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Articles  -  December 14, 2022Featured

Our Fun Facts of 2022

Here is the compilation of our fun and educational keyboard facts posted on Facebook over the last year. Get your fill of anecdotes!

Articles  -  September 30, 2022Featured

4 Ways to Type, Ranked from Worst to Best

Which of the typing techniques listed in our ranking do you use? See if you have all the abilities of a keyboard whiz!

News  -  August 30, 2022Featured

What’s New for Typing Pal in 2022?

New practice texts, a new badge category and new admin settings: discover how to take advantage of our back-to-school improvements for 2022.

Tips  -  August 16, 2022Featured

How to Update Accounts at the Start of the School Year

For administrators, the start of the school year often involves a delicate operation: large numbers of student accounts must be moved into the right group for their new class. This is usually the job of the account’s Super Administrator or the School Administrator, and can be done in different ways.

Articles  -  July 25, 2022Featured

How to Type Emojis on a Keyboard

You can type emojis instead of selecting them from a list. Learn about the keyboard shortcuts you need to type them without using a mouse, and type even faster!

Articles  -  June 15, 2022Featured

Curious Keys: Keyboard Layouts

Let’s face it: the most popular keyboards aren’t necessarily the most ergonomic. In this latest article in our "Curious Keyboards" series, we take a look at different concepts that attempt to alleviate the annoyances of the traditional keyboard, whether in their physical shape or the placement of their keys.

Articles  -  May 18, 2022Featured

Curious Keys: One-Handed Keyboards

Have you ever tried typing with one hand? It’s hard to say whether keyboards designed for this use would increase your efficiency, but they will at least pique your curiosity. This is the second article in our "Odd Keyboards" series.

Articles  -  April 28, 2022Featured

Curious Keys: Keyboard Mechanisms

What is the difference between a mechanical and membrane keyboard? Can you name two types of keyboards without physical keys? Find the answers in this first article of the "Odd Keyboards" series!

Tips  -  March 10, 2022Featured

Typing Pal: 3 Hidden Functions

Do you think you know all of Typing Pal’s secrets? Even functions that aren’t visible in the interface? Take a look at this article to double check!

Tips  -  February 3, 2022Featured

5 Challenges to Relaunch Your Students' Training

What to do when some students have completed the learning exercises before the rest? Introduce them to activities in a new light with themed challenges.

Tips  -  January 20, 2022Featured

How to Set Up a Typing Practice Routine

How often should you practice to quickly learn to type faster? How long should each practice session be? At what time of the day? Here are our tips.

Articles  -  December 16, 2021Featured

Our Fun Facts of 2021

Here is the compilation of our fun and educational keyboard facts posted on Facebook throughout the year. Get your fill of anecdotes!

Tips  -  December 9, 2021Featured

How to Organize a Speed Competition With Typing Pal

Who are the typing aces in your class? In your school? Let’s bet your students want to find out just as much as you do. There’s the appeal of a typing speed competition! Here we walk you through you a simple process, including a single round, for a few groups or a whole school.

Articles  -  December 2, 2021Featured

Stretch Without Leaving Your Office Chair

Here are some simple exercises to reinvigorate you after spending a long time in front of the computer. Take the time to do them between two training activities: Your body will thank you and your attention will be renewed.

Articles  -  November 16, 2021Featured

What Is a Good Typing Speed?

The average typing speed is around 40 words per minute. To achieve a high level of productivity, aim for 60 to 70 words per minute. Have a look at our tables presenting the different tiers according to age groups.

Tips  -  November 4, 2021Featured

Games : for Training and Entertainment

Typing Pal offers two games for training while having fun, to break up routine or take a break. Discover Cosmik Ball and Monkeys in Jeopardy.

Tips  -  September 21, 2021Featured

Giving Your First Lesson With Typing Pal

Need to get to know Typing Pal fast? Check out our recommendations for pedagogical resources.

News  -  August 26, 2021Featured

What’s New for Typing Pal in 2021?

A new version of Typing Pal – School Edition was rolled out on July 8, 2021. It includes several improvements for the school year 2021–2022. Here are the main points to know.

