Typing Tips

Follow these simple rules:

• Place your hands on the keyboard appropriately. The left forefinger should point to the key ‘F’, and the right to the ‘J’. You can feel the bumps at the bottom these keys.
• Try not to look at the keyboard, look at the screen only. Use virtual keyboard to find the proper key if you are stuck.
• If your typing speed is notable slow, start with the simplest level using random words composed of the letters from the Caps Lock row only.
• Do not hurry, try to develop high accuracy first, then improve your typing speed.
• It may require a week or two to get to the speed of ~50 words per minutes if you practice 30–60 minutes every day, get used to it.

Using keybr.com

When keybr.com loads you will be presented with the typing tutor. Initially it is paused. Click on the pause button in the middle of the screen to start typing.

Game Screen

At the top of the screen you will see the board with the text to type out. Letters will be painted in black if you type them correctly, or in dark red if you make a typo an a key. You can skip the current phrase by clicking on the right arrow or you can go to the previous phrase by clicking on the left arrow. To highlight letters with errors click on the red circle button.

At the bottom of the screen you see the virtual keyboard. In light green color it highlights the next key to type, and if you make mistakes it will highlight them too in red.

With the four control buttons you can:

• Change language and keyboard layout
• Change text options
• Show most frequent and most problematic keys on the virtual keyboard
• Show typing speed progress chart

Language and Keyboard Layout Settings

Keybr supports several non-English languages, namely German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Russian. When you switch to a different language the random words generator will use phonetic rules of that language to generate pronounceable words.

Some languages provide more than one default keyboard layout. For example, for English language there are four layouts available: United States, United States — Dvorak, United States — Colemak and United Kingdom. So you can learn some esoteric layouts too.

Text Settings

Here you can customize the text to type out. You can choose from:

• Random words
• Custom text
• Imported web site or blog

Random words are generated by computer using phonetic rules of your language. You can choose from three levels. Each level uses different number of letters to generate random words, so can you introduce as few keys as possible to the lesson, adding more keys later when you feel that you are comfortable and fast enough on the current level. When you start with the keys from the Caps Lock row you will learn typing using few simple words. Then you can add keys form the Tab row, and then from the Shift row, and you will eventually end up typing real text. This is a good way to start learning touch typing.

If you would like to get capital letters or punctuation, you can provide your out text to type out. Switch to custom text tab, paste any piece of text into the text box.

Finally, you can import content from a web site or blog. Just provide URL of your favorite web site, and keybr will fetch its contents for you to type out. Please prefer simple web sites with minimal level of graphics and animations, where plain text content prevails, otherwise you may get blank screen.

Typing Speed Chart

The chart displays progress of your learning day by day. Dark blue bars show average typing speed and light blue bars show maximal typing speed for a day in words per minute, purple bars show average error count.

Use left and right arrow buttons at the bottoms to scroll bars.

Just click anywhere on the chart to close it.