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DESCRIPTION
aTypeTrainer4Mac is a multilingual typing tutor for Mac OS X. It is an advanced version of TypeTrainer4Mac. All the system keyboard layouts (but not input methods!) as well as a wide variety of non-system keyboard layouts (i.e. Dvorak, Colemak or custom layouts being built using Ukelele) are completely or partially supported.
You have to type a mixed-string of random characters. You can customize a character set at each of the 30 levels, and thus, you can control the learning process. You can also import texts from TextEdit, from Mail or from your web browser. Each session provides a run log in RTFD format. By default, you will find it on your desktop. In the Preferences, you can adjust a host of settings to make your typing exercises to your liking.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.1.1:
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Thai support is improved and optimized for Ayuthaya font. To take advantage of the optimization, you should have this font installed and active on your Mac
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the run log in HTML format will no more generated by default
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4. or later.
aTypeTrainer4Mac is patially not compatible with Jack server and WindowShade X. If you want aTypeTrainer4Mac to work properly, you should deactivate these apps when running aTypeTrainer4Mac.
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| aTypeTrainer4Mac User Reviews (29 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Dec 15 2008 |
MACSAILOR Great app. Hopefully I'll finally (during next year?) be able to type faster with all my fingers on my MacBook Pro.
(Version 2.1) | |
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| Dec 9 2008 |
GOSPEL9 Thanks for the great app! Many many thanks !
(Version 2.0.3) | |
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 | Dec 7 2008 |
DR.S. I am an oldster, and yet I would like to learn touch typing. Since my last comment here about a year ago aTypeTrainer4Mac went from version 1.3 to 2.0.3, steadily integrating new and useful features. In this time, I went from hunt-and-peck typing to touch typing with 100 % accuracy at an actual speed of 20 words per minute. I won't be able to participate successfully at a typing contest, but I think that the daily typing exercises help to keep my fingers and my brains in a fairly good shape...
(Version 2.0.3) | |
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| Nov 26 2008 |
THE LYON The system is very good, especially the option to choose the words I want to practice. I´m having a great experience with this app. I would like to see other option like words per minute. I think that an explanation of the position of the fingers will be very usefull for the first time user. Thanks for this good app. | |
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| Nov 25 2008 |
SUNFALL In my last comment, I somehow ended up with a frown and a minus one when I meant to put smiles.
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| Nov 25 2008 |
SUNFALL I've been using this typing program for quite a while. I like the fact that I can import RTF files, and type from Web pages. This program has helped me improve my typing speed from 10 wpm a few months ago, to 24 wpm now. Thank you.
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| Oct 22 2008 |
RORO01 I'm not sure. I don't think an application is necessary. It is possible to learn touch typing online. Go to: http://www.sense-lang.org/typing/
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 | Oct 23 2008 |
VALENTIN VASSILEVSKI I am sure, the application is not necessary. Go to http://typingsoft.com/all_typing_tutors.htm
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| Oct 31 2008 |
ALABEMOS I suppose if you have continuous internet service, you can learn online, but especially in the schools, we don't necessarily want a child to be online unsupervised, and in my part of the world, the school does not have internet access. This program is ideal for our school for those reasons.
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| Nov 23 2008 |
RORO01 A very valid point. I totally agree with you.
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| Nov 24 2008 |
VALENTIN VASSILEVSKI the other valid point could be the following: the typing tutor, that you mean, supports "only" 12 languages as I see; it is not few, but aTypeTrainer supports much much more languages and layouts i.e. Afgan, Armenian, Brazilian. Bulgarian, Belorussian, Canadian, Colemak, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Icelandic, Kazakh, Latvian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Thai, Ukrainian AND! endless variety of self made layouts made using layouts editor Ukelele
(Version 2.0) | |
| Oct 15 2008 |
PAOLO.DONA I've been using many typing tutors on the past months, but this one is very slick and integrates seamlessly with my mac. One cool things you can do is load a text file in your browser and then link it to the software. This way I manage to practice using complex source code files. That's a thing I couldn't do properly with other tools. Good job Valentin!
(Version 1.4.1) | |
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| Sep 24 2008 |
LOVEMYMACS I have used as many online and software programs as I could find on google or discover through forums. I am learning to type dvorak after years of thinking about it but not knowing how to proceed. So I'm getting faster and faster but I was faced with a growing problem. Every program or website I have used has broken the learning process into the same basic steps: home row first, then they added additional keys in layers to all of the previous layers. Here's the problem - I got faster and faster at the home row, slightly less fast at the next level and so on until my skills were weakest at the last keys added and I got the least consistent practice at those. So - along comes this miracle of a program. Miracle or obvious? I'm not really sure. I realize at this point it's either this feature or years of practice. With this program I'm offered the usual sequence that others use - I suppose it makes sense to do it that way - but this one adds something I've been really, really hoping to find. It lets me select which keys to practice if I want to. I can't thank this guy enough for this feature. Before I found it I was typing at about 60 words per minute on the home row, 40 with the next closest keys added in, thirty with the bulk of the keys, but 26 with everything added in. And this just wasn't changing fast enough for me because those last keys - although not as common, were messing up everything else when I was trying to really type. I'm trying to get really fast at this - I'm a keyboard musician and I want to make typing easier on my hands - Dvorak is everything I thought it would be in terms of ergonomics, but I don't want to take forever to get fully fluent. Anyway - if you've read this far - this feature is why I made a donation and am so enthusiastic. As a keyboard player - when something is particularly difficult we isolate it and practice it. We don't just keep playing the whole piece over and over again hoping for the best. Read the rest of the review for all of the rest of the features. But this feature sets this program above everyone else if you're looking for real mastery.
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| Jun 22 2008 |
BEHNAM Touch typing may be the best way of typing. But it is the only way for those who want to use their Mac to type in a foreign language. In that sense, aTypeTrainer4Mac exceeds the expectations and with the ability to import rtf text files, it is amazingly adaptable to any learning needs, even for complex scripts. It is already a very good tool, it can only get better!
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