Writer of the system's teaching technique, McIntosh's company AID Systems subsequently commissioned Ross Mitchell of Blue Sky Industries to program Typequick into C programming language. McIntosh's aim was to speed up the learning process, thereby teaching apprehensive tech novices how to use keyboards more efficiently and confidently, while helping experienced touch-typists improve their accuracy and speed; a secondary use of the software was in helping established users unlearn poor habits like two-fingered hunt and pecking (searching for individual keys and hitting them with index fingers).
