TapTyping - typing trainer suite

Useful for learning Dvorak. Otherwise a 5 star app, I have to deduct 2 stars because it doesn’t sync progress across devices. Using a cooler master blue cherry switch mechanical keyboard, I physically took out the keys and set them up for Dvorak (very easy). I connected it through a USB adapter that I originally bought for connecting cameras to iPads. I changed my iOS Settings, Keyboard -> hardware keyboard to be Dvorak. Now I just peck type and use this app. Note that some hardware keyboards don’t work because they say the iPad doesn’t provide enough power. Bluetooth mechanical keyboards are kind of new and I don’t know if I trust them, but you can use any Bluetooth keyboard. Just print out a picture of a Dvorak keyboard layout. This works great and it might be better than moving around the keys. I moved around the keys because I wanted to fully commit to this project. This is my 3rd attempt at learning Dvorak (every couple of years around winter when I have extra time I take on this project and eventually get bored and quit). I wish this app had Dvorak tutorials, but it’s fine, and probably only .001% of users would appreciate this feature. The worst thing about this app is it doesn’t sync across the cloud.

Good, but is intended for learning to type on the screen. But thankfully still works on keyboard though,🙂 Really loved the quotes, I did them right after I finished the crash course. Really nice, I recommend this. ⌨️ 😉

TapType is a remarkable well designed app. My training is in psychology and I’m very impressed by the clever way that TT uses instructions, tips and hacks as the material you are practicing typing with. So you not only get everything you would expect from a typing app —immediate visual and auditory feedback on errors as well as stats, an infrared map of your successes and errors—but you also are learning tips, hacks and instructional info on how the iOS keyboard works…and how to think about the three layers of the iOS keyboard so you can use it most efficiently. Beyond TapType being a great app, the developer has been very responsive to any questions I had. I can only think of one other developer that consistently rises to the occasion as he has. On learning when not to use the shift key at the beginning of sentences to let auto caps do that for you, I do wish it penalized your score when you do mistakenly use shift at the beginning of sentences, and I hope the developer adds that functionality. But that is a fairly persnickety detail relative to the brilliant simplicity of the app. I’m already enjoying watching my typing speeds on the rise on both my iPad and iPhone.