Simple Advanced Touch Typing Test For Custom Text

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Hint 2: you can add your typing task by clicking Configure typing task when editing or adding new slide.

Create your own typing course with slides of content and actual typing practices

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The Typing module can be edited to contain your own practice text

Use the buttons above to create your first touch typing course

Text Collection:

Wiki Generator 2!:

Text Generator:

Website to text 2!:

Font size:

Font style:

Textfield height:

Custom height: (locked)

Right word label:

or image link:

Expand and view mistakes:

Show correcting accuracy plot:

*This generator is for training fingers for muscle memory. Generated text will be much harder to type.

Text length:

Shortest word length:

Longest word length:

Include custom symbols:

*(Recommended to use for other keyboard layouts)

*US keyboard layout

All columns:

All rows:

C.1

C.2

C.3

C.4

C.5

C.6

C.7

C.8

C.9

C.10

C.11

C.12

Row 1

Row 2

Row 3

Row 4

*If you want to include your keyboard layout, please send email to [email protected] and include simple layout image (like ours) and list by symbols for each row and column.

Automatic Text Replacement Enabled: (when enabled this will automatically replace (un)desired symbols)

Different keyboard layouts: Not your layout? Look below..

Left Hand:

Finger 1:

Finger 2:

Finger 3:

Finger 4:

Finger 5:

Left Touch Typing Hand

Right Hand:

Finger 6:

Finger 7:

Finger 8:

Finger 9:

Finger 10:

Right Touch Typing Hand

You don't need to submit 10 finger values, the values will be automatically picked up by the system when the game starts.

"Not your layout?" section:

Full country name for your layout:

(don't forget to fill the symbols for 10 fingers above, before pressing submit)

Please add all the basic - most used symbols only, eg. letters, numbers and punctuation! If you write too many, then the processing speed at typing will be slower. If you do not add enough symbols, then the results will be less accurate. Arround up to 10 symbols per finger would be tolerable, unless your layout has a lot of symbols (in this case use as many you want until you cover the basic symbols).

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TopTyper Rank

TopTyper Beginner

Your typing skill is basic and suitable for occasional computer use.

As a TopTyper Beginner your typing skill is better recommended for finding and viewing information (for example searching the internet) than creating text content.

By practicing you can achieve an average typing skill, which will be just a matter of time!

Next level: 20wpm, 80% accuracy.

TopTyper Intermediate

Your typing skill is average and suitable for normal computer use.

As a TopTyper Intermediate your typing skill is recommended for finding and viewing information (for example searching the internet) and it is also useful for creating text content.

By practicing you can achieve an advanced typing skill, which will be really useful and applicable for most everyday computer tasks!

Next level: 40wpm, 90% accuracy.

TopTyper Advanced

Your typing skill is advanced and suitable for most computer tasks.

As a TopTyper Advanced your typing skill is recommended for creating text content withouth any additional requirements of typing speed, accuracy and time limitations.

By practicing you can master the typing skill, which will be useful also for professional typing!

Next level: 60wpm, 90% accuracy.

TopTyper Master

You have mastered the typing skill and you can perform entry-level professional typing.

As a TopTyper Master your typing skill is suitable for any typing task and also for performing basic professional typing.

By practicing you can achieve a professional typing skill, which will be useful for your professional career!

Next level: 80wpm, 95% accuracy.

TopTyper Professional

You have a typing skill of a professional typist.

As a TopTyper Professional your typing skill is perfected and you can effectively complete any professional task.

By practicing you can achieve an elite typing skill, which is not achieved by many!

Next level: 100wpm, 95% accuracy.

TopTyper Elite

Your typing skill is elite as it exceeds any typing requirements and is useful for typing competitions.

As a TopTyper Elite your typing skill can more than perform any typing task and can also be used typing competitions.

As a TopTyper Elite you have more than perfected your typing skill and can now practice to achieve a better place at the typing competitions.

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Speed

Entered right words:
Entered wrong words:

Entered right symbols:
Entered wrong symbols:

Right keys pressed:
Wrong keys pressed:

Number of corrected symbols:
Number of uncorrected symbols:

Accuracy

Entered right words:
Entered wrong words:

Entered right symbols:
Entered wrong symbols:

Right keys pressed:
Wrong keys pressed:

Error correction

Number of corrected errors:
Number of uncorrected errors:

Deleted wrong symbols:
Deleted right symbols:

All pressed symbols:
All deleted symbols:

Other typing data

Longer/Equal length/Shorter wrong words:

Wrong words per minute:

About typed text

Difficulty of typed text:
Average length of words:

Number of text repeats:

About chosen text

Difficulty of chosen text:
Average length of words:

Number of words in text:

Number of symbols in text:

Finger Use

(Depends on keyboard layout settings)

*Finger 1 is left-most finger on the keyboard etc.

