When I was in high school in the late 90s, classes such as home economics, shorthand and basic keyboarding were already a thing of the past. I could read my Japanese textbook much easier than my mother's shorthand book from the early 70s. She learned proper touch typing in school while I developed a very fast method of hunt-and-peck that got me up to 73 words-per-minute.
Typist tries to teach basic touch typing. You can take a basic course and then progress to speed drills, longer exercises and the like. Two specific sections focus on the calculator keypad and the Dvorak keyboard.
Typist's lessons are baby steps in touch typing. You get used to having your hands positioned properly on the keyboard, then build up from there. Stats displayed during the e
