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Its back to school time and that means time to get your kids typing and word game skills sharpened up. (Or your own for that matter!) We've collected the best free typing games from Games.com and ...
Tux Typing is a free and open source typing tutor created especially for children. [1] It features several different types of game play, with a variety of difficulty levels. [ 2 ] It is designed to be fun and to improve words per minute speed of typists.
JumpStart Typing is a personal computer game intended to teach typing skills to kids aged seven to ten. The game reuses the cast of JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain . The game is set at Sparks Stadium, where keyboarding Olympics take place between the Sparks Team and the Galaxy Gladiators.
By the turn of the 20th century, the phrase had become widely known. In the January 10, 1903, issue of Pitman's Phonetic Journal, it is referred to as "the well known memorized typing line embracing all the letters of the alphabet". [7] Robert Baden-Powell's book Scouting for Boys (1908) uses the phrase as a practice sentence for signaling. [5]
For racing, there is the default ("maintrack") option, where players race against each other by typing randomly selected quotes from a database. [5] [6] Practice racing, or "ghosting", is the game's single-player option where players can type any text on demand, and save up to ten races per day. [7]
The 2016 typing game Epistory, showing creatures with words above them: the player must type the words to attack the creatures. In 2000, The Typing of the Dead became known as the "ultimate typing game parody", adapting The House of the Dead 2 to replace the gun with a computer keyboard so that the player must type to defeat zombies.
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is an application software program designed to teach touch typing. Released in late 1987 by The Software Toolworks, the program aimed to enhance users' typing skills through a series of interactive lessons and games. Mavis Beacon is an entirely fictional character, created for marketing purposes.
Competitive typist Albert Tangora demonstrating his typing in 1938. Touch typing (also called blind typing, or touch keyboarding) is a style of typing.Although the phrase refers to typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys—specifically, a touch typist will know their location on the keyboard through muscle memory—the term is often used to refer to a specific form of touch ...