Skippy is a typing utility that will assist you in typing faster with less effort. It is the perfect typing aid for one handed typing and for people with a limited hand function. It is used in conjunction with KeyVit and DocReader by ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) users, people with dyslexia and anyone who is in need of assistive and adapted software to speed up typing. Skippy has been specifically designed with accesibility and ease of use in mind. As a typing assistant you can use Skippy in every Windows program including word processors, email and chat software, web browsers, databases and spread sheets

Skippy's advanced word prediction can save about fifty percent of the normal amount of keystrokes. Its word prediction can be used for assistive typing in every text-based Windows application. Whenever the beginning of a word is typed, Skippy presents a list of words that begin with the already typed character(s). When ‘con’ is typed, for instance, Skippy suggests words beginning with the prefix ‘con’: condition, consider, considered, continue, continued, contrary, considerable. Every time an additional character is typed, the list of words is updated. Skippy places these words in the word prediction list based on their frequency of occurrence in the texts the program has learned.

The suggestions after typing ‘t’, ‘a’, and ‘b’.

Select the word you want to insert into the text from the list of suggestions presented. To insert the word, only one keystroke is needed. Once a word has been chosen, Skippy will also automatically add a space to the inserted word. When a complete word has been typed, Skippy predicts the following word. The program bases these suggestions on its knowledge about word pairs (i.e. sequences of two words). As soon as a word (e.g. ‘we’) is inserted, information about these word pairs starts playing a role for Skippy. Without one letter typed, Skippy tries to predict the next word you want to type (the words ‘have’ and 'are’ are likely to follow ‘we’, so ‘have’ and ‘are’ will be in the list).