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Add to SafariWhen comparing RapidTyping vs TypeLit.io, the Slant community recommends RapidTyping for most people. In the question“What are the best free typing tutors?” RapidTyping is ranked 1st while TypeLit.io is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose RapidTyping is:
It's free for personal or corporate use with no registration or usage limitations as well as no toolbars or adware.
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Pros
Pro Free
It's free for personal or corporate use with no registration or usage limitations as well as no toolbars or adware.
Pro Supports famous keyboard layouts
Pro Progress tracking
Pro Program languages
RapidTyping interface is enabled for the following languages:
- Abkhazian
- Arabic
- Bosnian
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Chinese (Traditional)
- Dutch
- English
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hungarian
- Indonesian
- Kurdish
- Polish
- Portuguese (Brasil)
- Russian
- Serbian
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
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Pro work
Pro Lesson editor
Pro Offline use
No Internet-access needed to run the program.
Pro Portable
Pro Full courses for all levels
Pro Simple XML storage for lessons
Pro Simple interface
Pro Illustrated hand movement
Pro Virtual keyboard
Pro Arabic support
It supports the Arabic keyboard layout.
Pro Customizable plans
Pro Dvorak keyboard layout support
Pro Classrooms are supported
Pro Clean and responsive design
Easy on the eyes and good typing feedback
Pro Entire books are provided
It's not just snippets of text, or even whole chapters that you can type. It's ENTIRE BOOKS
Cons
Con Colour coding could be improved upon
It would be nice if the prompts were in the same colour as the key they want you to hit on the keyboard so you can easily see which fingers to use.
Con Proprietary software
Even though this is a freeware, it's still a proprietary software.
Con No native Linux version
Though it can be run on Linux with some effort.
Con No native macOS version
Though it can be run on macOS with some effort: http://www.rapidtyping.com/downloads.html
Con Lessons are repetitive
Lessons are repetitive and a bit boring, but you can add your own if you want to.
Con Buggy on some browsers
Safari is particularly bad.
