Has anyone tried a variety of these tools? Which ones work best?
First of all try to define your problem.
- What is your current typing speed?
- Can you "blind type"? If you are not sure, then try to cover your keyboard and type. How about punctuation, numbers and shift+number combinations?
- What is your accuracy?
ad. 1: If you can type over 70WPM then ignore my post, you know more than me.
ad. 2: If you cannot type without looking at keys, then get blank keycaps.
ad. 3: If your accuracy is below 98% then slow down, and work on it. Speed without accuracy is wasted.
Amphetype is very good tool, its statistics part has no match. It shows not only mistyped words, but also words where you hesitate.
Unfortunately it looks to be abandoned.
- Its text import feature allows you to read texts with non type-able characters, that leaves you stuck during exercises.
- There is no way to exclude proper names from statistics.
Keyhero gives you some feedback on types of your errors, that is very good.
10fastfingers allows you to exercise on most common words, but do not mistake your 10fastfingers speed with your real typing speed, they can be very different. No feed back on types of mistakes you make.
Typeracer: its competitive, but it does nothing to show you what you are doing wrong.
Keybr: too much fancy graphics, too little feedback.