There is a new option in the settings page. Now, you can hide the speed counter. If you do so, the counter will be hidden in every exercise as you practice fast typing. Turning off the typing speed counter is not recommended, as it shows real-time how fast you type. Viewing the speed while typing on the keyboard should motivate you to keep the paste of your target touch typing speed.
However, if the typing speed counter distracts you and causes you to make more errors during the typing process, you now have the opportunity to hide the counter. So keep practicing touch typing with or without the counter, and have fun while learning.
Typing lessons have changed. There are more of them, and they are simplified. The first sets of lessons cover only letters, but depending on the keyboard layout, there may be some special characters. Lessons with numeric characters and special characters are separated into a different set of lessons. There are two types of summaries: with lowercase characters only and with uppercase characters. The lesson summaries contain words built of letters taught in a summarized set of lessons.
We have kept the former lessons mostly as a reference to view their scores, but you can still practice touch typing doing these lessons. The programming languages section is in a separate tab and is no longer on the list of basic lessons.
You can now easily view which keyboard layout the lessons apply to. Some of the lesson titles have arrows. It means that to press a given key, your finger needs to move from the keyboard home row following the direction of an arrow.
The typing lessons are the recommended way to start your touch typing learning process, and we hope that you see all the introduced changes as positive enhancements. If something still can be improved, send us your feedback.
We have recently changed the behavior of the "back" button shown on a typing exercise summary. Clicking the button instead of redirecting to the previous screen now redirects to the list of the touch typing exercises that includes the typed text. This makes it easier for you to choose another typing practice.
Although it may seem like a minor enhancement to our typing practice, we wanted to ensure clear communication regarding this change to avoid confusion. Regrettably, the "back" button had limited usability in the past, but now it is pretty useful.
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.