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Most important Rapid Typing Tutor 3.4.3 features include the following:

- Added the BackSpace key support;

- Added modes for continue lesson:
"Requires the fixing the wrong characters";
"Requires the right character type",
"No requirements";

- Speed up the startup application:

- Updated Chinese Traditional translation ( thanks to Robert Lee );

Most important Rapid Typing Tutor 3.4 features include the following:

- Added Serbian interface translation; Thanks to Ivan Starchevicy

- Added full Russian lesson course; Thanks to Tatiana Belous

- Added support for Euro-keyboard( Alt Gr symbols );

- Added support fonts with non-fixed width;

- Added support Unicode fonts;

- Added customizing of lesson and keyboard fonts;( Options->Lesson->Font )

- Added English lessons for follow Latin keyboard layouts:

Croatian

Czech
Czech QWERTY
Czech Programmers

Hungarian
Hungarian (101-keys)

Polish 214
Polish Programmers

Romanian Legacy
Romanian Standard
Romanian Programmers

Slovakian
Slovakian QWERTY

Slovenian

Bulgarian Latin

Serbian Latin

German
German IBM
German Swiss-French
German Swiss-German

Belgian Period

Canadian French
Canadian Multilingual

Danish

Dutch

Finnish

French
French Swiss-French
French Swiss-German
French Belgium
French Belgium Comma
French Canadian-French Legacy
French Canadian-French

Icelandic

Italian
Italian 142
Italian Swiss French
Italian Swiss German

Norwegian

Portuguese
Portuguese Brazilian ABNT
Portuguese Brazilian ABNT 2

Spain
Spain Variation
Spain Latin American

Swedish

Most important Rapid Typing Tutor 3.3.6 features include the following:

- Added Tips panel for beginner;

- Added the lesson creating from file(s)

- Added full German lesson course; Thanks to Matthias Eller

- Added full Arabic lesson course; Thanks to Ibraheem Saed

- Added the silent install mode;

- Updated the German interface translation.Thanks to Matthias Eller

- Fixed the font char-set bug in some languages;

- Fixed some controls in the right-left interface.

Most important Rapid Typing Tutor 3.3 features include the following:

- Added Arabic interface language; Thanks to Ibraheem Saed

- Fixed bug with right-left text direction on the Arabic and Hebrew keyboard layout;

- Fixed visual bug with pictures in the lesson window on some video-cards;

- Removed a repeated sounds on the Shift key;

- Updated Chines Traditional interface language; Thanks to Robert Lee

- Updated Bosnian interface language; Thanks to Belmar Begic

Most important Rapid Typing Tutor 3.2.9 features include the following:

- Added lesson background schemes;

- Added support the right-left languages in the typing lessons; Thanks to Ardeshir Abasi for detailed bug report

- Improved work on older video cards.

- Fixed the running bug on the some Windows version.

Most important Rapid Typing Tutor 3.2.7 features include the following:

- Added Greek interface language. Thanks to geogeo.gr

- Updated Chinese Traditional interface language. Thanks to Robert Lee

- Updated Bulgarian interface language. Thanks to Stoyan Dimitrov

- Updated Farsi interface language. Thanks to Ardeshir Abasi

- Fixed bug with system context menu ( by Alt+Enter ). Thanks to Stoyan Dimitrov for detailed bug report

- Fixed bug with label and the numbers on "Results" dialog box on the left are in WPM. Thanks to Stoyan Dimitrov

- Fixed the running bug on the Windows XP SP2. Thanks to Sushma Dave, Mridula

Most important Rapid Typing Tutor 3.2.5 features include the following:

- Added the control "Sound" in the main window;

- Added the background music;

- Added more 30 sound effects;

- Added the mode of the random choose of sound effect;

- Added support of the sound schemes.

- Added Farsi interface language. Thanks to Ardeshir Abasi

- Added support right-left interface.

- Fixed bug with "Wait cursor" on the some dialog boxes.

Most important Rapid Typing Tutor 3.2.3 features include the following:

- Added the notice "Caps Lock was pressed" in the window "Current Lesson";
Thanks for the idea Lori Salazar

- Added highlight of current lessons language in the menu "Language".

- Added support of the addition "Theme Colors".

- Added support of the addition "User Avatar".

- Added support of the addition "Spanish lesson course".Thanks to Donald Loseff

- Fixed: The parameter "Speed" in the "Results" dialog box depends upon selected parameters in the Options->Statistics window;

- Fixed bug with right thumb on the virtual keyboard;

- Fixed visual bug on the bottom of large statistics table.

- Fixed restoring position of the window "Options".

- Fixed restoring position of the current lesson.

