Education Elementary students learn keyboard typing ahead of new Common Core tests October 13, 2013 More than 11 years ago Summary ...

Keyboarding, or typing, skills are "essential" to school success, says Orange County school leader. He wants a keyboarding class required for every middle school student.

Here are some of the best free online tools to test your typing speed. You can learn and practice typing on keyboard with these tools.

The test, created by Juerd Waalboer from the Netherlands, records the number of characters, including errors and space, as well as words you can type in a minute.

Public schools in Orange County should make every student learn keyboarding — typing for those of us of a certain age — in middle school, said Bill Sublette, chairman of the Orange Coun… ...