But for something that can “drill” you on letters, its decent and worth it. The games alone probably are not worth the £17/$22USD/€19 since there are just as good if not better things online today. But I plan to switch to Dvorak on the Model 01. I’ll likely use it when I get my Model 01 to drill and practice with since I never actually switched to Dvorak on my “normal” keyboard after giving up on the DataHand (I just did not have the finger dexterity needed). It can be a little hokey/corny in places, but nothing horrible. It’s reasonably priced and a decent program. The games can be limited so you only practice the letters you have “learned” already in the tutorial portion. It also has some simple practice games in it. And it starts using real words (rather than things like adad dada) as quickly as possible so you practice real bigrams and patterns. It reports speed and error rates, emphasizing you should concentrate on accuracy first, not speed. (At the time, there were not the online tutorials like there are today.) You can keep practicing the new letter (along with the previous ones) for as long as you want until you move on to the next letter. It was one of (if not the only) programs at the time that had lessons for Dvorak and not just Qwerty. I bought a copy years ago when I first wanted to learn Dvorak on my DataHand. It starts with home row letters and then moves on to other letters and punctuation. So a bit more useful if you are learning a new layout (or you want to learn to do “proper” touch typing if you are not currently). Basically you “learn” and practice letters one at a time. Since I’m waiting on my Model 01 (but it is looking like I’ll be in the group that ships this week ),I have not used anything yet…īut in the past I’ve used Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor. I remapped the palm buttons to space and backspace, and that’s working splendidly for me. Personally the thumb buttons don’t work well for me, as I have arthritic thumbs and so need to shift as much work as possible away from them. I wanted to change them right away, but was having trouble figuring out how to alter the keymaps so used them as is, and I’m glad I gave them a try. I recommend trying the weird (to me) placements of the inner row keys. I slowed myself down with layout changes, though. That’s about three weeks ago now, and I have returned pretty much to my former typing speed. Once I got through it I went cold turkey and put my Kinesis in a box in our household tech boneyard, and made myself learn to use the Model 01 full time. I am not personally much of a gamer, but I enjoyed it, and it made the transition to fluency much easier. Someone somewhere in these forums recommended it, and I’m super grateful! It is a fun little open world exploring game with some monsters and some puzzles. I’m curious what other folks did to learn the Keyboardio, and I expect a lot of folks are going to be climbing that hill right about now.
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