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CueType2.0 — US$20

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Download (4.0 MB) for Mac OS X 10.3.9+     View Version History

Reviews:

» "Thanks! [M]y 10-year-old daughter picked [CueType] out of the whole [line up] of typing programs for her summer typing practice. I'm sure she'll do great with it!" — Dr. R.M.A, Ph.D.

» "Featured Download" and Home & Learning "Hot Pick" — Apple.com Downloads pages

CueType is a no-nonsense keyboarding driller, with a particularly innovative enhancement:

Instead of merely displaying drills with plain, unadorned text ...


CueType uses clever visual cues as reminders of keyboarding practices ...

Finger Cues apply color to a character according to the finger and hand used to type it.
Row Cues raise or lower a character according to whether its key lies above or below the "home row" on the keyboard.
Reach Cues slant and thicken a character if its key requires a "reach".
Shift Cues outline a character if it is typed with the use of a "shift" key.

The variety of these visual cues makes CueType unique among typing programs.
And yet, there's more ...

Version History

  • (2.0) Major revision.
  • (2.0) Added support for the Dvorak keyboard layout
  • (2.0) Added printable Performance Reports, and moved statistics-clearing commands to that panel
  • (2.0) Added Keyboard panel, with Ghost-Typing features
  • (2.0) Added Auto-Restart features for easy do-overs
  • (2.0) Universal Binary: Now runs natively on Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs
  • (2.0) Provided a "darker" theme on the main window to improve focus on the drill text area
  • (2.0) Added automatic checking for program updates
  • (2.0) Improved the graphics and added magnification options for the drill text
  • (2.0) Separated menu commands from the Drill menu into a Drills menu and an Attempts menu
  • (2.0) Miscellanous bug fixes
  • (2.0) Free upgrade for users of version 1.x

  • (1.1) Added Average Score and Number of Attempts records
  • (1.1) Added Typing Tracker, Error Marks, and Previous Error Marks
  • (1.1) Added Error Tallies, which break down error counts by character, to the Results sheet
  • (1.1) Added Mix Rows and Unmix Rows feature
  • (1.1) Added the ability to reset statistics for all drills in a group (or all drills available)
  • (1.1) Added Restart Drill button and menu item
  • (1.1) Renamed End Drill items to Stop Drill, and changed the associated command key
  • (1.1) Removed "Try Drill Again" and "Proceed to Next Drill" buttons from the Results sheet, preventing CueType from erasing a drill before the typist has an opportunity to study the results.
  • (1.1) Revised drill file format (Warning: Drills in the old format are incompatible.)
  • (1.1) Minor bug fixes, including correcting errors in a couple of drill files
  • (1.1) Free upgrade for purchasers of version 1.0.x