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This section helps you increase your typing speed and provides entertaining practice on words and number/symbol combinations. Designed to correspond to the lesson levels (1 through 8), the Game utilizes graphics and a game scenario to nudge your typing speed higher and higher. The practice material in the Game includes words and combinations used in the lessons.
When you select the module, the title screen for Touch Typing Tutor appears. You can press any key at this time to go on, or you can wait for the title sequence to end automatically.
Before beginning any session with the Touch Typing Tutor module, make sure that the '''ALPHA LOCK''' is in the up (off) position.
If you are learning to touch-type for the first time, begin with the LESSONS option. With the Touch Typing Tutor selection list displayed, press 1 for LESSONS. See the explanation beginning on page 10 covering the lessons; then work through Lesson 1-A, which introduces the "home" keys - the keys over which your fingers should be positioned while you are typing.
If the message "More practice is needed" appears when you havecompleted Lesson 1-A, press '''REDO ''' and repeat the lesson once. Whenyou complete Lesson 1-A successfully, you are ready to learn the"reach" keys - those which are not in the home position. Press'''PROC'D ''' to continue to Lesson 1-B. When you complete Lesson 1-B, Review 1 begins. In this section, youtype words that use the letters covered in Lessons 1-A and 1-B.When you successfully complete Review 1, you might enjoy tryingLevel 1 of the Game. Press '''BEGIN ''' to return to the Touch TypingTutor selection list, and then press '''3 ''' for the GAME. Read theinstructions; then select Level 1 and get ready to type! (See theexplanation for the Game on page 20.)
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