Getting Started

KeyBlaze Typing Tutor

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KeyBlaze Typing Tutor takes you through a series of lessons, practice exercises and tests designed to increase your typing speed and accuracy. The course flow is automatic - you will be guided through the course by a navigation dialog. You may at any time, however, manually select an lesson by clicking the Keyboard toolbar button or selecting from the lesson menu. When you complete a manually selected lesson, your lessons will be resumed at the point in the course where you left off.

While the typing lessons can be attempted in any order, for best results it is recommended that you complete them in the order as presented. In general, use these steps:

  1. Read about health and safety to avoid fatigue, discomfort and injury.

  2. Read the overview of touch-typing basics to learn about how to touch-type.

  3. Work through the lessons to learn where all the keys are positioned and which fingers are used for each.

  4. Every so often use a practice exercise to build up your typing speed by doing drills that focus on particular weaknesses, or by practicing whole paragraphs of text.

  5. Occasionally take a speed test to find out your typing speed during a fixed-time test.

KeyBlaze Startup Wizard

The KeyBlaze Startup Wizard guides you through a simple configuration of KeyBlaze.
When KeyBlaze first starts, the wizard assumes you are a first time user and will do the following:

  1. You will be asked to select a User Mode from the drop menu. This will help KeyBlaze prominently display the types of exercises appropriate to your level.
  2. You are asked if you would like to take an initial typing speed test.

    • You can select "Yes, let's test my speed." KeyBlaze will take you to an initial typing skill evaluation.
    • Or, you can select "No thanks. Take me straight to the lessons." KeyBlaze will then initiate the typing course.

  3. If you elected to take a skill test, the wizard will reappear so you can adjust your Goal WPM.

    You can adjust the spinner control to the WPM value you want as your goal WPM. The default value is 10% higher than you scored on the initial skill test.

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