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Typing Tournament

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Educational Content

Typing Tournament is designed for all ages and stages – the whole family can learn to touch type! Users can start exactly where they need to and progress at their own pace (whether novice, typing whiz or someone whose skills are just a little rusty!)

Go all the way from beginner to fully-fledged typist, or take up where you left off last time you tried to master the keyboard.

It's a great way for parents to tutor kids and a valuable tool for busy teachers!

Typing Activities

Activities target the set of Focus Keys for each location:

A Lesson

Learning to type can seem like hard work. The lessons in Tournament Typing are kept very simple: step-by-step pictures and animations, with minimal reading. Only four new keys are introduced each lesson. Kids progress at their own pace so they can skip ahead or slow down as they need.

Three Drills

The 3 styles of typing drill focus on keys introduced in the lesson and revising keys already mastered.

Drill 1 is a single line of content that you must copy by typing in the space below; Drill 2 has 4 lines of content also typed below and Drill 3 is 10 lines typed directly over the given content.

Three Games

The perfect practise ground for fun learning of Focus Keys. If you can reach the Target Score for the game, you are ready to try the Test to complete that location! Click here to see images.

The Test

Once players have taken the lesson, drilled the drills, and played the games they can take the test for that environment. If they reach their speed and accuracy goals, they progress to the next landmark on the map. If not, they simply continue to practise the drills and games and try again later. After completion of each test, players receive a certificate of achievement to applaud their chivalry!

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For Teaching

Typing Tournament is a high-quality integrated touch typing tool for home and school! Here's how:

Typing Tournament Instructional Rationale (Download pdf)
Advanced Instructional Framework: Users cover the keyboard not once but twice. After a conventional Home Row progression, letters are combined in vertical keypaths to reinforce keyboard familiarity.
All components relate directly to material taught: In Typing Tournament games are a key part of the instruction cycle. All exercises, drills and games use content specifically linked to accompanying lessons.
Multiple progressions framework: With this unique model students can keep advancing, even when complexity increases. Reset goals while working on new skills rather than slipping behind, getting bored or giving up.
Substantial content: Students type from meaningful, informative and entertaining content.
Viewing Progress: Typing progress may be viewed for each environment. Along with overall speed and accuracy, a keyboard layout shows keys mastered and 'in progress', each with a percentage accuracy, so players can see problem keys and choose appropriate remedial drills and games.
Lesson Scope and Sequence: Each Lesson introduces a new set of Focus Keys. An animated demonstration of the location and fingering of the new keys is followed by an interactive exercise. Lesson Exercises use only the Focus Keys, while Drills, Games and Tests, though prioritising the Focus Keys, integrate them with previously learned material in realistic text-type environments.
Focus Keys: The Focus Keys of the 16 Lessons are as follows:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

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9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

b g t 5 v f r 4 n h y 6 m j u 7 c d e 3 , k i 8 x s w 2 l o 9 p0