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Type the letters quickly to stack or remove the cups.

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Take typing speed test, practice your touch typing skills, learn to type faster and with fewer errors with this free online typing tutor.

What Is Touch Typing?

Touch typing is the ability to use muscle memory to find keys fast, without using the sense of sight, and with all the available fingers, just like piano players do. It significantly improves typing speed and eliminates errors. Touch typing simply makes you more productive and it is a skill worth learning. However, many people engage in the bad habit of 'hunt-and-peck' typing, even those seasoned professionals with years and decades of computer experience. It is easy to understand, though, as touch typing requires dedicated practice to learn it well.

That is why we created Keybr.com, a free online typing tutorial, to give you the most advanced learning experience and let you develop your typing skills faster.

How Does This Typing Tutor Work?

There are several features in Keybr.com that set it apart from most of the typing practice software out there. In short, it employs statistics and smart algorithms to automatically generate typing lessons matching your skills. Lets discuss this in details.

First, it does not force you to repeat the same characters over and over again; that is simply slow, boring and contributes very little to your learning. For example, the words like ' jjf jjk jdd ... ' are very unnatural, hard to read and will slow down noticeably even experienced typists.

Instead, Keybr.com generates random, but readable and pronounceable words using the phonetic rules of your native language. These words look almost natural, and often they really are. Typing sensible text is much easier than repeating random letters, and it helps you to remember frequent key combinations. The latest point is very important. For example, it's almost impossible for the letter ' W' to follow the ' Z' in English, and you will never type this combination in Keybr.com. Instead, you will type more common words, such as " the," " that," " with," and so on. And soon you will learn how to type the " th " combo really fast.

Second, Keybr.com measures your keystroke dynamics and collects comprehensive typing statistics. For example, it measures your typing speed for each individual key, and uses this data to generate random words putting emphasis on the weakest key. The more troubles you have with a particular key, the more you will be typing it. It means, the generating algorithm will put that letter in every word in the next generated lesson. Your typing skills are re-evaluated after every completed lesson, and the next lesson will be adjusted accordingly.

Third, Keybr.com lets you introduce as few keys as possible to the lesson, adding more keys automatically when it decides that you are proficient at the current level. When you only start learning it generates lessons with words from a very small alphabet of the most frequent letters. When your typing speed for every key in that alphabet reaches certain threshold, the algorithm adds the next most frequent letter to the alphabet. And so on, until the next letter. This way you will learn the most frequent letters first, and the least frequent ones later.

Is It Really Effective?

We selected a few example profiles to show you how people advance in learning touch typing when using Keybr.com. These are real, anonymized user profiles. Hopefully they will inspire you to keep learning!

Example 1, from 30 to 70 WPM after 4 hours 20 minutes of practicing in the course of 15 days

Example 2, from 35 to 70 WPM after 2 hours and 20 minutes of practicing in the course of 12 days

Example 3, a decent jump from less than 20 to 40 WPM after 5 hours and 30 minutes of practicing in the course of 11 days

Example 4, after 2 hours and 10 minutes of practicing in the course of 11 days, typing speed stayed at ~70 WPM (which is already pretty high), but accuracy improved

Example 5, from 20 to 45 WPM after about 10 hours of practicing in the course of 22 day (yes, sometimes it takes longer)

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Take typing speed test, practice your touch typing skills, learn to type faster and with fewer errors with this free online typing tutor. Touch typing is the ability to use muscle memory to find keys fast, without using the sense of sight, and with all the available fingers, just like piano players do.

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ABCya! * Typing Rocket - Keyboarding Game

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Type as many letters as possible in 60 seconds in this fun keyboarding game for kids of all ages!

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Keyboarding Zoo is a fun and educational activity to help early elementary age students learn the keyboard.

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Keyboarding Zoo is a fun and educational activity to help early elementary age students learn the keyboard.

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FreeTypingGame.net - The Frogs are Off Their Diet, a Free Typing Game

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the frogs are off their diet, a free online keyboarding game

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http://www.keyingkids.com/numberPad.htm

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Printed keyboarding material for grades 5-6.
https://www.moneyinstructor.com/lesson/keyboardingintro.asp#LESSON_PRINTABLE_MATERIALS_-_WORKSHEETS

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Free Online Typing Speed Test and Typing Lessons

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Free Online Typing Speed Test and Typing Lessons

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http://www.keybr.com/#game

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http://www.typinggames.zone/

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http://www.novelgames.com/en/cups/

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http://www.freetypinggame.net/play3.asp

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http://tvokids.com/school-age/games/keyboard-climber

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z3c6tfr

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This game provides several exercises designed to improve kids touch-typing skills.
http://www.bigbrownbear.co.uk/keyboard/keys.swf

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https://www.todaysparent.com/family/fun-typing-games-for-kids/

