Typing Instructor
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Typing Instructor, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Typing Instructor's own pricing page, checked 8 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| 7-day | $3.95, paid once | 7-day access · 7 days |
| 7-day access | $3.95, paid once | web account · single user · 7 days |
| Monthly | $6.95 a month | web account · single user · monthly |
| 3 Months | $14.95, paid once | web account · single user · 3 months |
| Annual | $29.95 a year | web account · single user · annual; page says save 50% |
| Typing Instructor Gold | $39.99, paid once | PC or Mac download · English or Spanish · one-time purchase |
The facts
Each one read from Typing Instructor's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Access
- The service offers online learning 24/7/365 from locations with internet access and requires no software installation or updates.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Adaptive feedback
- Lessons provide voice instructions, an onscreen keyboard, finger-placement guide hands and immediate feedback while typing.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Audience
- The site describes courses for typists of all ages and skill levels and features a course for ages 8 to 9.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Certificates
- Completing a typing course produces a printable certificate showing the course and words-per-minute result.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Course library
- The web edition offers more than 20 organized typing courses with lessons, practice exercises, tests and unit tests.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Courses
- The site offers over 20 typing courses for typists of different ages and skill levels, with lessons, practice exercises, tests, and unit tests.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Desktop requirements
- Gold lists Windows 8/10/11, 580 MB disk space, 800x600 display and sound, while Mac support is listed for macOS 10.12 through 12.4 with 580 MB disk space.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation
- A seven-page quick-start guide covers course selection, tests, arcade settings, practice materials and result analysis.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Dynamic learning
- The desktop product evaluates weak typing areas and automatically creates lessons targeted at those weaknesses.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Feedback
- Lessons include voiceover instructions, an onscreen keyboard, guide hands for finger placement, and real-time progress feedback.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Funding data
- Crunchbase identifies Individual Software as a private, for-profit company and does not expose a founding year or funding amount on the public profile.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Games
- Its arcade contains multi-level games that can restrict play to keys already learned and adjust difficulty settings.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Languages
- Typing Instructor Gold and Platinum support English and Spanish instruction.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Licence and API
- The reviewed official pages describe commercial web, desktop and network products, custom content and private-label deployment but publish no open-source licence, public API or SDK documentation.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: compatibility failures
- Steam includes a reviewer report that the program stopped running after a later system change, described as a dead executable.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: dated software
- Steam reviewers criticize the Platinum release as visually dated, with hard-to-read progress graphs and old text references.checked 15 Oct 2026
The company
- Company founded
- LinkedIn states that Individual Software was founded in 1981.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company headquarters
- LinkedIn lists Individual Software headquarters in Livermore, California.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company legal name
- The maker identifies itself as Individual Software Inc., and Typing Instructor is listed as its trademark.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company size
- LinkedIn lists the company size as 11–50 employees.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 1981checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Livermore, California, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2026
Money
- Custom plans
- Gold lets users create custom lessons and tests, choose a goal WPM and assemble personal typing plans.checked 15 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Device requirement
- The site says the app can be purchased on a mobile device but requires a device with a keyboard.checked 8 Oct 2026
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