Welcome to the Private Beta of a little web-game I wrote to help learn touch-typing on a western/English keyboard!

It's designed to work with a physical keyboard on a desktop or laptop.
(It might work on a phone/tablet if you've got a physical keyboard connected to it, but I've encountered problems in my tests -- see below)

In Practice Mode, choose the group/s of Letters you wish to study  (eg:   A ...B,C,D,E,    F ...G,H,I,J   etc.)  from the buttons on the left, and the game will queue-up Letters from those groups for you to test your skill.

Just type the key that corresponds with the Letter in the center of the screen!
If you get it wrong, you'll see what you typed to the left of the active Letter.




REMAPPING KEYS
Not all keyboards are the same, (and not all browsers interpret the same keyboard the same way)!

In PRACTICE MODE, If you know you typed the correct key and the system mis-interprets it three times in a row, you have the option to remap that Letter to that key!  (You can change this to 4x in a row under the Options menu.)

Key-Mappings are saved on most browsers by Unity's PlayerPerfs (cookies?) so they should persist between sessions.  :)
(If you get the "This app uses cookies" screen on subsequent runnings, your PlayerPrefs didn't get saved.)





GAME MODE
Once you've made sure that the Letters in your groups-of-choice are all correctly mapped to your keyboard in the browser you're using (see below), test your skill and best your previous high scores in GAME MODE!

You get three "lives".
You gain life for every correct keypress... but...
You loose life for every keypress you get wrong!
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Point Bonuses are awarded for difficultly level...
How quickly you answer... and...
For the number of Letter Groups you're working with.
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Challenge yourself with HARD MODE where every wrong-answer costs a life!





SOME BROWSERS LOOK AND WORK DIFFERENTLY
This game was built for desktop/laptop systems, but if you've got a physical keyboard connected to your phone/tablet, it might work there too!  Go ahead and experiment!  If it doesn't seem to be working well, try another browser!  :)

(...our tests so far...)
* The game runs fine on my PC in Chrome, Firefox and Edge....
* I've tested this on my Galaxy Tab and it looks great -- it runs great under Chrome, but choppily under Firefox.
* On my iPad, on Chrome it runs smoothly but doesn't look great and doesn't store PlayerPrefs.  Safari refuses to feed the game input from my bluetooth keyboard.
* Chrome on our old, test Macbook looked and worked great, but in Safari it didn't look good and didn't store mappings/scores. (The app didn' run at all in Firefox on our Macbook.)





Why is this app?
I wrote the Kana version of this app to help myself in my study of Japanese.
And after thinking about it for a while, it seemed that it wouldn't be too difficult to do a port for Western keyboard/alphabet.  

Thought it might be helpful for young and old alike who struggle with Touch-Typing... so, here 'tis!  :D




Why is it free?
This is an offshoot of something I made to help me on my own journey.
Typing well has become as important a skill in modern living as reading and writing.
I never had anything like this growing-up, but if I had it would have made learning to type well _sooooooo_ much easier.
I hope it'll be the help for you that I wish it'd been for me.

Pay it forward.




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I'm not fond of the real-life-MATRIX into which behavior tracking, analysis and manipulation has transformed the 'Net.


So...


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If you really want to do something in thanks...

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