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TypingWeb Offers Free Typing Lessons [Keyboards]

Whether you’re an able but slow touch typist, or you never graduated beyond hunting and pecking, TypingWeb is a free and easy to use online typing tutor that will help you hone your keyboard chops.

There is no registration necessary, you can dive right in and try out the basic lessons. Registering for an account lets you save your progress and other statistics. Along with a clean and easy to use interface, what sets TypingWeb apart from other free typing tutors is the ability to change the language and keyboard layout. Want to learn Dvorak without tearing your current keyboard apart? Learning to type on a keyboard other than an English QWERTY layout? Swap out the keyboard in the settings section.

TypingWeb is structured to take you from the home row all the way to efficiently using infrequent keys and key combination. There are also actually enjoyable typing games, unlike the lame typing games you may recall from grade school typing tutors. TypingWeb is free, but if you want to get rid of the ads, you can pay a one-time $9.99 fee to turn TypingWeb ad-free. Thanks Kratos!





Stop iPhone Auto-Correct with a “Z” [IPhone]

Writing an email on your iPhone or iPod touch with a lot of jargon? Tapping out a text in another language? Here’s how you can prevent the overbearing auto-correct feature from slowing you down.

A bilingual reader of our Aussie cousin, Lifehacker Australia, found that by typing out a "z," then touching and dragging to back up the cursor behind it, he could write as far outside the constraints of his native land's language as he wanted. Typing behind the Z leaves auto-correct unable to guess what word you could possibly be forming—"Restaurantz?" it asks, with a resigned shrug—so it leaves you alone. Works on any iPhone/touch app that features spelling correction, actually. You could, of course, just turn off Auto-Correction in the Settings/General/Keyboard menu, but this method provides a quick tweak that leaves the finger-waving for the real typos.






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