The benefit of this method is that this is how typing has been taught for over a century. The drawback is that youll have to trudge through nearly 90 lessons before you begin typing natural language.

Runtime managing director Kevin Miller said that Ten Thumbs is the first typing tutorial package to make it to Mac OS X. “Touch typing is to a computer what learning to steer is to a car.

FrogPad is launching the first specialized online tutorial created by De Marque, the renowned creator of E-Learning typing tutorials for corporate settings and for grades K-12 in the US and Canada.

Experts say 25 lessons, of approximately an hour, are needed to achieve a proficient touch typing skill level.