CueType improves your typing

When I was in high school, so long ago, I took a typing class to fill up my senior year credit requirements. I didn't think I'd need to actually learn to type, so I sort of breezed my way through. Today, my typing is...well, let's just say I'm not going to win a contest. Luckily, I have CueType by Day Late and Dollar Short software to get me reacquainted with those home keys.

CueType is typing (or "keyboarding" as it's called today) instruction software that works rather simply: Pick a drill and begin. When you're finished, CueType reports on your errors and words-per-minute rate. It also prompts proper technique by offering color-coded cues during practice sessions. For example, finger cues apply color to match a character with a specific finger, row cues raise or lower a character according to whether its key lies above or below the "home row" on the keyboard, and reach cues slant a character whose key lies outside the "natural" column of keys for a finger. Pretty nice. All of this also works to keep your eyes off of the keyboard and on the screen.

CueType costs $10 US and requires Mac OS 10.3 or greater. Perhaps I should pay the shareware fee.