The Top 5 Free Typing Tests Sites

Typing Test

2008-01-16T03:10:00.000-08:00

Typing Test
By Shu Jun

Distinctly, you have known it's a fact that internet has become more important over the past decade than it has been for many years, so that you have to think about your typing skills. In the past, telephones started to dominate our personal and business communication. Instead of picking up the phone and call someone, it was much easier to instant chat with someone via MSN or send an Email. Apparently, mastering typing skills is necessary for you.

So do you know how fast you can type? And is your typing accuracy good enough? To know your typing speed and typing accuracy, you can clearly know your typing skills. Of course, to know your typing skills, you should take typing test to test your tying speed and accuracy on a keyboard.

Surely, it's easy to learn to type with your two fingers just by looking at the keyboard. It's quite slow and terrible to type by this way. Without doubt, the best way to gain how to type and how to improve typing speed is by using typing software, and with your typing improvement, you can take typing test to see your typing accuracy and typing speed in wpm, words per minute, as soon as you finish typing this short paragraph.

The most important and basic score is words per minute, or wpm for short. Often, this is a corrected score, where each error made during the test reduces the words per minute by one. Another common score is an accuracy percentage - which is simply the number of words you got right compared to how many you typed. For instance, 80% accuracy means you averaged 8 out of 10 words right.

Typing tests are offered by GS Typing Tutor, an online typing tutorial which teaches typing for Qwerty the US standard and Dvorak the US alternative standard keyboards. In typing lessons rhythm of music is used to encourage rhythmical typing. For practice and the typing tutor has typing games. Typing exercises and typing games accommodate all skills. From beginners to advanced Qwerty typist who wants to learn typing on more comfortable and faster Dvorak's layout of a computer keyboard.

You may take a typing test to understand your current typing performance at any time. Once you complete the test, you can print or view the diploma of the test. The typing tutor supports many types of typing tests as the following below:

1. General typing test is a traditional way to examine your skills. The typing tutor shows the test text on the screen and you copy them to complete the test.

2. Typing At Will is a test which no test text is provided, you type what you want, so that the accuracy is meaningless but the typing speed.

3. Original Copy Typing Test is a unique feature of this typing tutor, which examines your typing speed with the original copy (printed copy). This test type needs two copies of the test text, one is printed on the paper, and another is stored on your computer for checking the error purpose. After the test starting, you type the text from the printed copy, and the program computes the accuracy and speed.

Start to take typing test to know your typing improvement now, and know more about typing skills, refer to the typing tutor at http://www.typingstar.com

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The Top 5 Free Typing Tests Sites

2007-12-11T06:10:00.000-08:00

Well if you are just like the rest of us who are making sure to spend every dime as an investment, we get pretty picky about it. Especially when you thought that jobs don’t come with the cost, or do they? There are some sites that require that you a pay small fee in order to take their typing test. But if you’re like me, then the cheapest for me is FREE! Being put in a situation to search for these sites, I wanted to share with you the top 5 typing tests sites that I have encountered.

#1 Site: FREETYPINGGAME.NET http://www.freetypinggame.net
The site seems a bit cluttered with a lot of entertainment. It features a lot of different fun ways to learn and improve your typing skills. It even has GAMES for you to play. I liked the typing test because it gives you an option of how long you want to take the test along with some choices of material to type. It is pretty easy and friendly to the user. For those of you with competitive attitudes can even post your high scores on the site for others to see. (Stop bragging will ya…)

#2 Site: TYPEONLINE.CO.UK
http://typeonline.co.uk
This site is everything about typing. It even gives you options to practice with numbers for those who would like to brush up on their numerical data entry skills. It gives you crisp and simple results right there. The site is extremely friendly along with great tools.

#3 Site: CALCULATORCAT.COM http://www.calculatorcat.com/typing_test/#typing_speed_test
What I like about this site is not only does it provide with you a simple typing test but it even asks if you would like add their link to your website (if you have one of course. However you could always use a blog and then etc… there are a lot of opportunities to be made with blogs. Anyway I went to look for strictly a typing test and found a business opportunity as well. Go figure!!

#4 Site: TYPINGTEST.COM
http://www.typingtest.com/
I love this site because it is so easy to read and maneuver around. It looks crisp and informational. I felt extremely comfortable doing their typing test. Matter of fact, I actually scored higher than the rest of the tests I took from the other sites that I have recommended above. It’s a clean professional atmosphere with good learning tools.

#5 Site: LEARN2TYPE.COM
http://www.learn2type.com/TenKeyTest
I had to add a favorite for 10 keys. This is a great site to not only get free data entry typing tests but it also has a great tutor tool to use as well. When you sign up for a FREE membership you get to access a lot of cool tools. You can practice word and 10 key typing.

I hope I gave you some good insights as to where to start and look. Good luck on your typing skills!

How And Where To Get Free Printer Paper When You Recycle Your Printer Ink

2007-12-11T06:08:00.000-08:00

When you are trying to start your own business, or even just going to school, you have to make sure to save as much mullah (money) as you can! So when you have to make a stop at the Recycling center, stop by your nearest Office Supply Store as well.

This is quite simple! Although some stores may have changed their policies and procedures, you can still get a HUGE savings. I stumbled upon this with an ex coworker of mine. As I was complaining about all the paper I had to print out from home and why it is costing me so much money to replenish some of the office materials (mainly printing paper), he mentioned to me that if I went to “Staples” they will actually give you a cube stack of printing paper when you bring in your printer ink. Can you imagine that!!!
So if I bring in “1” printer ink for recycle (per ink cartridge per stack of paper), I can get some free printing paper? Well need you say anymore…. I was on it!! I had so many ink cartridges just sitting in dust and now it was ready to be actually used. So I gathered up my printer cartridges and ran down to Staples and lo and behold (as the music was playing), they took my used printer ink cartridges and gave me FREE printing paper. Don’t get me wrong, I was not going to complain about the quality of the free paper, I was just soooo happy that I could actually utilize something that I paid too much for (I think ink cartridge prices are ridiculous), and I could actually get something back for this. I was so happy that everyone I met walking out I greeted them with great big smiles. You know like the Geico commercial. I just saved a bunch of money… Hee, hee. Well I DID save a bunch of money.

I believe all the stores who are involved in this exchange are Staples, Office Depot; Office Max and the others but you would have to ask. Hmm.. I haven’t called the other stores like Rite Aid, Wal-Mart and etc… Sounds like another project coming up. I have learned through out my business venture is to always ask!! It can’t hurt right??

Now I believe some things have changed. I think some of the stores are offering in store rebates for the printer ink recycling. I believe it is like $3 off any products. So if you were to bring in lets say 4 printer cartridges, then you would have an in store rebate of $12.00. You can get about 3 stacks of bulk paper for that price. Still not bad at all. You would probably (if any) pay about a couple cents more.

So to close, any corners that you can cut for now will help you in the long run. There are Smart businessmen and Shrewd businessmen. Think to yourself which would you rather be or are?? That is what separates us from the others.