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• Navigation Tree: It displays the current keyboard layout, current course, section and lesson.
• Editing Panel: It is the area where you can edit the existing course options or selected lesson in the Navigation Tree.
• Text Analysis Table: It displays the number and percentage of words, characters, spaces and specific characters in
the lesson.
• Virtual Keyboard: It displays the highlighted characters of the selected lesson, using the touch typing method.
Some Common Shortcuts
Some of the commonly used shortcut keys are as follows:
Shortcut Key Use
F5 Start/Pause Current Lesson
F6 Select a course
Ctrl+W Show Properties Window
F8 Restart a Lesson
Ctrl+2 Show Statistics
Ctrl+O Show Options
F9 Show/Hide Virtual Keyboard
Subject: To see all the shortcut keys in Rapid Typing Tutor
Click on Options Shortcuts. These available shortcut keys can be customised, removed and new
keys can also be assigned as per your convenience.
CALCULATING TYPING SPEED
An average speed of 50 to 80 WPM is maintained by a professional typist which can be changed to 80 to 95 or above
depending on the category of the work done on a computer.
The Typing Speed can be measured with different accuracies:
Typing Speed Example
In Terms of
Gross Speed Net Speed Supposition Gross Speed Net Speed
WPM = (Words Net WPM = WPM A person typed 50 Gross Speed = Net Speed = 25 -
without errors - (Words with words per 2 mins. 50/2 (6/2)
Word + Words with errors / Time with errors in 6 => 25 WPM => 22 WPM
errors) / Time spent in minutes) words.
spent in minutes
CPM = (Characters Net CPM = CPM - A person typed Gross Speed = Net Speed = 125 -
without errors + (Characters with 250 characters 250/2 (30/2)
Characters Characters with errors / Time per 2 mins. with => 125 CPM => 110 CPM
errors) / Time spent in minutes) errors in 30
spent in minutes characters.
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