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Portable RapidTyping Changelog

What's new in Portable RapidTyping 5.4

Jan 27, 2021
  • Current lesson:
  • Added color coding on the Tips bar.
  • Fixed wrong assignment of next course.
  • Fixed resetting custom background and text color after starting a new course.
  • Fixed the incorrect message «Change system keyboard language» when changing the language course.
  • Statistics:
  • Fixed export of statistics of one group or student in HTML and XML formats.
  • Result window:
  • Fixed missing key labels in keystroke diagram.
  • Fixed transparent space under lesson grades.
  • Courses:
  • Added courses for Arabic keyboards (thanks to Mohamed Embabi).
  • Intermediate and advanced English courses are available for Indian keyboard.
  • Wizard window:
  • Fixed updating of the virtual keyboard when changing the language.
  • Also:
  • Added Vietnamese program language (thanks to Hoang Duong).
  • Fixed uninstallation using the «Apps and features» command in Windows 10.

New in Portable RapidTyping 5.3 (Oct 19, 2018)

  • Current lesson:
  • When a user finishes the final lesson of the current course, the next course will start automatically.
  • Student list:
  • Moving students between groups. («Drag-and-Drop» or «Ctrl+X» and «Ctrl+V» shortcuts)
  • Statistics:
  • Added «Speed» and «Accuracy» markers on the diagram current item's label.
  • Added «Shift» and «Ctrl» hot-keys for item selection on the lesson statistics diagram.
  • Lesson editor:
  • Moving lessons between sections and courses.
  • «Create new section» command added.
  • «Properties» window has been deleted from the «Lesson editor».
  • The «Save statistics of the incomplete lesson» has been moved from «At the close application» section into the «Lesson Duration» section. Also, this option is disabled when «Do not stop the lesson» is selected.
  • The «Save all» menu command saves all courses for all keyboard layouts.
  • Also:
  • The «Confirmation» message box appears if the user does not have right-access to the Student/Lesson folders.
  • Check-box «Apply to all» has been added to the «Confirmation» window when existing groups, students or courses are inserted.
  • More than 50 bugs have been fixed.

New in Portable RapidTyping 5.2 (Aug 24, 2016)

  • Rapid Typing is now also available as 64-bit Windows program
  • User logout without closing application
  • Teacher creates new student accounts with own lesson settings
  • Speed and Accuracy diagrams can be displayed together or separately
  • Lesson Goal is displayed on the Speed and Accuracy diagrams
  • Result window and student diagrams are displayed without delay
  • Using multi select to assign courses to a group
  • Use native digits for numeric formatting defined by the system's regional settings
  • The full support for the Right to Left languages
  • Persian course for experienced students from Iran, created by Sayyid AliReza
  • Rapid Typing Italian distributive with full Italian localisation(including Help) created, www.rapidtyping.com/it
  • Many performance improvements

New in Portable RapidTyping 5.1.647.121 (Dec 22, 2015)

  • Ergonomics interface design in the Windows 10 style
  • Now, RapidTyping suggests the shortest way of typing the composite characters
  • Application now launches faster over the local network in classrooms
  • New French express-course for advanced users by François Goethals

New in Portable RapidTyping 5.0.108 Build 466 (Nov 24, 2015)

  • Added the support of characters entered using the Alt+Num key combination.
  • Updated the "Login" dialog window where the group/student name can be entered into a corresponding field or selected from a list. All of the entered data is validated.
  • You can now select several groups and assign the courses to all of them.
  • Fixed a number of bugs in the classroom, including an update to the current lesson on a students' machine if a teacher has deleted or modified the lesson or course with this lesson; the results are properly exported to PDF on Windows 10 systems and many other minor bugs.

New in Portable RapidTyping 5.0.107 Build 381 (Oct 29, 2015)

  • Added the Italian UI language.
  • Fixed minor bugs.

