How to Improve Your Typing Skills With Games

Become a master typist with typing games.

In today's highly computerized world, effective and efficient typing is a desirable skill to possess. While you may want to increase your typing skills, you likely do not want to engage in hours of repetitive typing practice. To improve your skill without taking part in this tedious practice, you can use typing games. These games make typing practice fun and allow you to improve your typing skills while engaging in enjoyable and challenging activities.

Instructions

1. Take a typing test to determine your words-per-minute typing rate. Before you can work on improving your typing skills, you must determine how quickly you can type with your current skills. You can take a typing test online at the website "TypingTest."

2. Play "Bubbles" on the website "TypingMaster." This free online game is a great way to start your typing practice, as the player is initially presented with only letters to type. As the game begins, you are presented with any underwater scene. To play this game, you must type the letter that appears in each bubble to burst that bubble. If you allow any bubble to reach to top of the playing area without bursting it, you lose a life.

3. Try "Typershark." In this game on the "Popcap" website, players race to type the words, letters, numbers or symbols that are printed on sharks and piranhas. If the player fails, the dangerous sea creature attacks the scuba diver. If the player succeeds, he reaches a deep sea treasure and has the opportunity to earn extra points by demonstrating his rapid typing skills. As the player advances through the levels, the challenges become increasingly difficult, making this game addictive and educational.

4. Race against the clock in "Fast Typer." This game on the website "OnlyTypingGames" presents you with an assortment of six letter words that you must type, with no errors, as quickly as you can. At the end of the game, the system reports how many words you successfully typed during the allotted one minute period of time. Play round after round and try to beat your previous score or turn your practice into a competitive activity by racing against a friend to see who has the fastest hands.

5. Check your improvement. As you work on building your typing skills, you can see just how much you have improved by taking another typing test. Visit "TypingTest" again and take a different test to see if your skills are improving as you play your typing games. This will likely motivate you to keep working towards becoming a highly skilled typist.

References

• TypingTest: Free Online Typing Test
• TypingMaster: Bubbles
• OnlyTypingGames: Fast Typer
• PopcapGames: Typer Shark