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'''KTouch''' is a program for learning touch typing. Every finger has its place on the keyboard with associated keys to press. Starting with only a few keys to remember you will advance through different training levels where additional keys are introduced. Because you no longer need to search for the keys on the keyboard you will be able to type quickly and accurately.
'''KTouch''' is a program to learn and practice touch typing. Every finger has its place on the keyboard with associated keys to press. Starting with only a few keys to remember you will advance through different training levels where additional keys are introduced. Because you no longer need to search for the keys on the keyboard you will be able to type quickly and accurately.




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* Support for many different training lectures
* Ships with dozens of courses spanning many different languages and keyboard layouts
* Support for many languages including language specific text fonts
* Powerful course and keyboard layout editor for user-created training material
* Comfortable lecture editor
* Comprehensive training statistics to track and analyze your learning progress
* Support for different keyboard layouts, with the ability to use user-defined layouts
* During training sessions comprehensive statistical informations are shown to help you analyze your progress
 
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'''KTouch''' comes with a number of pre-installed keyboard files. You can simply
select the keyboard from the list in the main menu that matches your own keyboard layout. If you can't find a matching keyboard layout, you can either port an old one or make one from scratch. '''KTouch''' includes a dialog to make it easy for you.
 
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If your keyboard layout is not in the <menuchoice>KTouch -> Settings -> Keyboard Layouts</menuchoice> list, it might have existed in early versions but have not been ported to the KDE SC 4.x version.
 
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[[KTouch/Port_Keyboard_Layout | Read how to port older keyboard layouts to the new .keyboard.xml version...]]


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* [http://docs.kde.org/development/en/kdeedu/ktouch/index.html KTouch Handbook]
* [http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdeedu/ktouch/index.html KTouch Handbook]


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Revision as of 21:25, 5 February 2013

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KTouch is a program for learning touch typing on a keyboard quickly and correctly.

It is part of the KDE Education Project.

Description

KTouch is a program to learn and practice touch typing. Every finger has its place on the keyboard with associated keys to press. Starting with only a few keys to remember you will advance through different training levels where additional keys are introduced. Because you no longer need to search for the keys on the keyboard you will be able to type quickly and accurately.



Features

  • Ships with dozens of courses spanning many different languages and keyboard layouts
  • Powerful course and keyboard layout editor for user-created training material
  • Comprehensive training statistics to track and analyze your learning progress

Documentation