Azabat Advanced Touch-Typing Tutor
This programme begins where the original typing tutor ends. You should already know where the keys are and want more practice to build up your speed.
The Azabat Advanced Touch-Typing Tutor has 5 sections:-
Stage 1: letters only
In this section you use the 26 letter keys. It is divided into five parts, which are called Practice, Exercise, Test, Exam and Remedial. You can remember this by the handy acronym P.E.T.E.R.
Stage 2: capitals and punctuation
This works like stage 1 except it mixes capitals and lower-case letters as well as numbers and punctuation. It uses the same 5 parts but is obviously much more difficult. In the exams you are asked to type short sentences, which are well-known proverbs, including capitals and punctuation.
Stage 3: shortcut keys and combinations
This section concentrates on popular shortcut keys and the additional keys, such as function and navigation keys. It follows the Practice, Exercise and Test formats mentioned above and covers the most common shortcuts and combinations, such as ctrl-C, alt-tab, alt-esc.
Stage 4: introduction to Braille
In this section you use six keys on the home row to represent the dots of a Braille cell. The letters F, D and S represent dots 1, 2 and 3 respectively while dots 4, 5 and 6 are the letters H, J and K. You can press the keys in any order but you should release them together to indicate the character is finished. This covers Grade 1 Braille, including some of the punctuation, and follows the same format as stages 1 and 2 above.
Please note: Some keyboards do not allow you hold down multiple keys and are not suitable for use with Braille-type input. To check whether your keyboard will work, go into your word-processor and press the letters S, D, F, J, K and L one at a time but do not release them until you've pressed all 6 keys. If all the letters register then the keyboard has "six-key rollover" and should work fine. If only 3 or 4 of the keys register it will not work with that keyboard. The problem is the keyboard, not the operating system, and plugging in a different keyboard with "six-key rollover" is the only solution.
Stage 5: spelling tests
There are 3 types of spelling test:-
Each test has 10 questions and you receive feedback both during the test and at the end.
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