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Nimble Fingers: Skill Building and Beyond






Skill Building

After you have mastered the difficult basic keystrokes, you will enjoy the "Skill Building" topic.

Please take your time and don't rush through the previous exercises in "Beginning Keystrokes."

If you are not satisfied with your speed and/or accuracy, then re-key an exercise. You have to develop the correct finger-key reaches before so you can build speed and accuracy.

With the main menu shown, click on "Skill Building."



Within the major topic of "Skill Building" notice that [Speed Building] is recommended (highlighted in green) along with the ten Speed Building exercises.

You could jump ahead by clicking on [Strange but True] to display the ten exercises in that topic.

However, please be patient and let the "Little Professor" guide you through the program.

Skill Building topics are more interesting. Typing exercises are available dealing with "Speed Building, "Strange but True," "Pets and Things," Hobbies," and "Careers."

Only slected portions of the sceen are shown from now on to save space.






There are ten
"Advanced Keystroke Topics." 		Then the Little Professor guides
you through ten "Skill Building Topics."


And then there are the "Accuracy Drills" topics.

There are ten typing exercises within each of the "buttons" shown on the topics screen. That means each topic screen can access 100 typing exercises.

But wait! There are 100 more exercises in the "Progress Review" topics shown.

Why more exercises? There are over 500 exercises so far. So, why more exercises?

Simple. We don't want you to become bored. Exercises are "up beat" on a wide variety of topics.

You can have fun while building speed and accuracy. And all this time the Little Professor will be watching you, and may even send you "back-to-the-classroom" for practice on troublesome keystrokes.
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Adding On Line Exercises

The selections available on the main menu are shown on the left. If the "Online Exercises" button is not shown, then the "Control Panel" (which is password protected) was used to limit access to this selection.

This often happens in educational situations where the instructor wants to limit web access.
Of course, in order to use "Add Online Exercises," your computer must be online.




Using the "Add Exercises" screen shown, let's add an exercise to Word Wacker by downloading the exercise from the web.

These exercises are FREE and can be used to customize the program to your own specific keyboarding application.

Exercises dealing with health care terms and/or legal terms tend to be extremely demanding. For the moment, we'll keep it fun.

Click the underlined to browse the web exercises. This is a good way to get an overview of the exercises available for downloading.



A partial screen is shown below of what will appear if you click the underlined to browse the web exercises.


Get on the typing bus! Take a tour of the extensive specialized exercises available for downloading.

To take a tour click on the small bus.

You can learn the terms used in various fields, while building typing speed and accuracy.
While on the bus tour, you will see two icons.

This is a "Grade A" exercise.
It is not necessarily a difficult exercise, but the terms used represent the major terminology in the field.


This is a challenging exercise.
More on these exercises in a moment.


Click on "1 Minute" and the one minute topics will appear as shown.

Each of these topics have numerous exercises. Exercises vary because we are constantly updating the web.


Click on "1 Minute" and the one minute topics will appear as shown.

Click on the "Sports" topic and the exercises in this topic will appear as shown.


Click on "Beauty Pageant" and the exercise will appear as shown.

The exercise deals with selecting a "cute" garbage truck.

Use a similar approach to download any of the timed typing exercises.



Click the underlined link for more Nimble Fingers instructions.


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