The SpeedSkin UltraSlim 2nd Generation is a blank, orange, touch-sensitive polyurethane keyboard cover designed to prevent "peeking" during typing instruction, improving speed and accuracy by encouraging users to keep their eyes on the screen. It fits most standard PC, laptop, and Chromebook keyboards, particularly newer models from around 2020-2024, and can be easily applied and removed.
Key Features & Benefits:
No-Peek Design:Covers only the letter, number, and punctuation keys, leaving function and format keys visible.
Touch-Sensitive Polyurethane:Made from a durable, no-latex material that is resistant to wear and tear.
Classroom Ready:The bright orange color enhances visibility in classrooms, and the covers work with any keyboarding software or textbook.
Easy Application:The cover applies and removes in one simple step.
Tactile Home Row:Includes home row indicators to provide a starting point for typing.
Durable & Washable:Laboratory-tested to over 1 million impacts and can be washed with mild soap and cold water.
Compatibility:Fits a wide range of 2023/2024 era laptops and Chromebooks from brands like Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung(See below for compatible laptops and Chomebook computers.)
SpeedSkin 2nd Generation Covers for ChromeBooks, 2nd Generation Laptops & MacBooks. Fits 95% of the 2020/2024 school years name brand Chromebooks laptops, shallow keyboards and MacBooks, including but not limited to the following:
Acer
Aspi Laptop
Spin 5
Swift 5
Vero
CB Plus 511 & 514
ASUS
AIO V24/DA
Chromebook Flip C433
Chromebook Flip C436
Zenbook 14" & 15.6"
14" Laptop
CM14
14" CB Plus
Rog Zephyrus 16" & G14 14"
Vivo Book 14" & 17"
NOT COMPATIBLE WITH CM 30
Apple (Mac)
MacBook Air M1 & M2
MacBook Pro 14"
MacBook Air 13" & 15"
iMac
iPad Pro 12.9" & 13"
Magic Keyboard
NOT COMPATIBLE WITH 11" iPad Pro or Air M2
Bravo 15, 15.6"
Dell
Desktop M01
G 15, 15.6"
Inspiron 3000
Inspiron 7000
Inspiron 14", 15" & 16"
Touch-Screen All-in-One
NOT COMPATIBLE WITH Dell Wired Keyboard - Black KB216
NOT COMPATIBLE WITH Dell Wireless Keyboard - KM3322W
NOT COMPATIBLE WITH Dell XPS Plus or XP 13", 14" or 16"
NOT COMPATIBLE WITH Dell Latitude 5420
Envy
Touch, 2-in-1, 14", 15.6" & 16" Laptop
Google
Google Pixelbook Go
Hewlett Packard (HP)
Chromebook 11S
Chromebook 14"
Chromebook X360
Chromebook Plus X360 14"
Envy X360 & 2 in 1 14" & 16" Touch Screen
NIMBATUS
Pavilion Desktop TP01
Pavillion 14" & 27" Touch, All-in-One
Spectra X360 & 2 in 1 16"
14", 15.6" & 17.3" Laptop
19.5" All-in-One
23.8" Touch-Screen All-in-One
Omnibook Ultra Flip-CoPilot 14"
Victus 15.6"
Omen 16.1"
NOT COMPATIBLE WITH Chromebook Plus 15.6"
NOT COMPATIBLE WITH 27" Full HD
Lenovo
Chromebook C340-15
IdeaCentre 3
Idea Pad 3i CB 15"
Idea Pad Flex3 12" & 5i CB Plus 14"
Slim 7i, 16" & CB 14"
LOQ 15.6"
Yoga 6, 7, 7i & 9i 14" & 16"
Legion Pro 5i 16"
Flex 5 14"
NOT COMPATIBLE WITH "THINKPAD" SERIES
NOT COMPATIBLE WITH lenovo 300 USB Keyboard
NOT COMPATIBLE WITH lenovo CB Duet 11" or 9"
NOT COMPATIBLE WITH lenovo Idea Pad 15.6"
Logitech
MX Keys
Microsoft
Surface Pro
Surface Pro CoPilot + PC 11" & 13" & 15"
Surface Laptop 13.5", 14.4" & 15"
Surface Laptop Studio 2 14"
NOT COMPATIBLE WITH Laptop Go ort Go 3
Samsung
Galaxy Book Flex A 13.3"
Galaxy Chromebook & Chromebook Plus
Galaxy Book 4, 14.6" & 15.6"
Spectra
Touch, 2-in-1 16" (Not 14")
Victus 15.6"
If your keyboard looks like this, choose the 2nd Generation UltraSlim.
