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One of the goals of learning touch typing is to type not looking at the keyboard. The on-screen keyboard helps you in achieving this.

The on-screen keyboard reflects the state of the actual keyboard.
It displays the current keyboard layout and the state of all the keys. There is no need to look at the actual keyboard—you see it on the screen.

Swiss-German keyboard. The right Shift is pressed.

Moreover, the labels on the keys of your actual keyboard may not represent the characters you get (e.g. when you switch to Spanish or Dvorak keyboard layout while using the US keyboard). Looking at the actual keyboard will not help in such cases. This is when the on-screen keyboard becomes invaluable.... read more