Has your organisation ever carried out an assessment of its employees’ keyboard skills?
Today, 95% of business documents are electronic. Most employees, and not just the office based ones, spend significant time at a computer keyboard, especially as the principle means of communication is now email.
Yet around 80% of employees who use a computer at work cannot type efficiently. That means that many are only working at half the speed of which they are capable, so their productivity is seriously compromised.
Everyone can learn to type quickly and accurately. They just need a little help to do so. That’s where we come in.
In just 4 - 6 weeks of regular online desktop-based practice, usually consisting of around 30 minutes per day most days a week, most of your employees will double their speed and improve their accuracy. This will save your organisation huge amounts of time and money and significantly improve the accuracy and professional quality of your business communications.
So take the first step by arranging a quick and simple analysis of your employee’s typing skills. The assessment will take just 5 minutes of their time without them needing to leave their desk and it will provide you with instant results. See page 8 for details.
Then, complete the Productivity Calculator on page 15 to find out how much your organisation could save if your employees were to improve their skills.
“Around 80% of employees who use a computer at work cannot type efficiently”.
Type&Test are arguably the UK’s leading specialists in online touch-typing training. Our courseware and typing assessments are the only ones to have been used over the past 10 years by UK Awarding Bodies to prepare candidates for nationally accredited typing qualifications.
In 2005, I set up the company after I had moved from being a two-finger typist to a touch typist. I learned to touch type because I had begun to realise that, owing to the changing nature of business, I was spending more and more time at my computer. I needed to make sure that I was using that time to its maximum capacity. I thought that if secretaries could learn to touch type on big clunking typewriters back in the old days, why couldn’t I?
I must have saved myself literally thousands of hours since then, as well as thousands of ££££s! I can honestly say that it is one of the most useful skills I have ever learned.
Now my objective is to demonstrate to employers how profitable, efficient and liberating learning to touch type can be. I hope that I can convince you to pursue what is perhaps the simplest and quickest way to boost the productivity of your employees.
Andy Stevenson
Managing Director
“I can honestly say that it is one of the most useful skills I have ever learned”.
Typequick Professional is ideal for employers who are looking for big increases in productivity. The program will teach your employees the keyboard skills required to type fast and accurately, using all their fingers and without looking down at the keyboard, all without them needing to leave their desk.
The course provides helpful encouraging feedback as your employees move through the lessons. It will constantly assess their progress and will create and present additional remedial exercises for each individual as it identifies the keys on which they need more practice.
Users can change the size, colour and style of the fonts in the typing exercises to suit their preferences. As the course is delivered online, they can practice at home as well as in work with their progress recorded in the Typequick learning management system.
Learning to touch type requires regular practise on a ‘little and often’ basis. So your employees will need to commit to regular short practice sessions, but should be able to fit them around their work commitments with ease.
Once they have learned the correct finger positions, Typequick Professional will build up their speed and accuracy through further challenging and engaging exercises. At the end of the course your employees should be able to type accurately at around 40 words per minute at least, with many over time reaching much higher speeds.
To see a sample lesson from the course, click here to reach the course log-in page, then simply click on the ‘sample lesson’ tab.
“Employees will be able to fit short practice sessions around their work commitments with ease”.
Most people have no idea of their typing speed or accuracy level.
‘Skill Evaluator’ is our unique automated typing assessment program. With Skill Evaluator, you can easily assess the speed and accuracy of your employees’ typing skills and see instant results, without them needing to leave their desks.
For just £10 per head or less, we will set your staff an assessment which lasts anything between 2 and 10 minutes – it’s up to you. We can even use your chosen text if, for example, you wanted to use industry specific material.
Skill Evaluator will automatically calculate a result for each individual in terms of speed and accuracy, and from that you can instantly tell who would benefit from some training. Each person will see a report of what they typed, with errors highlighted, and the Typequick Learning Management System will generate an aggregated report for all your employees who have taken part.
For those employees who then embark on the Typequick course, Skill Evaluator can be used as a ‘before and after’ measure, to demonstrate improvement, from which you can go on to assess your return on investment. You can even reward staff who have completed the course and final assessment with a Certificate of Achievement, customised with your organisation’s logo.
Skill Evaluator is also a great tool for use during recruitment exercises, where good typing skills form part of the required skill set.
“Skill Evaluator will automatically calculate a result for each individual and generate a consolidated report”.
Once you have decided how many employees would benefit from improving their typing skills, you are in a position to implement our Typequick Professional courseware solution.
You can choose from a pay-by-user model for small numbers of employees, paying at most £20 per head*.
Or you could opt for an annual licence for larger numbers, with prices as little as £2 per head.
If you choose to include Skill Evaluator for ongoing assessments and in-house certification, then this adds 50% to the price of your courseware purchase.
Our price includes the Typequick Learning Management System, through which you can control user enrolments and monitor course usage and success rates. It also includes full administrative instructions and support via email and telephone during normal office hours.
For an additional fee, we will handle all the administration for you whilst giving you access to progress reports when you want them.
For the latest price list, call us on 01768 enquiries@typeandtest.com
342821 or email us at* All prices exclude VAT.
“Our price includes the Typequick Learning Management System”.
Some individuals learn better if they are given a plan to follow with a clear structure, with feedback and encouragement along the way.
So we have developed our ultimate solution – our ‘Type Faster, Work Smarter’ course. It includes online personal tutoring from an experienced Type&Test tutor for every learner.
The course, which lasts up to 13 weeks, includes the following components:-
And, provided learners follow the course as directed by their tutor, it comes with a money back guarantee.
For more details and a price quotation, email us at enquiries@typeandtest.com or call us on 01768 342821.
* For large numbers of employees, this could be arranged to be delivered to a group through a webinar conference.
“The course includes online personal tutoring for every learner”.
Most employees spend significant amounts of time at the computer keyboard, even if they are not office-based. Emails, reports, letters etc – today we are all expected to be typists!
At one time, the telephone was the most common method of communication in business. Now it is email, by quite a long way. Yet most employees are only typing at around half the speed they are capable of, labouring over the keyboard, prodding away with two fingers and producing emails that are littered with mistakes. If we were still all using the phone as our prime mode of communication, it would be the equivalent of t a l k i n g v e r y s l o w l y!
This wastes huge amounts of time – and money! So why put up with it?
The majority of you organisation’s employees will at least double their speed and improve their accuracy if they learned to touch type. The monetary value of the extra time they would gain by doing so will be enormous when multiplied across your organisation.
You can work this out for yourself by completing the Productivity Calculator alongside. Give it a try. You will be amazed at how valuable touch-typing will prove to be for your organisation.
“Most employees are only typing at around half the speed they are capable of”.
Use this interactive calculator to work out how much your organisation could save if its employees learned to touch type!
Estimated Calculations | Sample Company | Your Company |
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No. of PC based Employees | 20 | |
Weeks worked in a year | 46 | |
Average hourly rate £'s | 15 | |
Hours saved (per employee, per week) |
5 | |
Multiply the above together, this makes the total annual savings... | TOTAL: £69000 |
TOTAL: £ |