New in Portable RapidTyping 5.0.106 Build 364 (Oct 20, 2015)

  • Fixed bugs that occurred while working with touch-sensitive displays.
  • Disabled the possibility to work with a virtual keyboard using a mouse on systems without a touch-sensitive display.
  • Fixed a bug with the virtual AZERTY keyboard resetting to QWERTY during French lessons.
  • Fixed minor bugs, including course renaming with a double click, changing the width of the student list window, etc.
  • Added the Albanian UI language.

New in Portable RapidTyping 5.0.105 Build 339 (Sep 16, 2015)

  • compatibility with Windows 10 improved;
  • installation on Linux-Wine improved;
  • French-Belgian courses added;
  • the highlight of main menu item is fixed;
  • Show/Hide button on the Student List is added;
  • Uzbek language added;

New in Portable RapidTyping 5.0.336.101 Beta (Sep 14, 2015)

  • Update interface language: Chinese, Chinese-Taiwan French, Polish, Portuguese-Brazil, Spanish, German, Turkish.

New in Portable RapidTyping 5.0.327.99 Beta (Feb 27, 2015)

  • Add Finnish courses
  • Update English-Advanced course
  • Bug fixing

New in Portable RapidTyping 5.0.99 Beta (Feb 5, 2015)

  • Update Help files
  • Add Russian Help
  • Add new statistics parameter Done
  • Language files is updated (Kurdish interface language added);
  • To change the Section edit field in the Lesson Properties to Edit+Select control
  • In command line to add the ability to take the absolute path for templates files
  • Add a percent mark to the HTML template header
  • Bug fixing
  • To improve Results window design, to add multi-column context menu to choose the current lesson from a long list
  • Language files is updated, Kurdish interface language added

New in Portable RapidTyping 5.0.98 Beta (Dec 19, 2014)

  • Statistics:
  • export the student/group statistics, in PDF, HTML, XML, CSV formats
  • new statistics parameter: Net Speed
  • new statistics parameters: Fixed words, Fixed characters
  • coloring in table the good/bad results
  • Lesson Editor:
  • new course options: lesson duration
  • new course options: the end of the lesson
  • new course options: at the close application

New in Portable RapidTyping 5.0.84.43 Beta (Mar 27, 2014)

  • Current lesson:
  • speed and accuracy for current lesson in real time;
  • remaining and elapsed lesson time;
  • passed lessons marked in the Lesson menu;
  • support for multi-language lessons;
  • support for laptop keyboards;
  • Student Panel:
  • added support for student groups;
  • different courses assigned to different student groups;
  • student password;
  • student statistics from teacher's computer( or system administrator );
  • now, convenient to add big number of students;
  • import/export the student/group statistics;
  • Statistics Panel:
  • overall lesson rate added;
  • statistics for each symbol/key ( speed, error, time-out ) typed added;
  • statistics for keystrokes added ( includes the system keys type( Shift, Alt, BackSpace ), repeated error keystrokes );
  • preview the course, lesson and char/key statistics together;
  • Lesson editor:
  • undo/redo for lesson edit;
  • split lesson by character, words, sentence, paragraph;
  • import/export lesson course( including course options );
  • new course option: customise definitions of good/bad results;
  • new course option: customise metronome options;
  • new course option: show/hide metronome;
  • new course option: show/hide the Result window in the final lesson;
  • new course option: show/hide the lesson text highlight;
  • new course option: enable/disable the BackSpace key;
  • Courses:
  • English courses updated;
  • Greek courses updated;
  • French courses added;
  • Hungarian courses added;
  • Netherlands courses added;

New in Portable RapidTyping 4.9.4 Beta (Aug 26, 2013)