Tips  -  August 19, 2021Featured

Create a Typing Pal Account by Signing In With Google, Office 365 or Clever

To simplify the login process, students can create their own Typing Pal accounts by using the single sign-on services from Office 365, Google or Clever. Here’s how!

Articles  -  July 29, 2021Featured

5 Reasons Why Paying for a Typing Tutorial Application is Better Than Using a Free Version

There’s more to consider than just price when you compare typing applications. Find out why it’s worth paying for a subscription.

Tips  -  May 13, 2021Featured

How to Filter Results for a Fairer Assessment

Typing Pal collects many statistics on student performance. Here are the ones to compile for a fairer final assessment.

Articles  -  March 25, 2021Featured

Do You Capitalize Properly When Typing?

Keyboard aces type uppercase letters with both hands. Type as they do by learning the recommended method and by following our tips for mastering typing with these large and beautiful letters in all circumstances, whether on your computer or your phone.

Articles  -  March 9, 2021Featured

Touch Typing: An Asset in Homeschooling

Do you homeschool? Discover how learning a good typing method can be of great benefit to your children and to you too.

Tips  -  January 28, 2021Featured

How to Earn All the Badges

Who doesn’t like collecting badges? Thankfully, Typing Pal has lots of them! They’re divided into four categories and are awarded for progress as well as for particular achievements, making them a fun and effective way to set new goals at home or rekindle students’ interest at school.

Articles  -  January 14, 2021Featured

Online Classes: 3 Good Practices to Adopt

Between the lockdown, closures and alternating days at school, online classes are playing an ever more important role in teaching. To help you out, here are a few tips to make your experience more productive and less tiring.

Articles  -  November 19, 2020Featured

How to type faster: 3 tips from subtitling

Producing subtitles requires mastery of the keyboard. Subtitlers are often paid based on the length of a video, not on the number of hours worked. That’s why professionals who transcribe dialogue for TV shows, movies and videos have a whole bag of tricks for typing at full speed! Here are three pieces of advice inspired by these keyboard wizzes.

News  -  August 20, 2020Featured

Typing Pal’s School Edition: Now Even Better!

Druide informatique is pleased to announce the rollout of a new version of Typing Pal — School Edition, its web-based typing tutorial application for educational institutions. This year’s improvements aim to ensure student motivation, an important factor in their success during this pandemic.

Articles  -  June 11, 2020Featured

Teach Your Students to Type From the Comfort of Their Home

If you are looking for educational activities so that your students can keep learning from home, you’ll be happy to know that Typing Pal is accessible off school grounds. The online application allows students to learn and improve their typing technique while having fun at the same time. What’s more, it equips teachers with powerful tools to supervise their group and customize their training program.

Articles  -  May 20, 2020Featured

Lorem ipsum: The Ultimate Placeholder Text

Have you ever read a webpage or document that used this text without paying much attention to it? The lorem ipsum is a placeholder text used in publishing and graphic design.

Articles  -  May 7, 2020Featured

Type Faster Using Keyboard Shortcuts

Whether you use a Mac or a PC, a good way to save time is to use keyboard shortcuts when typing. Even if it might seem difficult to remember them all, the initial time investment is well worth your while. You will type more quickly and also avoid injuries linked with repeated use of a mouse. What’s not to like?

Articles  -  April 8, 2020Featured

How to Clean Your Keyboard

Whether you work on a computer every day or only use one a couple of times a week, a good cleaning never hurts.

Tips  -  March 30, 2020Featured

How to Get Your Child Started on Typing Pal

Typing Pal’s Home Edition was specially developed to make it easy for parents to involve themselves in their child’s learning. Once your child starts Typing Pal’s training program, you will be able to supervise their work, identify areas that need improving, and provide the necessary encouragement.

Articles  -  March 10, 2020Featured

Dvorak: Master of the Keyboard

At the beginning of the 1930s, American researchers August Dvorak and William Dealey decided to create a more ergonomic alternative to the QWERTY keyboard. They place the comfort of the user at the centre of their work. The Dvorak layout (Dvorak Simplified Keyboard or DSK) was born and was then adapted for languages other than English.

