ATTACK22.ZIP 106625 01-26-95 Letter Attack 2.2 is an arcade-style typing | tutor. Words and letters flash across the | screen and must be typed correctly before | they reach the bottom of the screen. A | practice section is included to show correct | finger placement. (Eldon Martin) (Reg.Fee: $6) DATAPRO4.ZIP 141891 04-13-94 DataPro 4.0 hones your typing skills for data | processing types of applications. For | example, it times your entering of data into | a payroll type of application, automatically | advancing to each field, just as a program | would do. It also drills you on use of the | number pad for numeric input. This is an | excellent way to practice your data entry | skills or, if you are an employer, to test | applicants. Also included are a warm-up | program and a typing skill game. (Fred | Howard) (Reg.Fee: $22) FASTMONO.ZIP 285457 04-04-94 PC-FasType/Mono 1.4 is a typing tutor program | specifically designed for laptops, portables, | and systems with monochrome monitors. Network | support is provided, and an all-caps mode is | available for small children. Timed exercises | of up to 20 minutes can be run. (William J | Letendre) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $28) FASTYPE.ZIP 291535 04-04-94 PC Fastype/CGA 4.4 is a typing drill program | for beginning, intermediate and advanced | typists. It uses a graphics screen to display | a picture of a keyboard on the bottom half of | the screen. The key you should be hitting is | highlighted on the keyboard while the word or | sentence is displayed on the top half of the | screen. This is very handy for beginners who | might have trouble locating keys. (William J | Letendre) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $28) FASTYPEV.ZIP 297521 04-15-94 PC Fastype/VGA 1.1 is an outstanding typing | drill program for all levels of skill. The | program displays a 3-D image of the keyboard | and if you have trouble finding a letter, the | key will go up and down on the keyboard after | a reasonable amount of time. Our only | complaint is that if you are typing quickly | and miss a letter completely, instead of | counting it as one error, all letters that | you type after that letter are counted as | errors until you get back in sync again. | Otherwise, this is an excellent program which | we can highly recommend. Requires VGA, DOS | 3.3+, 512K RAM and a hard disk with at 800K | of space. (William J Letendre) (ASP) | (Reg.Fee: $28) FINGERS.ZIP 3177 04-29-23 Fingers lets you practice typing. (Robert | Bedford) (Reg.Fee: $5) KEYPAD.ZIP 16861 08-23-93 Keypad drills you on touch typing on the | numeric keypad. (Nathan Alan King) (Reg.Fee: | $8) LRN2TYPE.ZIP 74918 04-13-94 Lrn2Type and Read-In are typing training | programs for the beginning and intermediate | touch typist. Lrn2Type helps the beginning | typist learn character locations. Read-In is | for the typist who already has some touch | typing experience. (Clement S. Pepper) | (Reg.Fee: $15) NUMPAD.ZIP 102561 04-13-94 NumPad 1.2 allows you to practice using the | numeric keypad. It contains an on-screen | numeric keypad, a set of random numbers to | type, and a game in which you must type | falling numbers before they strike buildings | and destroy them. (Fred Howard) (Reg.Fee: $10) PC_TOUCH.ZIP 65518 04-04-94 PC-Touch is a touch typing practice program. | Also included is LETTERFALL which is a typing | tutor program. (Reg.Fee: $?) PCKEY.ZIP 79419 05-23-94 PcKey 1.01 is a typing tutor with text or | script files that are read from disk and | executed like a program. You can create your | own files and set your own level of | difficulty. (Andrew Sprott) (Reg.Fee: $15 | pound) QUICTYP.ZIP 51893 06-04-90 Quictype 2.01 is for polishing your touch | typing skills. The graphical interface, in | which you must type a sentence as it moves | down the screen, and before it reaches the | bottom, adds a nice flair to the program. | Features include a warm-up screen with | graphical keyboard display and a separate "no | pressure" practice display with on-screen | keyboard. You can select different practice | files from the game play menu. There are | practice files, with tutorial information on | typing technique. On completion of a practice | session, it reports your typing speed and | which letters you missed the most. You can | input your own text files for typing practice | or use what comes with the program. (Matthew | Ratcliff) (Reg.Fee: $5) SKLTRONC.ZIP 114589 02-23-95 Skill-Tronics contains three keyboard skill | building games. They were designed for | beginning-level computer students who have | little previous experience with a computer or | even a typewriter keyboard. (Stephen C. | Grubb) (Reg.Fee: $0) TENKEYER.ZIP 183755 03-28-92 Tenkeyer trains and drills you on using the | numeric keypad, as well as the top row of | numbers on the keyboard. This skill is useful | in data entry, accounting, using cash | registers, etc. (Ersoft, Inc.) (Reg.Fee: | $20-50) TENTUTR.ZIP 30808 07-04-91 Tenkey Tutor is an excellent excercise to | increase your proficiency in 10-key data | entry. There is a basic drill and a sample | data entry screen for which your entry speed | can be rated. (The authors are no longer at | the address listed in the documentation.) | (Reg.Fee: $6) TME.ZIP 64222 03-13-95 Typing Made Easy 1.0 is a complete touch | typing tutor. It can analyze a users skills | and create tailored typing drills | accordingly. The program teaches the | keyboard, provides drills and maintains | statistics and progress reports. It uses | graphics to introduce and reinforce finger | positioning, exercises and drills including | full paragraph formats, a typing game to | provide a break from drills, and an | administrative module for using the course in | the classroom. (QED Information Sciences, | Inc.) (Reg.Fee: $25) TTT.ZIP 50639 04-04-94 Touch Typing Tutor offers three different | modes of operation. The Teach Mode has eight | graduated lessons and adapts itself | automatically to the user's skill level. | Speed Mode is designed for professional | typists and secretarial agencies to measure a | typist's speed. Game Mode was added because | all the commercial typing tutors seem to have | one. Five skill levels. The game also adapts | itself to the typist's skill, forcing the | user to type faster and faster. Other | features include a mouse interface, tutorial | statistics, lesson threshold speed and the | ability to record mistakes in tutorial and | speed tests. (David P. Gray) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: | $20) TYPECLAS.ZIP 105312 04-08-94 Typing Test/Classroom allows you to set up a | variety of typing drills and tests based on a | preset time interval or the length of the | typed document. (Viktor Khalfon's | Instructional) (Reg.Fee: $12) TYPEEN54.ZIP 86850 01-19-95 Typemate 5.40 is a typing tutor for the | English, French and Dutch languages. It | teaches finger positions, words, sentences, | capitals, numbers and six lessons in which | the number of keys for touch typing is | gradually increased. (Martijn Y. De Deugd) | (Reg.Fee: $25) TYPEGAME.ZIP 145294 10-25-93 Type Games 3.0 is an Olympic typing practice | game. A phrase is displayed on the screen, | then you must type the phrase in an allotted | amount of time, or your opponent wins the | point. There are three levels of phrase | difficulty, and 100 selectable speeds. The | Olympic theme to this game is fun, including | the playing of the winning country's national | anthem. You can add your own phrases. (Alan | C. Elliott) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $19) TYPETIM.ZIP 11465 06-22-89 TypeTim has two parts: a test of typing | speed and a practice drill. We found the | program to be simple, but effective. (Akber | A. Choudhry) (Reg.Fee: $10) TYPETMR.ZIP 22389 02-26-92 TypeTimer 1.0b is a 25K TSR that turns your | text based word processor or editor into a | typing test. It counts keystrokes for a | specified period of time and reports | statistics. This program does NOT support a | graphics oriented or Windows editor. (KIS | Systems) (Reg.Fee: $10-$23) TYPETREK.ZIP 368754 08-09-94 Type Trek 2.0 is a typing tutor in a | space-trek game format. It introduces the | keys on the keyboard, starting with the home | row keys, and adding more keys until the | keyboard is mastered. Controlled drills are | provided by typing words that fire phasers | and photon torpedoes, move the Enterprise, | dock and refuel, and more. Words-per-minute | estimates are displayed as you progress | through each game. NEW: There are three | races of aliens with whom players can | converse. Players can access the ship's | computer, go down into the ships interior for | repairs and scroll the spacescape through the | ship's view-port. (Joe Kretschmer) (ASP) | (Reg.Fee: $20)