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Free Typing Games From Kidztype. A Fun Way To Improve Your Typing & Keyboarding Skill.
http://www.kidztype.com/browse-typing-games.html

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Keyboarding Zoo is a fun and educational activity to help early elementary age students learn the keyboard.
http://www.abcya.com/keyboarding_practice.htm

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ABCYa Practice Typing Game
http://www.abcya.com/kids_typing_game.htm

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Free typing games for kids designed to help kids build their typing skills.
http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/keyboarding_games.html

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Turtle Diary presents free typing games that are especially designed to facilitate learning to type for kids of all ages.

https://www.turtlediary.com/games/typing-games.html

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The Adventures of Kara, Winston and The SMART Crew

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The Adventures of Kara, Winston and The SMART Crew

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Internet Safety Resources
http://www.childnet.com/resources/the-adventures-of-kara-winston-and-the-smart-crew

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http://pbskids.org/webonauts/

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Links provided will take you to grade specific lessons which have been created for Elementary Tech.
https://computerlabresources.wikispaces.com/Lesson+Plans

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These rules are aimed mostly at younger children, at oldest pre-teens. ... things online and teach them things about the Internet, computers and other technology.

http://www.safekids.com/kids-rules-for-online-safety/

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By acting as a resource, parents and guardians can help make the Internet a safer place for their families. As a parent or guardian, you should stay well-informed about current issues to understand what your children are experiencing on and off the Internet.

www.netsmartz.org/internetsafety

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Free Internet Safety for Kids tutorials. Students will learn Internet safety tips for keeping kids safe from online predators and cyberbullies.

https://www.gcflearnfree.org/internetsafetyforkids/

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Integration Help For Computer Lab Teachers

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Integration Help For Computer Lab Teachers

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A list of print and digital resources that aid in tech integration for computer lab teachers.
https://www.internet4classrooms.com/computer_lab_help.htm

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Computer Lab Favorites
(50 one stop learning activities that are 15-30 minutes in length
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https://www.internet4classrooms.com/computer_lab_help.htm
http://computerlabactivities.wikispaces.com/K+-+2nd+Activities
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/clf/index.htm
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/adventure/spanish5.htm
https://www.bcsberlin.org/
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/clf/tguidesitemap.htm

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Provided is a link to the pad that was shared with TA Labs during the beginning of the year meeting that was held on August 16th for review. https://padlet.com/cbisdtechieteacher/boyegenda

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Free interactive computer learning games http://www.e-learningforkids.org/computer-skills/

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https://www.youtube.com/user/ikeepsafeorg/playlists

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Computer lab lesson plans for grades K-5.

http://oakdome.com/k5/

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http://computerlabactivities.wikispaces.com/3rd+-+5th+Activities

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http://computerlabactivities.wikispaces.com/K+-+2nd+Activities

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Carnegie Cadets: The MySecureCyberspace Game is an interactive game designed for fourth and fifth graders that teaches Internet safety and computer security in a safe, fun setting. Note: PC or Macintosh accessibility only.  Does not work on Chromebooks.

http://www.carnegiecyberacademy.com/classroomMaterials.html

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Educate children about right and wrong online behavior and is partner with AT&T Internet Safety for Kids takes on the form of game play while teaching students about internet safety.
https://www.att.com/Common/images/safety/game.html

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Digital Citizenship is the process of guiding everyone to use technology appropriately and responsibly. In this course, you will learn proper digital communication, digital rights and responsibilities, digital security, digital etiquette, and digital law to ensure safety.

Web Overview: https://eduhero.net/product.php?id=109

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An interactive, fun, and effective way to teach and test the basics of digital citizenship to 3rd-5th grade. NOTE: Labs MUST create a teacher account prior to setup and add classes  due to this being a non-subscription (not managed by CBISD) based program. Student import files are available OR labs can enter students individually.  CSM DC is web-based and multi-platform compatible. Feel free to contact me if you need assistance.

https://www.digitalpassport.org/

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Fundamental Digital Citizenship and Safety Curriculum for Elementary. 

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Fundamental Digital Citizenship and Safety Curriculum for Elementary. 

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Labs are encouraged to reference materials shared during the beginning of the year meeting and implement Google's Be Internet Awesome virtual game to support learning. GBIA is web-based and multi-platform compatible.  NOTE:  SEE EMAIL REGARDING LESSON TIMELINE.

https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/

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Common Sense Media Digital Citizenship Scope and Sequence.

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Common Sense Media Digital Citizenship Scope and Sequence.

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CSM Units are the same as last year. CSM Digital Citizenship Scope and Sequence are unplugged (no tech needed) and plugged (tech needed) lessons. CSM is web-based and multi-platform compatible. Labs can use CSM SS at their discretion.

https://www.commonsense.org/education/scope-and-sequence