Typing Connections 1

FREE Typing Web

Skills: learn keyboarding, basic, intermediate, and advanced

Object: Develop your typing skills, it will ask you to log in but you do not need to create an account to utilize this site. Click start typing and then click the red x to close the pop up window. Several levels available to work with.

Visit Typing Web

FREE Basic Keyboard Game (simple beginner game)

Skills: basic keyboarding

Object: to press the keys that are highlighted in red and time yourself

Visit Free Big Brown Bear Software Site

FREE Download Kids Typing Skills Program for Windows 95/98/2000/Me/NT/XP/Vista

Skills: Keyboarding

Object: KID'S TYPING SKILLS helps you master a skill needed in today's computer oriented world and the best part - it's FREE! KID'S TYPING SKILLS will help you learn keyboarding, or typing (as it was called when typewriters were the major method of putting words on paper). You can learn about the keyboard and which finger presses which key. Practice with keyboard drills, character drills, and word drills. Take timed tests to determine and improve your typing speed.

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FREE Typing Game-Martian City Defender (K through 12)

Skills: Keyboarding-Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced

Object: Save the Martian Colony from unidentified flying laser beams. Type the words or groups of letters below the laser before it reaches the colony buildings. Extra points for flying saucers! Good Luck!

Visit FreeTyingGame-Martian City Defender More games: http://www.freetypinggame.net/play.asp

Barracuda Typing Game - (Third Grade and up)

Skills: Improve your typing speed.

Object: Type the words that come across the screen as fast as you can.

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Alphabetic Rain (Beginning Keyboarding)

Skills: Keyboarding and knowing your letters and numbers.

Object: Letters and numbers fall like raindrops and you need to type them as fast as you can using the correct fingering.

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The Jibe Keyboarding site (Third and Up)

Skills: Keyboarding

Object: You are on the quest for 7 golden eggs. First, you must paint a ghost boat to sail across strange waters. Then, conquer a monster, and finally a golden egg is within reach.
HINT: Match three rectangles with the same letters/color vertically or horizontally. Strive to clear the stage to trigger change in number of letters per rectangle. There is an extra bonus for each change.

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Tux4kids-Tux Type Downloads (elementary)

Skills: Keyboarding

Object: Tux4Kids develops high-quality software for kids, with the goal of combining fun and learning into an irresistable package. The software is free: you can download it for use at home or onto hundreds of computers in a school. They support all major platforms, including Windows, Macintosh, and Linux/Unix. Programs are used by people around the globe, and they have been translated into dozens of different languages. As open-source software, these programs can be freely extended or customized, and they are supported by active communities of volunteer developers.
Whether you're a parent, a teacher, or a kid, give Tux4Kids software a try!

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TypeRacer (3rd on up)

Skills: Keyboarding increase WPM!

Object: You can create an account or skip it and be a guest to race 4 others. TypeRacer is the other stand-out typing test / competition. At the end of each race it show you where you placed relative to other players and also provides you with your WPM typing speed.

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Super Hyper Spider Typer! (elementary)

Skills: Keyboarding

Object: Fun game testing your typing skills to save the lizards from the spider!

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