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Why our touch typing courses focus on quality
At Type IT! It’s important for our tutors to be able to give genuine, detailed and valuable feedback to their students each week. This is delivered by email to the parent or adult taking the course. For this reason we limit the number of students each tutor looks...
Touch Typing is the perfect gift this Christmas
If you’re stuck for present ideas this Christmas, why not give someone the gift of touch typing! Our 12 week remote course is fully tutor supported with weekly check-ins by email every week with one of our amazing tutors. Each course voucher costs £195.00 and you can...
Touch typing for adults
Review from an adult touch typing learner You really are never too old to learn to touch type. Just last week I was talking to a group of accountants and solicitors at a networking event. Getting on to the subject of my job, they all went on to tell me how they type...
Learning to touch type fast!
Is it really possible to type over 100 words per minute? Yes, it really is! This video shows one of my ex-students typing over 100 words per minute! When he started learning with me, he was using two fingers to type. We call that hunting and pecking and it's super...
12 days until Christmas, prepare to touch type tips
What should you be thinking about before you learn to touch-type? 1. Take stock of where you are and what your typing speed is. You can do this by taking our typing challenge. Feel free to try and compete against your friends and family! Typing Test Competition - How...
Why DIY touch typing courses don’t work!
This review from one of our parents is exactly the outcome we are trying to achieve from our touch typing courses and why DIY courses don’t often work. I’m so chuffed with this. Catherine, Parent
Can our tutors touch type?
Our tutor Dhruv holds the Type IT! Record! Of course they can! Some learnt to touch type decades ago when they were at school or college and others have learnt more recently. In fact, many of my tutors are ex-students of mine. As they have been through the Type IT!...
An Amazing Result!
A lovely start to my weekend! It’s been a long journey for this student who finished the course today. Now he can use his laptop confidently in school to help him with all his written subjects. He completed the course typing with an accuracy of 96% accuracy and 24...
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Wendy Petersen, Course Director, Type IT! My name is Wendy, and I am the Owner and Founder of Type IT! For the last 10 years I have been teaching children how to touch type which means I help them type automatically without ever looking at their fingers! It means they...
Top 10 Benefits of Touch Typing
Top 10 Benefits of Touch Typing Speed - being able to touch type is so useful as work can be completed more quickly without having to hunt and peck for the keys. An early start in touch typing can really help to get through work more quickly. Accuracy - learning to...