Delighted customers say...

I learned more in using typeSmart for 2 hours than I did in a year of typing classes at school!

Tracey C. - Project Manager

You are really on to something. My keyboard skills have improved greatly since using eText typeSmart.

Jason A, Management Consultant

With [well-known typing tutor package], I often just got stuck there, frozen, because of a total mental block as to where the damn letter was! ...This has not happened once since I started using typeSmart.

Great to use a program that reinforces success.

Bethany A, Small Business Manager

It's deplorable that present typing programs do not use modern learning principles. I thoroughly support your eText project.

Stephanie B, Corporate Trainer

What a great innovation! I can now use all my fingers.

Elisha L, Graduate Student

Thank you. I have improved my keyboard skills by using typeSmart.

RS, Small Business Owner

It's great. It is so nice to have a typing course that rewards success and doesn't (expletives deleted) beep at you for making a mistake.

JM, Company Administrator

Many thanks for your assistance... I am already at 20 wpm. You might not think this is grand, but you should have seen what it was awhile ago.

Graham L.

It's funny but I find that I use typeSmart for short bursts and then the next time I use the keyboard I am so much better at it.

CC, Professional Writer

typeSmart is great. I am learning to use all fingers!

Edward S, Architect

Your typeSmart attracted me because it mentioned a new approach. I tried it. I have trained about 20 minutes then I was able to show others my dramatic improvement.

Doing it in a relaxed and creative way made the boring task of typing a good permanent exercise of body intelligence. Curiously, if I do a little effort not to look to keyboard I do type better.

Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor is the second most interesting program but it isn't innovative. (I tried the Dvorak keyboard - it didn't work). I tried also Stamina, Typing Master Pro, Letter Chase and others. None of them can be compared with yours, the most interesting and creative one.

C de MA, Doctor of Homeopathy, Brazil

Ever since you sent me the code to unlock the demo version of eText, I have been working away at eText, putting in nearly a half hour a day. I am, in fact, writing this note to you with all ten fingers, instead of my previous three.

I have worked up to a fairly clean 35 wpm. I expect to continue to work with eText until I am at about 60 or 70 wpm, since it seems like a reasonable goal.

TypeSmart is undoubtedly a wonderful program; thought and care have obviously been given to the pedagogy behind learning how to type. Thank you again and best wishes,

Fr. Gregory, OJN

I like how you teach skills, not drills.

Michael K, Company Training Manager

Why I've been impressed with TypeSmart... I've been a 'hunt and peck' typist for a very long time, and guess what? The focus has always been the space bar to find a key!

Having the software say what was typed seems to help as well. Another thing I'm impressed by is that while my total typing time (much to my surprise) has been less than ten minutes, I find that I'm looking down less than I was before.

I'm actually learning the keyboard; I have yet to have this experience with hours of using those other programs.

David. A., Head Information Systems

Your method is more logical and I now have learnt better habits.

Jack E, Engineer

Great step forward in keyboard and typing programs. Streets ahead of Mavis Beacon. That program is for kids whereas yours is for adults.

Bill H, Small Business Owner

Thank you for taking the time to send me the demo version ... I was very very imppressed.

George G.

The typing program is fantastic. I have done the first hour and the keyboard makes sense to me for the first time. I feel a real sense of relief and hope.

Jacque van S, Advertizing Executive

Other comments about the program:

Of the three that I have used, Typing Tutor, Mavis Beacon and yours, Typesmart is probably the very best of the three in developing exercises for the proficient touch typist to keep you up to speed.

The progress bar and the response given at the end never ever match up. The touch typists' progress may be way ahead of the runner and the message at the end of the session still comes up to say that the runner beat the typist by a good margin, a fair margin etc. Yet the progress bar at the top clearly shows that the runner is the one way behind. So there is a total disconnect between the progress bar and the final message at the end of the session.

The words per minute is way off. I know from both Mavis Beacon and Typing Tutor that my words per minute is around 60-65 WPM. Yet your program shows my WPM to be around 45. So I pulled an exercise into your program and timed it with a stop watch. And as I expected your WPM is totally wrong

Eddie R, Software Engineer, Sydney, Australia.

Our reply to the wpm issue:
This affects the proficient users more than the novices. Hopefully we can improve it for advanced uses in the next upgrade.

On the issue of WPM there is no internationally standard or agreed way of calculating it. The Australian standard is the only one we know of that defines this. It does seem to be convention that 5 is used to convert CPM to WPM as we have done. Perhaps that is why the Europeans use CPM (char per minute) to avoid this rubbery factor.

We do not know for certain that the programs you mention are using this factor. To be cynical, they could be using a lower figure to give more encouraging results. Using 4 for example would make a typeSmart 45 wpm equivalent to 56 wpm.

Also, our other assumption is that only correct characters are counted. As far as we know that traditional formulae are more forgiving on errors.