Master Key is a typing tutor that uses the standard OS interface wherever possible, helps you improve your typing skills. Learn to type or improve your typing skills using our drills or any plain text files. Jump into the challenging ParaTyper game to keep it interesting and fun.
The main objective is of course to teach typing or help typists improve their speed. In so doing Master Key is written to do this for a broad audience of home users, school users, children 7 and up and adults, Macintosh and Windows users, networked computers with accounts or individual computers, and to do any combination of these equally well to the highest quality level without making any compromises.
Master Key is the most versatile typing tutor on any platform because it has been developed with customers at home and in schools for over 8 years. Kept completely modern, Master Key uses the standard interface respective to Mac or Windows so it never looks like a port or afterthought on one platform.
You can learn to type on a new keyboard such as QWERTY, Dvorak, or Colemak or improve your typing skills using our drills or any plain text files. Tracking mastery progress and playing the ParaTyper game keeps any user interested in progressing their typing skills well past 40 words per minute.

Master Key Features:
1. Progressive drills for QWERTY, Dvorak, AZERTY, and QWERTZ keyboards

2. Individual Scoring and History
Each user gets a Pupil file which contains the detailed history of the Pupil's typing performance. In addition the log can be saved and the graph and log can be printed. See 6. The History Window

3. Mastery Goal and Certificate Printout
The status of your Mastery and what is required for Mastery are presented in the History window and a summary of the status of mastery for each drill appears in the main window.

4. ParaTyper Game
Alternate your routine of drills with a challenging and truly fun typing game.

5. Type Downloadable Books
Put a book you downloaded from Project Gutenberg, or any other long plain text file, in the Drills folder. Master Key will paginate the book so you can pick a page at a time to do as a drill or use in ParaTyper.

6. Create Your Own Drills
The Drill Editor allows you to edit existing drills or create new ones. It features key vocabulary filtering while typing or pasting text and the ability to write your own typing tips.

7. Multiple Class Support with Class Editor and Class Reports
Pupils may be divided into classes and Drills may be divided into Units so that an entire school may leave all the Pupil and Drill files in one file structure.

8. Support for Centralized Files on the Network
Master Key can share a large centralized set of Pupil files and Drills with other users on an file-sharing network, allowing any user to use any lab computer whether Mac or Windows.

9. Rules and Options
The Teacher can can turn several abilities on and off for Pupils. And users can have their own subset of options for Display and Sound.

10. Two-tier Password System
Passwords for both Pupils and the Teacher can be turned on and off. The Teacher password is a master key to all Pupil files. Teachers can change their passwords and decide whether or not Pupils can change their passwords.

Limitations:
* limited number of drills available

The license of this software is Free Trial Software, the price is $18.00, you can free download and get a free trial.