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PostPosted: Tue Mar 14, 2024 6:16 pm    Post subject: KTouch - KDE Touch Typing Tutor Reply with quote
KTouch - KDE Touch Typing Tutor
http://ktouch.sourceforge.net/
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KTouch is a program for learning how to touch-type. KTouch is FREE and offers you an easy way to learn to type on a keyboard quickly and correctly. Every finger has its place on the keyboard with associated keys to press. Starting with only a few keys to remember you will advance through the levels of the training lecture while more and more keys are introduced. And finally you will be able to type very fast and accurate, because you no longer need to search for the keys on the keyboard (and because you will definitely use more then just two fingers).

KTouch shows the keys you need to press and the finger you need to use for that key on the screen. You needn't to look down on the keyboard to search the key. Therefore you will get used to looking at the screen only and thus you will learn touch typing much faster.


* KTouch supports various keyboard layouts and you can easily add own keyboard layouts
* A number of training lectures are included by default (english, german, french ... etc)
* You can add and modify training lectures using the built-in lecture editor
* Detailed training statistics help you to find possible typing problems (keys that you typed wrong very often)
* The program calculates typing speed and your accuracy on-the-fly and displays them while you type
* Many settings (including the colour scheme of the program) can be modified by the user
* During training the level can be adjusted automatically according to your typing skill: if you type fast and correctly you will move a level up, otherwise stay in the level or even move down. So you will learn touch typing like playing a game.

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How to optain KTouch

KTouch is part of the KDE-EDU package and is included in most linux distributions that include KDE. You only need to install the kdeedu package and KTouch should be in it.

If you want to get the KDE EDU package via subversion, go to the KDE Edutainment page and follow the download/installations instructions. A short summary about how to optain KTouch via subversion is given in the following sections.



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 15, 2024 12:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sounds kinda like a clone of something called Mavis Beacon --- My son got it for me a few years back .... didn't do any good, I still can't type Laughing Laughing Laughing



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