Type Fu = Kung Fu for Your Fingers: Keyboarding Resource

Does typing a paper or assignment take forever? Want to hone your typing skills to increase your words per minute? If you answered "YES" to either of those questions, you are in luck! There are great FREE keyboarding and typing programs available online.

I tested out lots of free typing resources and narrowed them down to two: Type Fu (think Kung Fu) and Typing Club. Type Fu and Typing Club are my top picks because they are FREE, user friendly, and give you feedback about your abilities. Both Typing Club and Type Fu are available as Chrome extensions for the Google Chrome Internet browser!


In this post I will discuss Type Fu. Check out the post about Typing Club here.

Type Fu
Type Fu is like Kung Fu (a study of skill) for your fingers! This FREE keyboarding program that helps you increase your typing speed by teaching you to not look at the keyboard.

Features:

• On-screen keyboard and fingers
• Audio notifications
• Speed, accuracy, and time meters
• Support for different keyboard layouts
• Statistic tracking with charts

Lessons:

• Letters (23 difficulty levels)
• Numbers (9 difficulty levels)
• Most popular words (9 difficulty levels)
• Over 250 quotes by famous people
• Over 250 proverbs  

This is a screen shot of the first level of letters where you work on j's and f's.

The guide at the bottom shows you what fingers you should be using to type on the keyboard. The letter in the passage, the finger you use to type the letter, and the letter key on the keyboard all show in blue.

The right column shows your speed, accuracy, and time. 

The images above the column to give a more detailed report of your speed and accuracy. You can also view which letters you typed correctly and incorrectly during the session and over time.

Type Fu also allows you to customize the settings. Type Fu is set up to automatically take you to the next level, which can be very addicting!

If you are looking to increase your typing speed, Type Fu is fun and easy to use program that can help you achieve your goal!

Also check out the Type Fu Google Chrome extension (FREE) and the Mac App ($4.99)

How will you use Type Fu to hone your keyboarding skills? Which features do you like?

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