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BBC Typing School

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A good resource addressed to younger people and part of the BBC’s Schools programming.

BBC Computer Tutor

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United Kingdom
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Computer Tutor from the BBC website trains you on both mouse and keyboard and, to make things more fun, it’s set in 'Game Show World', a theme park about TV game shows.

Alison Touch Typing Training

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A free training course but you must register to use it. ALISON* claims to be the world's leading free online learning resource for basic and essential workplace skills and all courses are accessible for free to individual learners.  Read more

UK.Gov Online Courses

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The learner needs to register to use these basic free online courses. Lots available, including online shopping, using digital camera etc. Key typing into the search box to access keyboard skills.

Typing Tutor

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Claims that you can type 10 times faster touch typing than using two fingers. A free trial and then $7 (under £5) for the course, which you can instal on your computer or log into on an online account.

Type Online

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A good basic free tutorial once you understand how to start the exercises.

Analytical Eye Technologies

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Analytical Eye Technologies’ provides free zip files with their typing course to download. Beginners may need help downloading files. Has had over 100,000 downloads in just a year.

Typing Soft

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United States
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Another typing tutor which also offers an alternative approach, thinking about avoiding repetitive strain injury, which some may find better.

Also has an extensive American.list of freeware and shareware some of which has to be paid for:

http://typingsoft.com/all_typing_tutors.htm

Sense-Lang

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An excellent course - easy to get started and learn to type quickly.

Power Typing

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Uses a traditional approach to develop skills.

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15 April 2019 - What's new

April 2019
  • ‘I'm a great believer in turning up still. No forgiving yourself because you are tired. I try to get there before 10, not too early. On those magical writing days you forget you exist and you surface an hour later and you have 400 words you were not expecting to write.
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'It's a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels is to experience those four and a half hours after you write the final word.'

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'Turning up'

18 April 2019

‘I'm a great believer in turning up still. No forgiving yourself because you are tired. I try to get there before 10, not too early. On those magical writing days you forget you exist and you surface an hour later and you have 400 words you were not expecting to write. But turning up is certainly the first condition. Work until lunchtime, listen to World at One, have a sandwich. Walk the dog.  Read more