AgileFingers news archive

There is a new option on 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. The counter shows your typing speed in real time. Keep it visible if you find that useful for maintaining your target pace.

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 made from the letters taught in the corresponding group of lessons.

We have kept the former lessons mostly as a reference to view their scores, but you can still practice touch typing with 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. They show which direction to move your finger from the home row to reach a given key.

The typing lessons are the recommended way to start learning touch typing. If something can still be improved, send us your feedback.

We recently changed the behavior of the "back" button on a typing exercise summary. Clicking it now opens the exercise list containing the text you just typed, rather than the previous screen. You can choose another exercise directly from that list.

We wanted to explain this change because the button's destination differs from its previous behavior. It now takes you to the relevant exercise list so you can continue practicing.

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.