Until this morning, I only used up to 4 fingers when typing on the computer. Then I installed KTouch : a program to learn how to touch-type. After training a couple of hours, I’m able to use all my fingers to type… and it’s so great! Why did I wait so long to learn it!!!

Using KTouch is simple : once installed, fire it up, and select your keyboard layout. Then select a default lecture, and start a new training session. The default color theme colors the key by finger, but you can change it. You can also configure KTouch so that it automatically changes the difficulty level in accordance with your results : the limits (in character per second and error rate) to increase or decrease the level are adjustable.

It’s a good tool to learn typing and train to increase your typing speed (I must be around the 20 words per minute, so I still have to train a lot!!!). Actually, I’m typing faster with only 2 fingers, but I’m sure it will be the other way around within a couple of weeks ;-).