  • Current lesson:
  • speed and accuracy for current lesson in real time;
  • remaining and elapsed lesson time;
  • passed lessons marked in the Lesson menu;
  • support for multi-language lessons;
  • support for laptop keyboards;
  • Student panel:
  • added support for student groups;
  • different courses assigned to different student groups;
  • student password;
  • student statistics from teacher's computer( or system administrator );
  • now, convenient to add big number of students;
  • import/export the student/group statistics;
  • Statistics Panel:
  • overall lesson rate added;
  • statistics for each symbol/key ( speed, error, time-out ) typed added;
  • statistics for keystrokes added ( includes the system keys type( Shift, Alt, BackSpace ), repeated error keystrokes );
  • preview the course, lesson and char/key statistics together;
  • Lesson editor:
  • undo/redo for lesson edit;
  • split lesson by character, words, sentence, paragraph;
  • import/export lesson course( including course options );
  • new course option: customise definitions of good/bad results;
  • new course option: customise metronome options;
  • new course option: show/hide metronome;
  • new course option: show/hide the Result window in the final lesson;
  • new course option: show/hide the lesson text highlight;
  • new course option: enable/disable the BackSpace key;
  • Courses:
  • English courses updated;
  • Greek courses updated;
  • French courses added;
  • Hungarian courses added;
  • Netherlands courses added;

New in Portable RapidTyping 4.6.5 (Aug 2, 2012)

  • The problems with Bold font, on some non-English version of Windows, is fixed;
  • The tabulation symbols is shown always in the lesson;
  • English course for experts updated;
  • Greek course for experts updated( tabulation symbols added ); thanks to geogeo.gr
  • German, Greek and Russian interface language updated;
  • Other minor bugs fixed;

New in Portable RapidTyping 4.6.4 (Aug 2, 2012)

  • Lesson rendering engine improved;
  • Keyboard rendering engine improved;
  • Non-rectangular keys on the virtual keyboard fixed;
  • Visual bugs on some video-cards fixed;
  • Options section improved;
  • Other minor bugs fixed;

New in Portable RapidTyping 4.6.3 (Jul 2, 2012)

  • Metronome improved ( strongly depend on the experience of users );
  • Lesson Mode "Requires the right character type": Pressing BACKSPACE deletes only the last error ( without moving cursor );
  • The button-link to the "Typing Games" page( "About" dialog box ) added;
  • "Right-hand" finger scheme fixed; thanks to Wim De Backer, modemadvies.be
  • Visual bugs on some video-cards fixed;
  • The English-USA interface language added;
  • Other minor bugs fixed;

New in Portable RapidTyping 4.6.2 (May 23, 2012)

  • New version of RapidTyping Manual added.
  • Farsi interface language updated.
  • other minor bugs fixed;

New in Portable RapidTyping 4.6.1 (Apr 30, 2012)

  • Typing test:
  • Expert courses are available for the following keyboard layouts:
  • Arabic ASDF Eastern with Arabic-Indic digits;
  • German (Dvorak Type)
  • German (NEO)
  • German (de_ergo)
  • German (Latin1 without dead keys)
  • Greek (220)
  • Greek (220)
  • Greek (319
  • Greek (220) Latin
  • Greek (319) Latin
  • Greek Latin
  • Greek Polytonic
  • Russian (Typewriter);
  • US English Table for IBM Arabic 238_L;
  • Other:
  • Latvian interface language added; thanks to Anete
  • other minor bugs fixed;

New in Portable RapidTyping 4.6 (Apr 13, 2012)

  • Typing test:
  • BiDi algorithm added( full support Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Hindi, Sanskrit, Khmer, Thai and other languages );
  • in current version the real font can be chosen for lesson;
  • bug for missed space character at the end of the line( in Multi-edit mode ) fixed;
  • Arabic beginner and expert typing course updated. ( requires lesson reinstall )
  • English expert typing course updated. ( requires lesson reinstall )
  • Other:
  • Windows 2000 compatibility restored;
  • RapidTyping news buttons for Google+, Facebook, Twitter added; ( under "About" )
  • saving splitter position added;
  • Arabic interface language updated;
  • Greek interface language updated;
  • other minor bugs fixed;

New in Portable RapidTyping 4.5 (Feb 4, 2012)