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IS COVERING THE KEYBOARD WHEN LEARNING TO TYPE BENEFICIAL?
Covering the keyboard while learning to keyboard is a popular strategy for teaching touch typing.
Overall, the research says that students who can’t see their keyboards while they use keyboarding software to learn to keyboard will learn significantly faster than those who did not use covers.
Many traditional typing programs will advocate the covering of hands right from the outset, to encourage touch-typing to develop more quickly.
Skins are just as easy to remove, making them useful for giving students multiple ways to practice even with a limited amount of time.
One of the most difficult aspects of computer keyboarding for students is to look mainly at the screen, rather than the fingers, while typing.
Typing covers are a must have tool to aid in learning keyboarding. Typing covers prevent the user from looking at the keyboard, thus improving touch typing efficiency. No keyboarding class should be without typing covers. Learn more about the benefits of typing covers.
WHAT DO THE EXPERTS SAY?
by Leigh E. Zeitz, Ph.D.
University of Northern Iowa
May 25, 2008
Learning to key without looking at the keyboard is a difficult thing to do. This is especially difficult if your learners have taught themselves to type and developed “bad habits.” On of the most prominent “bad habits” that novice keyboarders learn is looking at the keyboard while typing. In response to this need, vendors have developed keyboard covers (or skins) which hide the letters on the keys from students. But does this work?
The $64 question is “Will it help my students learn to touch type faster if we install keyboard covers?”
Jeny Buchanansaid:
My students have successfully used SpeedSkins for years. We start with third graders and they find them challenging but at the end SS get the job done. This year our keyboards have slightly changed (HP touchscreen PC’s) and I am afraid our SpeedSkins won’t properly cover our keys anymore. I hope this can be fixed soon. Let me know if a new SS is coming out soon.
Debra Reschsaid:
Thank you for doing this. Keyboarding is often viewed as boring, unnecessary drudgery. Many “new” computer teachers want to skip this step and move on to the “fun” stuff. As a former business education teacher turned technology facilitator, I have never changed my belief in the importance of students learning to properly keyboard to obtain fluency, but I admit that I have backed off for the past couple of years. It seemed like a losing battle. Recently, I’ve started hearing rumblings of recognition that just maybe keyboarding does have some value and that kids don’t come out of the womb knowing how to keyboard. Hopefully, the tide is changing back a bit.
Janet Burzyksaid:
I found this blog very interesting and could relate to some of the comments. I too was a Business teacher and now a Computer Tech. teacher and feel keyboarding is almost out the window. I use to teach keyboarding at the college level and now can barely fit it into my curriculum at the middle school level. For some reason, people feel that students are just born to know how to type properly. Of course this is not the case and practice is the only way to learn how to type properly and quickly. I still am a firm believer that we need to keep keyboarding in the curriculum and even at the high school level!!
Leigh Zeitz
Thanks for the feedback on the Speedskins. They can be quite useful. Did you see the research that I posted that showed keyboard covers were useful for the more standard keyboarding programs but the students who were using the game-based programs got frustrated with covers. They were more interested in winning the game so in some cases they removed the covers.
HOW DURABLE ARE THE SPEEDSKIN PRODUCTS?
This NEW UltraSlim Gen-2 cover is uniquely priced for school-wide and district-wide BULK / high-volume purchases over 500 covers up to 40%+ discounts! Purchases of 500+ Chromebook or Laptop covers are shipped in 50-pack units with one, plastic, shipping tray, and an instructional insert.
SpeedSkin's NEWUltraSlim Gen-2 coverfits all standard, brand-name Chromebook and Chromebook-style laptops as listed (and most newer, standard, laptop keyboards): Dell, HP, Lenovo, Acer, Asus, and others. The NEWUltraSlim Gen-2 cover also fits all standard, Chromebook, white-label, after-market-brand laptop keyboards.
SpeedSkin's NEWUltraSlim Gen-2 cover works with any typing software.
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