Rapid Typing Tutor

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What is Rapid Typing Tutor

Increasing your typing speed can be a boost to your professional career and help you to complete tasks quicker. Rapid Typing Tutor promises to do just that, with their specially designed software that delivers typing lessons in an easy to follow format. Rapid Typing Tutor has gotten mixed reviews, with novice typists singing its praises and veteran typists finding it limiting.

If you have always been a typist of the "hunt and peck" variety, Rapid Typing Tutor will help you to master touch-typing in just a few short lessons. The program is broken up into lessons that teach the elements of typing with text that scrolls across the screen as you type. At the completion of each lesson, the software displays the speed, accuracy and input of the typing. New typists find this instant feedback helps them to progress as they go along and improve quickly.

Because Rapid Typing Tutor only allows you to see the text that is directly ahead of where you are typing, it works well for experienced typists who have the tendency to anticipate the text instead of actually reading it. People who use Rapid Typing Tutor report that their typing speed increases dramatically, and some reported having gone from typing 40 words per minute to over 90 in just a few practice sessions.

One of the best features and the biggest drawbacks of the software is that the speed of the scrolling text is controlled by the speed of the typist. If the user is typing slowly, the text will keep pace. A faster typist will find that the text will scroll at a rate that makes it hard to keep up. As novice typists become more skilled and pick up speed, they will notice that the program follows suit, making typing more of a challenge. This can be both encouraging and infuriating.

Pros

-Helps improve typing by suggesting proper hand placement

-Improves the ability to type numbers and gain speed

-Simple to use interface makes practice simple

Cons

-Quickly scrolling text can be frustrating to fast typists

-Limited ability to create new lessons

-More suitable for novices than for experts

Rapid Typing Tutor bills itself as the improved follow-up to predecessors that created customized lessons for new typists. Lessons are broken up into segments, from basics to digits, symbols and the number pad. Since the download for Rapid Typing Tutor is free, it's supported by ads, some of which can be distracting when you are concentrating on your work.

Many users enjoy the ability to create custom lessons and simply practice the elements they need. Some simply create lessons on the numeral pad while others work on symbols and special characters. Users also report being able to type with greater accuracy after having used the program.

When it comes to a free and intuitive software that will help to improve your typing skills, Rapid Typing Tutor definitely fits the bill. With easy to follow lessons, instant feedback and progress statistics, the application will make improving typing skill simple.