Doorway Text Type

Doorway Text Type is a touch typing tutor is designed for visually impaired people. One of the priorities was to make it as clear as possible. It has been welcomed by teachers supporting learners with visual impairment. It has been praised for the clarity of the presentation, the colour options and the progression of the exercises.

It can be used by anyone wanting to learn to touch type.

There are some basic rules;

• Get into a comfortable position. with the keyboard placed centrally
• Locate the home keys. F and J have ridges on them to help you find them
• Do not look at your hands. All the information you need is on the screen. The letter to be pressed, the finger to use. If you 'cheat', and look at your hands, you are not touch typing. Do not look at your hands. If you look at your hands, you are practising a different skill. You will always need to look at your hands.
• Do not hurry. There is no advantage in going fast. It is accuracy that matters.
• Type at a steady rate. Do not speed up for the easy bits and slow down for the tricky parts. Try to type to a slow even beat.
• You need to score at least 90% on an exercise twice before going on to the next one. If you go on without mastering the previous one, it will just be too hard. Experience shows that  users who go on to be touch typists usually score above 94% on each exercise. 
• At the start, do not try to to type too much. A single exercise at one session is enough. Use it on a ‘little and often’ basis.
• Touch typing is a motor habit like riding abike. Once you have learnt it you can use it any time again in your life.
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