  • Typing Test View:
  • auto-wrap feature added;
  • tabulation support added;
  • line break support added;
  • special marks (including Tab, Line Break, Space) improved (smooth, scaling);
  • special marks in right left languages inverted;
  • Typing lesson editing
  • import lesson text in .rtf format feature added
  • insert line break and tabulation lesson feature added
  • when inserting text into lesson the check symbols on keyboard added
  • the "New Lesson - (#)" label added by default to "New Lesson" dialog
  • when lesson editing or selecting the fast reaction on virtual keyboard and lesson property added
  • when you type a character in lesson the letter is show immediately on virtual keyboard and the property table updates immediately
  • support the lesson size until 4Gb added
  • Virtual keyboard
  • translation control keys added
  • auto-wrap the long control keys' names ( ex. Num Lock ) added
  • Typing Lessons:
  • English expert typing course updated. Tabulation and line break marks added. (requires lessons reinstall)
  • Russian expert typing course updated. Tabulation and line break marks added. (requires lessons reinstall)
  • Interface Translation:
  • French language updated
  • Greek language updated
  • Chinese Traditional language updated
  • German language updated
  • Russian language updated
  • Other:
  • when choosing to continue the lesson with "do nothing" selected, the key is now highlighted, after making mistake a correctly;

New in Portable RapidTyping 4.4 (Dec 28, 2011)

  • Typing lesson editing:
  • Drag & Drop function for lesson list editor added;
  • context menu in Lesson Editor added;
  • Cut, Copy and Paste functions in context menu in Lesson Editor added;
  • Virtual keyboard:
  • touch screen support added;
  • keys under cursor( or finger in touchscreen mode ) now highlighted;
  • new highlight toggle feature for Control key( Shift, Ctrl, Alt );
  • Typing test statistics:
  • percentage ratio of errors for wrong letters typed for the whole lesson is shown;
  • Languages:
  • Traditional Chinese interface language updated ( thank you Robert Lee );
  • Greek interface language updated ( thank you www.geogeo.gr );
  • Russian interface language updated ( thank you Tatiana Belous );
  • Other:
  • arranging the application titlebar for left & right position( with languages ) added;
  • refreshing the application titlebar after interface language changed;
  • other minor bugs fixed.

New in Portable RapidTyping 4.3 (Dec 1, 2011)

  • delay with selecting statistics cells for large statistics reports fixed;
  • keys can be highlighted individually in statistics view ( lesson tab );
  • confirmation box for removing selected lesson(s) added;
  • saving (multi)selection in statistics view ( course/ lesson tabs ) added;
  • inversion of selection in statistics view added;
  • all error keys can be highlighted using Ctrl+A in statistics view;
  • double-click to lesson statistics cells to show lesson letters table;
  • removing first lesson bug fixed;
  • bottom panel in statistics view and editor view reduced;
  • last selected item in editor view fixed;
  • lesson text color enhanced;
  • background music bug fixed;
  • button focus bug fixed;
  • other minor bugs fixed;

New in Portable RapidTyping 4.2 (Nov 14, 2011)

  • added the Greek course
  • added support for the 680x420 screens
  • added support screen rotation
  • added the "blank" lesson background
  • added the word count in the lessons editor
  • moved the "Show/Hide keyboard" option to the user level page
  • fixed the delay for loading the course on the weak video cards on Windows 7
  • fixed minimize/maximize bug for left, right or top Task Bar
  • fixed splitter bug for maximized window
  • fixed some minor bugs

New in Portable RapidTyping 4.1 (Nov 14, 2011)

  • added Windows Themes support ( the contrast schemes, big fonts, not-system fonts support )
  • added the finger scheme for Anti-RSI layout( Two hands #6 )( thanks to Robert Boari )
  • added the changing of the statistics parameters on the Results dialog box
  • improved common application performance
  • some user interface improvements
  • fixed bug with Greek accents;( thanks to Sotiris Theodosopoulos )
  • fixed some minor bugs

New in Portable RapidTyping 4.0 (Nov 14, 2011)

  • Added multi-line support;
  • Added support of the Alt+Shift+key;
  • Improved running speed ( including running by LAN and Flash card );
  • Improved user interface.
  • Multi-line support;

New in Portable RapidTyping 3.4.3 (Dec 24, 2010)

  • Added the BackSpace key support;
  • Added modes for continue lesson:
  • "Requires the fixing the wrong characters";
  • "Requires the right character type",
  • "No requirements";
  • Speed up the startup application:
  • Updated Chinese Traditional translation ( thanks to Robert Lee );

New in Portable RapidTyping 3.3.6 (Nov 22, 2010)

  • Added Tips panel for beginner;
  • Added the lesson creating from file(s)
  • Added full German lesson course;
  • Added full Arabic lesson course;
  • Added the silent install mode;
  • Updated the German interface translation.
  • Fixed the font char-set bug in some languages;
  • Fixed some controls in the right-left interface.

