Typing Games for Brain Fitness

Learning how to touch-type has many implications for your academic career and professional life, as good typing skills allow you to get things done more quickly and communicate more readily. Increasingly, it also affects your social life, as more and more coordination with friends happens via computers or other web-enabled mobile devices. So the reasons to learn or improve your typing skills are numerous, and increasing each year. However, there is one more really good reason to get online and play some typing games: brain fitness!

Brain fitness is just what it sounds like: the health and ability of your mind. But what do typing games have to do with mental health? Well, learning anything new is good for your brain, and
I have a feeling that typing might be particularly good. We already know that learning to play instruments is a great mental workout, and so is learning handwriting (which helps you refine your fine motor control), and really, keyboarding is not much more than a combination of handwriting and playing the piano. As you learn how to type, you are developing a mental map of the keyboard layout in your head, in the same way you might code the location of piano keys or guitar chords. As hour practice it, your are constantly refining and strengthening these connections , and learning to access them ever-faster. Anytime you are learning to do something that requires great precision and great speed, you are definitely helping out your brain.

So as your browse this site and try out the various typing games and wpm speed tests, keep in mind at you are doing more than advancing your professional capabilities; you are also increasing the capacity of your mind.

New games added to the arcade

As if we didn’t already have enough typing games for you to play, I have just added three more to the arcade for you to check out and use to help improve your typing skills.

Key Crusher – This game is actually similar to my game Keyflex, but with some different graphics and twists. Hit the keys that are coming out from you keyboard before they collide with your screen! You can earn extra points for hitting the keys quickly or for building streaks

Typing Aracnoid – yeah so I am not exactly sure why this game is called Typing Aracnoid (it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with spiders) but it’s still a typing game and therefore I have offered it to you. For me, it’s not quite as exciting as some of the others, but everyone has different interests and needs, so please check it out for yourself!

ABC Jumpers – Deploy a parachute by typing the correct letter on your keyboard and keep the falling mannequins from hitting the ground. This game deals with individual letters rather than words, which is less than ideal, but it’s great for a new typist!.

Check back next week for more games!

Typing Passage

This is a unique typing game roughly based on our Typing Tutor. The idea is that you have to work your way through 26 levels, each representing the introduction of a new key. So in the early levels you will be working with a limited set of numbers, but by the end yoiu will use every key on the keyboard.

The goal of the game is to make it to the end of the game without running out of time or without making too many mistakes. Each level you will be scored based on how fast you type the text.

Your allotted mistakes are displayed along the bottom. Each time you mistype a key, you will lose one of those allotted mistakes. If you ever run out of these, the game is over. However, you do have a chance to earn them back by typing a flawless round.

The rounds are also timed. If you run out of time, game over.

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