Articles  -  February 19, 2020Featured

Five Bad Typing Habits To Avoid

It’s very easy to acquire bad habits when you are learning to type. Watch out for these five!

Tips  -  February 5, 2020Featured

Assessing Your Students’ Progress

In order to get an idea of your students’ progress, we suggest evaluating their typing ability at the beginning and at the end of the training program by using Typing Pal’s Initial Test and Final Test.

Articles  -  January 15, 2020Featured

What is the difference between QWERTY, QWERTZ and AZERTY keyboards?

The QWERTY keyboard is prevalent in the Americas and in several regions of Europe. The QWERTZ keyboard is used in German-speaking countries, while in France and Belgium, AZERTY is the norm. Why do these different keyboards exist?

Tips  -  January 9, 2020Featured

A Playful Exploration of the Keyboard for Elementary Students — Three Motivational Classroom Activities

It’s no secret. Knowing how to type is an essential skill in today’s world. Your students are pros at tapping away on their smartphones, but are they just as sure-handed on a keyboard? The key to helping them develop their typing technique is regular practice in the classroom.

Articles  -  November 14, 2019Featured

Tips for Improving Your Typing Skills

How do you type on the computer? Do you use all your fingers or just your index fingers? With the help of the tips below and a little practice, anyone can acquire a good typing method!

Tips  -  November 6, 2019Featured

Keeping Parents Updated on Their Child’s Progress

Parents are crucial in helping their children persevere and succeed at school. A new feature of Typing Pal — School Edition is a report that allows parents to follow their children’s progress in class more easily.

Tips  -  October 31, 2019Featured

For Halloween, Typing Pal Takes a Dark Turn…

Dark mode will be offered as of today for Typing Pal’s Home and Personal Editions. (It will be available for the School Edition in the summer of 2020.) Try it out—if you’re not too scared of the dark, that is. 🙂

News  -  June 28, 2019Featured

Typing Pal’s New Features for 2019 — School Edition

Druide informatique is pleased to announce the rollout of a new version of Typing Pal – School Edition, its web-based typing tutorial application for educational institutions. Its most important new features this year include new tools to help teachers guide their students.

Tips  -  January 15, 2019Featured

Typing Apostrophes on an iPad

In order for students to use Typing Pal with an external keyboard, the Smart Punctuation option needs to be deactivated in the tablet’s settings.

News  -  June 27, 2018Featured

A New Look for Typing Pal – School Edition

Druide informatique is pleased to announce the rollout of a new version of Typing Pal – School Edition, its web-based typing tutorial application for educational institutions. As well as an entirely modernized and unified look, this update boasts an even richer, more diversified set of content.

Tips  -  May 18, 2018Featured

Updating the Status of Completed Exercises to New Targets

Once your students have successfully completed all the exercises, you can set them new challenges by raising the group’s accuracy and speed targets.

Tips  -  April 2, 2018Featured

How to Bulk Edit Groups and Accounts

Bulk editing helps you save time by configuring dozens, even hundreds, of groups or accounts in one go.

Tips  -  March 1, 2018Featured

How to Improve Efficiency With Keyboard Shortcuts

Your students can improve their efficiency by using several keyboard shortcuts, thereby allowing their fingers to remain on the keyboard before the activity starts.

Tips  -  January 11, 2018Featured

Choosing the Right Font

Choosing the right font can help your students better distinguish letters and make reading easier. That is why Typing Pal now offers a choice of several fonts in which to display the exercises and practice texts.

Tips  -  October 6, 2017Featured

Which Unit of Speed to Choose?

Typing speed is measured in words per minute or characters per minute. You can choose either of these units depending on the context, your training program or your personal preference.

Tips  -  August 15, 2017Featured

How to Selectively Delete Results

Your students’ results are invaluable. However, in some cases, it may be useful to selectively delete them. For example, you may want to delete the results of certain activities you want students to start over or reset the final test so students can retake it in a supervised school environment.

News  -  June 28, 2017Featured

Typing Pal’s New Features for 2017

Druide informatique is delighted to announce the rollout of its most customizable version ever of Typing Pal, its web-based typing tutorial application for schools and individuals. In addition to new custom settings, this update brings an array of interface and content improvements.

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