Introduction
Welcome to AlfaTyping.com, a free online keyboarding tutor for learning and practicing touch typing.
Typing tutor contains 60 typing lessons in English, designed with professional teachers and psychologists to make learning process smooth and enjoyable.
Typing tutor has been adopted by many K12 schools in US as a leading learning method for their students.
Our visitors taking more than 20,000 typing lessons daily and this number is increasing!
All typing lessons have their recommended results to be achieved, in terms of WPM (Words per minute) and Accuracy. Although there is no strict rule to stop you to moving to the next lesson before you achieve results of current lesson, we strongly recommend to you to achieve these results. For example, Lesson #2 in English Learn "d", "f", "j" and "k" keys has recommended results: 16 wpm, 94% accuracy, and even you do not achieve these results, you can move forward to the Lesson #3, but if you do not achieve these results by repeating this lesson before you move to the next lesson, the next lesson would be very difficult to learn.
How to start
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As you can see from this picture, the wizard always informs you what was your previous lesson (Section #1), shows your results in a line with recommended results of this lesson, and shows your next lesson (Section #2). You can repeat your previous lesson, or start the next lesson.
In the Section #3 there is a drop-down list where listed all lessons of the selected language, where you can always pick up desired lesson and start learning it.
The Typing Lesson
When you start your lesson by clicking Start or Repeat buttons, AlfaTyping.com opens selected lesson in a new window:
As you can see from the picture, it shows the right fingers for each character at the beginning of a lesson, and lesson won't get started until you press the Start button. Remember that using right fingers for every character is a very important during lesson, and following these rules will guarantee the success!
In the left corner of the window there is a speed-o-meter, which shows your current typing speed, like in a car. Right below of the speed-o-meter there is a timer, which shows the time spent. In the right corner of the window a Info-Bar, which shows total characters of the current lesson, how many characters left, and count of errors (one mistyped character counts for one error)
Lesson Hints:
Correcting errors: If you mistyped a character and made an error, simply press the Backspace key on your keyboard to fix it
Restarting a lesson: After starting a typing lesson if you feel that you are going to fail, or someone disturbed you and you lost your time, then simply press F5 button on your keyboard to restart a typing lesson.
Pause: - if you want to pause a typing lesson, click 'Pause' button in a typing lesson window or press ESC button on your keyboard - and lesson will freeze until you press continue.
Lesson Results
After you finish a lesson it automatically moves you to a Lesson results window, where you can see your achievements. We keep all results in our database, so you can access them at any time in a Home page.
Here you can repeat last lesson, or close this window by clicking Finish button
