Home Computing Weekly


Pitman Typing Tutor

Categories: Review: Software
Author: S.S.
Publisher: Pitman Publishing
Machine: BBC Model B

 
Published in Home Computing Weekly #94

Do you ever feel frustrated when typing in listings and wish you could type using all your fingers without mistakes? Pitman Typing may be the answer.

When the disc is booted, comprehensive instructions are printed. After you digest all of it, you can load in the main program to start learning how to type. You are given 12 options, each concentrates on just one aspect of typing. For example, the first concentrates on the home keys.

A picture of the keyboard is drawn and you have to press the key which lights up. You can't continue unless you press correctly. Several other exercises concentrate on a specific part of the keyboard in a similar fashion. After these, you should be able to feel your way around without looking. Then you go onto the exercises which are given your accuracy rating and typing speed.

Although this is rather expensive, it has been carefully designed and should prove to be useful to those determined to become better typists.

S.S.

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