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- Dave Tutelman - August 1988
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- "TYPEDRILL" is a program to increase the speed and accuracy of
- your typing. It presents you with letters to type, and monitors
- how quickly and accurately you type them. It gives you running
- totals of your progress, and can give more detailed statistics if
- requested with the STATS function key.
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- You can choose between two ways of using the program:
- (1) The program presents single random letters (with several
- levels of difficulty).
- (2) The program presents lines from a text file of your
- choice.
- You will be prompted for your choice.
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- At any time during your use of the program, you can request to
- see how well you are doing by hitting the function key labelled
- "STATS". This will display the statistics of your accuracy and
- speed, both in summary form ("batting average" and average speed)
- and in a graph of errors and speed by individual key. The
- horizontal line across the middle of the graphs is your average
- level.
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- The files in the archive are:
- README This file.
- COPYRITE Rules for copying and distribution.
- TYPDRILL.EXE The program itself.
- TYPDRILL.PAS The Turbo Pascal version of the program.
- SCREENIO.PAS Utilities for displaying function keys.
- BORING.TXT A sample exercise file.
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- The program was originally written in Turbo Pascal 1.0. Version
- 1.1 is a port to Turbo Pascal 4.0. The Pascal source is included
- in the archive.
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- Although TYPEDRILL is free, it is _n_o_t public domain. It is
- copyrighted by Dave Tutelman, who reserves all right to it.
- Please consult the copyright notice included in the archive
- before passing copies along to others. The rules are pretty open,
- but there are rules.
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- And please send me any comments about the program, favorable or
- otherwise. Thanks.
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- Dave Tutelman
- 16 Tilton Drive
- Wayside, NJ 07712
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- (201) 922 - 9576
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- Touch typing is based on keeping your fingers on the "home keys"
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- A S D F J K L ;
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- moving the proper finger to the desired key, hitting that key,
- and returning to "home". To learn this skill, you must first
- drill on JUST the home keys, then add a few keys at a time. This
- program provides a graded progression, starting with home keys
- and increasing your key "vocabulary" gradually. You can take
- advantage of this progression in either the "random" or the
- "file" mode.
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- RANDOM option: There are six levels of difficulty:
- 1. Home keys only.
- 2. Full home row.
- 3. Home row and row above it.
- 4. Home row and row below it.
- 5. Home row and rows above and below.
- 6. Same as [5], but with "shift" key as well.
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- FILES option: There is a "BORING.TXT" file included in the
- distribution, to show you how a typing drill can be formulated.
- However, you ought to create your own set of drill files, perhaps
- with the aid of a typing textbook. (That's what I did as drill
- work for my kids. I did not include those files because doing so
- would be a violation of the textbook's copyright.) The list below
- is a suggestion of how to proceed in case you decide to make up
- your own drills.
- BORING0.TXT. Home keys only.
- BORING1.TXT. Home keys and E, I.
- BORING2.TXT. Add R, U.
- BORING3.TXT. Add T, Y, G, H.
- BORING4.TXT. Add Q, W, O, P.
- BORING5.TXT. Add V, B, N, M.
- BORING6.TXT. Add Z, X, C, "," and ".".
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- I suggest you also practice on files like the ones you use a lot.
- For instance, if you do a lot of PASCAL programming, practice
- TYPEDRILL on files that are PASCAL programs.
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- 1.0 6/85
- First "release" for family and a couple of friends.
- Also posted to USENET in 1987.
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- Ported to Turbo Pascal 4.0.
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