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Excel Keyboarding Game

Chris Gemignani

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.

Excel Keyboarding Game.xls

If you’re viewing this in a feedreader, click though to see a screencast of the game.

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  • phil pfeifer

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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.