Other than family and religion, typing is my life. I slave over a hot keyboard all day and county my lucky stars that my mother made me take a typing class in high school.
Naturally, we want our children to learn to type, even if they don’t know how to spell (one is still working on the alphabet). Of course, they can just bang on the keyboard and have fun, but actual typing becomes a skill that lasts a lifetime (or, until Apple’s Siri takes all our dictation for us).
Here’s the tale of a typing tool that improves your typing skills, or can teach you to type.
Join The Typing Tournament Generation
This is how learning should be. Fun. Typing Tournament is a typing tutor app in the form of medieval worlds. If you improve your skills you may be allowed to take on the Dark Typist.
Whether you’re new to typing, or need to improve your skills, or you want to test yourself to see how good your typing skills really are, Typing Tournament is an intriguing way to do it.
As you type through the medieval worlds, including the Dragon’s Cave or the Throne Room, you’ll have lessons, practice drills, and three different typing games– and a progress test.
This is no ordinary game or commonplace instruction app. It’s training with a purpose and an attitude.
Typing Tournament uses the Multiple Progressions Model. Think of it as steps in a staircase. You get better as you take on new challenges.
There are 16 lessons with drills, games, and a progress test that runs across three maps. You even get a printed certificate of achievement as you reach new levels.
Typing Tournament is loaded with useful features. Track up to 10 different users (tournament players). View or print out statistics for each.
The animated interface is a bit over the top with the kid-friendly attitude but the learning and improving process is solidly professional.
There’s no easier or funner way to improve typing skills and have fun at the same time. Typing Tournament is good for children, too, though you may have to explain the medieval lifestyle and the objectives.
About Alexis Kayhill
Looks better than the Mavis Beacon application I just bought for my boys. I still can’t believe the high prices for these typing tutors.
I remember a typing program on our original 128K Mac that was heads and shoulders above the goofy stuff out there today. Letters descended like the game Missile Command and you had to type them quickly lest they destroy your bases. Letters became short words which grew to longer words. There were other creative parts to the program as well that really helped speed slow fingers.
The Mavis Beacon product bites. This program looks a bit more creative. But where are the really great typing tutors?