we will also add in order to be able to keep track of how AgileFingers has evolved.

We have recently been working on the appearance of the typing course. We still have some user-submitted text corrections to review and will process the feedback as soon as possible.

As this change is so significant, we recognize that something may have gone wrong. If you notice any errors, please do not hesitate to let us know here.