Excel Keyboarding Game
By Chris Gemignani
March 15, 2006
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You can get a lot faster with Excel if you learn to use keyboard shortcuts instead of the mouse. Here's a fun Excel-based game that we use at JuiceCo to teach one basic keyboarding skill. I guarantee this will make you better and faster with Excel.
Click picture to view video. The audio seems to be infested by aliens and drops out midway through. Many apologies.
If you're viewing this in a feedreader, click though to see a screencast of the game.
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5 comments
phil pfeifer said:
Instead of cntrl and arrow, I use end with arrows. It is surprising how few people know how these tricks. I call it the "roller coaster" phenomenon when, instead, people over and undershoot the end of a block when trying to paint with the mouse.
Chris said:
My best times are:
Race 1: 0.59 seconds
Race 2: 1.13 seconds
Race 3: 1.44 seconds
Race 4: 1.67 seconds
Race 5: 4.77 seconds
Race 6: 8.80 seconds
Race 7: 13.20 seconds
Race 8: 4.84 seconds
Anyone doing better?
-Chris
Josh said:
Oh, please make it so your webcasts don't auto-start!!!
Also, the flash app seems to be capturing every time I hit space bar. So, as I type this comment, it starts and stops the recording each time I hit space between words. AAAAHHH!! (Safari 2.0.3)
Chris said:
Josh,
You must be really sick of hearing my voice by now. I just checked Windows Firefox and Windows IE and the clips _do not_ autostart (which is good). So, I've localized my abuse to Mac users. Very sorry.
Yaniv said:
This game doesn't seem to be showing up on this post, and I don't see a working hyperlink anywhere. I tried to copy paste into my browser (firefox) http://www.juiceanalytics.com/flash/excel_keyboard_race,444,324
and I got a page not found error.
Thanks for reposting the link if it's still up.
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