New in Portable RapidTyping 3.3 (Sep 14, 2010)

  • Added Arabic interface language; Thanks to Ibraheem Saed
  • Fixed bug with right-left text direction on the Arabic and Hebrew keyboard layout;
  • Fixed visual bug with pictures in the lesson window on some video-cards;
  • Removed a repeated sounds on the Shift key;
  • Updated Chines Traditional interface language;
  • Updated Bosnian interface language;

New in Portable RapidTyping 3.2.9 (Jul 17, 2010)

  • Added typing lesson background schemes;
  • Added support the right-left languages in the typing lessons;
  • Improved work on older video cards.
  • Fixed the running bug on the some Windows version.

New in Portable RapidTyping 3.2.7 (Jun 30, 2010)

  • Added Greek interface language.
  • Updated Chinese Traditional interface language.
  • Updated Bulgarian interface language.
  • Updated Farsi interface language.
  • Fixed bug with system context menu ( by Alt+Enter ).
  • Fixed bug with label and the numbers on "Results" dialog box on the left are in WPM.
  • Fixed the running bug on the Windows XP SP2.

New in Portable RapidTyping 3.2.5 (Jun 16, 2010)

  • Added Farsi interface language;
  • Added support right-left interface;
  • Added the control "Sound" in the main window;
  • Added the background music;
  • Added more 30 sound effects;
  • Added the mode of the random choose of sound effect;
  • Added support of the sound schemes.

New in Portable RapidTyping 3.2 (May 12, 2010)

  • Added icons for marking of numpad/mainpad lessons;
  • Added dialogs "Lesson Properties", "Section Properties";
  • Added 99 colors for interface themes;
  • Fixed bugs of user course editing;
  • Fixed disappearance of the translation in the dialog "Options";
  • Fixed visual bug on the splitter;
  • Fixed sound-driver bug on some versions of the Windows 7

New in Portable RapidTyping 3.1.5 Beta (Apr 21, 2010)

  • added Copy & Paste menu to the Lesson Editor;
  • fixed restoring of Lesson Editor tabs state;
  • added the system key names on the virtual keyboard;
  • fixed saving some user files under the Vista/Windows 7( require full reinstall for version 3.0 and 3.1 );
  • added dialog "Course Properties";
  • fixed highlight of virtual keyboard in the lesson editor;
  • added numeric pad typing lessons;
  • added numeric virtual keyboard;
  • fixed import bugs of user lessons from version 2;
  • fixed rename user lesson bug;

New in Portable RapidTyping 3.1.1 (Apr 15, 2010)

  • added the full courses for Dvorak, Dvorak left hand, Dvorak right hand layouts.
  • added Albanian translation. Thanks to Artur Lugu, Teola Shkodra, Loreta Tomaj.
  • added keyboard auto-detect.
  • added a new keyboard types.
  • improved the basic and main courses( corrected and added lessons for all keyboard types ).
  • added welcome message on the start lesson.
  • updated the dialog buttons.
  • fixed bug with updating of the 'Current language' caption on the dialog 'Options'.
  • fixed bug with coloring menu on the dialog 'Options'.
  • changed color of the current lesson text( lighter now ).
  • fixed memory leaks.

New in Portable RapidTyping 2.9 (Jun 3, 2009)

  • Added: themes of dialogs;
  • Fixed: minor bugs;

New in Portable RapidTyping 2.5 (Jan 2, 2009)

  • - Chinese( Taiwan ) interface
  • - full support Unicode interface
  • - Minor bugs are fixed