Six Places Online to Improve Grammar and Typing Skills

How well you do type? Do you estimate how many words per minute you type? How about editing skills? Online there are websites that test how fast you type and if you can spot spelling/Grammar mistakes to improve skills. Currently all the websites listed in this article are free to use.

Typeonline offers a basic typing speed test. There is text in a box and another box below it where you type the story. You click the start clock button and proceed to type. If you don't want to type all the text, you can stop by clicking the stop the clock button. Obtain your results at http://www.typeonline.co.uk/typingspeed.phpPower Typing offers a free typing test where you click on the start test button. While typing the letters turn red to indicate where mistakes were made. After typing the paragraph a pop up alerts you to results. It informs you of what is acceptable for mistakes and how many wpm you are able to do. If you make a mistake during the test, you are required to go back and fix it before you can go forward.

TypingTest allows you to decide if you want a test between the minutes of: 1, 2 or 3. There's also an option of which text you'd like to type about and choosing between wpm or cpm (Critical Path Method). This website even offers a typing certificate that currently costs just under $10.00. You have to first complete the full typing test, give out a credit card and then receive it in the mail.

There's a typing games section such as playing a game similar to Pac Man but using the keyboard as the controls to improve keyboard memory. They offer Typingmaster Pro for Windows but it only contains a free demo. To have the full version it's just under $40.00 to download and just under $50.00 to receive it by mail. Of course keep in mind these prices may change at any time. Out of all 3 typing tests, I would rate this one as currently the best. http://www.typingtest.com/default.asp?m=1

Triangle Grammar Guide offers an online grammar quiz. You read a couple of sentences and choose from multiple choice the correct answer. It's a quick 5 question quiz that explains in the results why an answer was correct or incorrect. http://www.newsobserver.com/content/media/2008/5/4/TGG-quiz30.index.html

About has a spelling and proofreading test with fifteen questions. There are 4 multiple choice answers to choose from. After each question, a result for the previous question is loaded. This test doesn't require a lot of time. http://homeworktips.about.com/library/quizzes/spelling/bl_spelling_quiz.htm Copyediting.co.uk test requires a decent amount of time. You read 2 paragraphs and write down on a piece of paper the incorrect words. Or if you have some ink to spare, you can print out this test and highlight the incorrect words. Afterwards click below for the answers. KU School of Journalism and Mass Communications also offers the same type of test.