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This is an educational typing tutor game starring Tux, the Linux penguin. It's a free and open-source typing tutor created primarily for children, although adults are likely to find it useful too. It features several different types of gameplay, at a variety of difficulty levels. It is intended to improve words per minute speed of typists. In Fish Cascade you control Tux as he searches for fish to eat. Fish fall from the top of the screen. These fish have letters on them. Unfortunately for Tux, eating a fish with a letter on it will cause his stomach to become ill, so it is up to you to help Tux eat fish. By typing the letters, it will cause them to disappear so tux can chow down on the fish. In Comet Zap you control Tux as he defends the cities from comets. To protect a city from a comet, type the letter on the comet and it will
cause Tux to destroy it with a laser. (In case you wondered, Comet Zap is an adaptation of the *great* math drill game, "Tux, of Math Command"). "Lessons" and "Phrase Typing" are additional typing activities. "Phrase Typing" involves typing of phrases or complete sentences, with measurement of accuracy and typing speed. The current phrases in the default (English) theme are a collection of pangrams (sentences with all 26 letters) as well as some well-known quotes from public domain literature. At some point we will make this easy for teachers to modify, so sentences related to a current study topic might be used. It supports a wide range of languages, including Armenian, Bokmal, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, English, Euskera, French, Spanish, Greek, Jamaican, Lithuanian, Nepalese, Russian, Swedish, Swahili and even a few smaller languages you might not expect to find. |