- Improved mode "Pause" in the window "Current lesson";

- Disabled processing system keys such as Volume Up, Volume Down etc. in the current lesson;

Most important Rapid Typing Tutor 3.2 features include the following:

- Added icons for marking of numpad/mainpad lessons;

- Added dialogs "Lesson Properties", "Section Properties";

- Added 99 colors for interface themes;

- Fixed bugs of user course editing;

- Fixed disappearance of the translation in the dialog "Options";

- Fixed visual bug on the splitter;

- Fixed sound-driver bug on some versions of the Windows 7;

Most important Rapid Typing Tutor 3.1.5 features include the following:

- Additional numeric pad typing lessons;

- Added numeric virtual keyboard;

- Added system key names on the virtual keyboard;

- Added the "Course Properties" dialog box;

- Added a "Copy & Paste" menu to the Lesson Editor;

- Restored the "Lesson Editor" tab;

- Fixed the saving of user files under Microsoft Vista/Windows 7 (requires full reinstall for version 3.0 and 3.1 );

- Fixed previous "import" bugs (for RT version 2 lesson users);

- Fixed virtual keyboard highlights in the lesson editor;

- Fixed a "rename user lesson" bug;

- Changed background color on virtual keyboards;

- Improved the mapping of virtual hands;

Most Important Rapid Typing Tutor 3.1.1 feature improvements:

- Added the full courses for Dvorak, Dvorak left hand, and Dvorak right hand layouts.

- Added Albanian translation. Thanks to Artur Lugu, Teola Shkodra, Loreta Tomaj.

- Added keyboard auto-detect.

- Added a new keyboard type.

- Improved both the basic and main courses (corrected and added lessons for all keyboard types).

- Added a welcome message on the start lesson.

- Updated the French translation. Thanks to Sophie.

- Updated the dialog buttons.

- Fixed a bug that existed with the updating of the "Current Language" caption on the "Options" dialog box.

- Fixed a bug that existed with the coloring menu on the "Options" dialog box.

- Changed the color of the current lesson text (it is lighter now).

- Fixed previous memory leaks.

Notable Rapid Typing Tutor 3.0 features include:

- Available in 19 languages.Thanks to Donald Loseff, Gustavo Firveda, Robert Lee, Martijn, Street Jaanus, Davis Sheyko, Stefan Stefanov, Andrey Lisovoy.

- A new User's Manual. Thanks to writer Keith Johnson from USA(Florida).

- Added touch typing lesson course for Spanish Traditional and Ecuador keyboards.Thanks to Donald Lossef from Spain.

- Improved interface of application. Thanks to designer Tatiana Belous from Ukraine.

- Fixed bug on the Hungary virtual keyboard. Thanks to Judit Horvath(Losha) from Hungary.

- Improved large lessons performance.

- Support for a new lesson courses created users.

- Improved navigation by lessons.

Since the release of Rapid Typing Tutor 3.0, there have been several enhancements to the general user interface. In other words, there are several features you will encounter as you use Rapid Typing Tutor 3.0 that are not explained in the User’s Guide (that you see when you click F1 while using the application). Each note in this document illustrates a new feature and gives a brief explanation.

When you are completing a lesson, you can have a blank background behind the displayed letters. This is called the Simple Lesson View. Click the first of three icons located in the top right hand part of the screen. Click on the button that is highlighted in red (see above).

When you are completing a lesson, you can have a graphical but stationary (e.g. non-animated) background behind the displayed letters. This is called the Background Lesson View. Click the second of three icons located in the top right hand part of the screen. Click on the button that is highlighted in red (see above).

When you are completing a lesson, you can have a fully animated background behind the displayed letters. This is called the Animation Background View. Click the third of three icons located in the top right hand part of the screen. Click on the button that is highlighted in red (see above).

The third button in the left pane of the Rapid Typing application lets you customize your typing exercises. Specifically, you first create a course and then by clicking the top icon in the course (highlighted above in red) you can create lessons that designate the course. In the dialog box that appears, type in the lesson name and new section you want to cover and then click OK to save. You have just added a new lesson to the course.

When setting up a course, simply click on the third icon in the left pane of the application’s general display. From here, you can then customize the course to meet your individual needs. The left pane of this window shows course information and the right pane shows information about the text you will be typing, as well as properties of the text.

Another way that you can create a course is to click on the “plus” (+) icon next to the main course text box displayed in the lower part of the left pane. This button, when clicked, opens a dialog box that lets you create a course by typing in the name of the course. After entering this information, click OK to save.

Just above the virtual keyboard you will see a text box that shows you the lesson that you are completing. In this case, the lesson selected includes the letters “a”, “s”, and “l”. You will only be asked to type the letters that are displayed in this text box.

After you complete your typing lesson, you can click on the second icon in the left pane of the general application (that looks like a graph) and this button will activate a statistics window that will summarize your typing results. It will show the date, title characters per minute, accuracy level, and duration of the lesson. All this information is displayed in the right pane of the displayed statistics window.

To delete a lesson, click on the red “X” that is displayed inside the lesson editor window. The lesson that is currently displayed will be deleted from the lessons list. So, if you have a course with several lessons, all remaining lessons can be used minus the lesson you have just deleted.

Just above the virtual keyboard you will see a button with a red “x”. If you click on this button, a dialog box will appear asking you to confirm the deletion of the present course you are using. Click OK to continue or click No to abort this request. Remember that you most likely will want to delete individual lessons from within courses but not delete courses because they potentially have many lessons you have completed, along with saved statistics and performance information.