Typing Master Express Review

The Review
Although this program appears at first sight as a tool for improvement of already good typing skills, it is in my opinion suitable for any level of typing skill, even for beginners, since it offers numerous lessons with a wide variety of difficulty levels and shows useful tips on ergonomy, typing techniques and speed improvement in between.

Just upon startup was I delighted by a nice and simple interface summarizing all the available features of this program. Only later had I begun to realize the range of rather bright colors chosen for its interface might become slightly unpleasant for the eyes throughout the time. This is however compensated with the wide range of functions at your hand with this tool, which was for me quite unexpected at this price. Ranging from simple typing tests aimed at right finger placement to advanced statistics building and nifty typing observer that keeps an eye on your typing routine to recommend just the right training exercises for you, this app is definitely capable of smoothing out a motivated person's learning curve while providing additional motivation in form of simple but well designed mini-games.

There were two features I immediately fell in love with. The first one was adjustment of lesson duration based on immediate progress, which is also indicated by a bar-scale in the sidebar. Another feature especially worth mentioning are charts at the end of lessons visually showing your progress and keys to focus on in further training.

One minor drawback is you can't change the font the exercise text appears in, however, with the default settings, the text is well readable and the active segment or word is visibly distinguished from the rest. Also, additional visual depictors like arrow or underline are displayed for better focusing. The ability to export statistics into a personalized summary PDF may come in handy too, but the option to import any desired text file to be used as a basis for typing test deserves to finalize this review.