RapidTyping

Improve your typing skills with a new-generation typing tutor! RapidTyping will help you learn how to use your keyboard more efficiently in a few easy sessions for absolutely free. Children will learn by playing a fun game, while students and adults can choose pre-configured lessons or create their own training courses. RapidTyping teaches adults and kids, students and teachers, and offers advanced reporting and progress tracking for every student. Advanced statistics include 15 different parameters, such as words-per-minute, characters-per-minute and accuracy reports. RapidTyping features a simple and intuitive user interface painted with colors to make learning to type fun. The typing tutor offers many visual aids to help adults and kids learn the computer keyboard, and includes full course statistics in both tables and diagrams. Multiple user support makes RapidTyping a perfect tool for educational facilities such as schools and universities. Professional typists, teachers and writers will find the ability of RapidTyping to create their own courses tailored to each student truly invaluable. Custom lessons and courses allow designing your very own typing tutor tailored specifically to your needs. Whether it's a certain key, set of keys or a keyboard layout that you need to learn, a custom-made typing tutor is your best bet. RapidTyping provides a complete virtual keyboard with both hands moving over it to show the right typing position for each hand and finger. Highlighted zones for each finger help you learn placing your fingers properly a second nature in no time. For non-standard layout users, RapidTyping will automatically create a new virtual keyboard based on your chosen layout. You can learn typing on multiple keyboard layouts by quickly switching between them.

What is new in this release:

Current lesson

• When a user finishes the final lesson of the current course, the next course will start automatically.

• Moving students between groups. ("Drag-and-Drop" or "Ctrl+X" and "Ctrl+V" shortcuts)

• Added "Speed" and "Accuracy" markers on the diagram current item's label.
• Added "Shift" and "Ctrl" hot-keys for item selection on the lesson statistics diagram.

• Moving lessons between sections and courses.
• "Create new section" command added.
• "Properties" window has been deleted from the "Lesson editor".
• The "Save statistics of the incomplete lesson" has been moved from "At the close application" section into the "Lesson Duration" section. Also, this option is disabled when "Do not stop the lesson" is selected.
• The "Save all" menu command saves all courses for all keyboard layouts.

• The "Confirmation" message box appears if the user does not have right-access to the Student/Lesson folders.
• Check-box "Apply to all" has been added to the "Confirmation" window when existing groups, students or courses are inserted.
• More than 50 bugs have been fixed.

What is new in version 5.2:

Version 5.2:

• Rapid Typing is now also available as 64-bit Windows program
• User logout without closing application
• Teacher creates new student accounts with own lesson settings
• Speed and Accuracy diagrams can be displayed together or separately
• Lesson Goal is displayed on the Speed and Accuracy diagrams
• Result window and student diagrams are displayed without delay
• Using multi select to assign courses to a group
• Use native digits for numeric formatting defined by the system's regional settings
• The full support for the Right to Left languages
• Persian course for experienced students

What is new in version 5.1.647.121:

Version 5.1.647.121:

• Ergonomics interface design in the Windows 10 style
• Now, RapidTyping suggests the shortest way of typing the composite characters
• Application now launches faster over the local network in classrooms
• New French express-course for advanced users by Francois Goethals

What is new in version 5.0.108:

• Added the support of characters entered using the Alt+Num key combination.
• Updated the "Login" dialog window where the group/student name can be entered into a corresponding field or selected from a list. All of the entered data is validated.
• You can now select several groups and assign the courses to all of them.
• Fixed a number of bugs in the classroom, including an update to the current lesson on a students' machine if a teacher has deleted or modified the lesson or course with this lesson; the results are properly exported to PDF on Windows 10 systems and many other minor bugs.

What is new in version 5.0.106:

• Fixed bugs that occurred while working with touch-sensitive displays.
• Disabled the possibility to work with a virtual keyboard using a mouse on systems without a touch-sensitive display.
• Fixed a bug with the virtual AZERTY keyboard resetting to QWERTY during French lessons.
• Fixed minor bugs, including course renaming with a double click, changing the width of the student list window, etc.
• Added the Albanian UI language.

What is new in version 5.0.105:

• Installation on Linux-Wine improved.
• Compatibility with Windows 10 improved.
• French-Belgian courses added.
• Uzbek language added.
• the highlight of main menu item is fixed
• Show/Hide button on the Student List is added.