*Blue are the anticipated fingers, orange are the actual fingers.

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Basics

Definition of Touch Typing

What is touch typing?
Touch typing is a skill that uses muscle memory for identification of keys on the keyboard without the aid of vision.

Why do we learn touch typing?
Touch typing allows you to use all ten fingers in a rapid sequential order and thus enables a very high-speed data communications.

Touch typing has many other advantages that we will look at next.

Advantages

A high degree of accuracy, readability and clarity of written texts.

The higher speed of data entry than other methods.

The possibility of learning new spelling of foreign or technical terms by using the natural patterns of pressing letters on the keyboard.

Reduces the physical effort in terms of physical strain and concentration that we use for typing.

Makes it easier to edit text.

We do not need such a high ability of visual perception, it is not necessary to constantly look at the keyboard.

Hand writing is more demanding than simply pressing a key on the keyboard.

We can edit texts later on compared to hand written and other content.

We can concentrate on the content quality visible on the screen instead of concentrating on the keyboard.

At the end of the day we are less exhausted and more productive.

Differences in typing skill

Time between two consecutive pressing of keys.

The duration of the keystroke.

Typing speed.

Frequency of errors, which represents the frequency of backspaces.

Frequency of the use of extra keys on the keyboard.

The sequence of letting keys go while in pressed state.

The applied force when pressing keys.

Characteristics of typing can also be used for verification or sometimes even to identify of persons.

What to know before learning

Learning of touch typing without prior knowledge can be quite challenging. At the beginning we are often faster typing on the keyboard by the use of the hunt-and-peck method. In the long run it is better to invest time in the learning of touch typing, it brings better results.

Touch typing is learned gradually with training, but first we need to know the basics, which you'll get to know next.

Home row

Touch typing starts with the positioning of fingers on the keyboard, which is called the "home row" and the keys that we place our fingers on are called "home keys". The home keys are found in the middle of the keyboard, most equally distanced from other keys. The "home keys" consist from the keys: "asdfjkl;" (from left to right). The letters F and J have little bumps on them, so they can be easely located!

The fingers always flow from those eight keys to the other keys on the keyboard.

Proper body posture

Proper body posture improves typing results and reduces overall body strain.

Straight head

Relaxed shoulders

Elbows close to the body

Fingers in natural curved position

Feet flat on the floor

Legs should not be crossed

Additional information on the learning process

For the learning of touch typing is important: manual dexterity, coordination, fine motoric ability, the ability to temporary concentration on a specific task and usually for children the size of their fingers.

At the beginning we often pay more attention to the spelling of words, by which we use appropriate fingers to press the corresponding key.

For learning touch typing, it is necessary to quit any different typing habits (which presumably takes 12 hours of learning).

Typing on a laptop?
It is more challenging to type on a laptop than on a separate keyboard. Fingers at laptop are more elevated. The position of the keys are more compact, surface of the keypad itself is flatter.

How to train

For touch typing we use special applications which enable us to train and get feedback on our typing skill in the form of evaluation and error display. We train by retyping text content or by using special textual lections.

The room should be properly lit. The windows should be behind the computer screen and there should not be any glare from the light or sun.

When training we should have regular breaks which should be at least 10 minutes once each hour.

Cant manage to keep your eyes off keyboard?
Learning to touch type is like learning to swim; we cant learn it without jumping in the water or stop looking at the keyboard.

Expectations

Office, administrative work and secretarial jobs often require the ability to type at 60 words per minute or more. Some jobs also require accuracy of typing, which is usually above 90%.

The reading ability also affects typing. You can only focus 100% at 4 to 5 letters of each word.

More information

The limitation of typing are not the motorical skills but the cognitive ability.

The speed record at touch typing is 150wpm for 50 minutes long typing, while sometimes also 170wpm and in some moments even up to 212wpm.

There are different keyboard layouts such as Dvorak, but far the most popular is QWERTY.

Different keyboards dont offer significant typing advantages, at least for majority.

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Most common TopTyper Rank is Intermediate. Intermediate requires a typing speed of at least 20wpm and typing accuracy of at least 80%. The TopTyper Rank distribution is normal. For the statistic we only used results of at least 1 minute duration.

The tests were taken by 102+ different countries around the world.
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