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 Software : Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Platinum 20 |
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from: Encore Software
List Price: $29.99Amazon.com's Price: $24.99 You Save: $5.00 (17%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Encore
EAN: 0705381150602
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Encore Software
Manufacturer: Encore Software
Model: 15060
Publisher: Encore Software
Release Date: February 14, 2008
Sales Rank: 240
Studio: Encore Software
Features:- Learn essential keyboarding skills or improve overall typing efficiency
- 430 Personalized lessons, exercises and tests
- Detailed progress reports assist in identifying strengths and weaknesses
- 16 arcade-style typing games
- Bilingual instruction (English & Spanish)
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Excellent but for the dated grapics
I have been typing for many years, and have know the basics of touch typing, although I have not been able to apply them; so I have been unable to type without looking at the keyboard. One obvious problem with this being that I would not notice mistakes until long after they were made. So I finally decided to do something about it; Mavis Beacon to the rescue!
Once loaded the programmes is very easy to use; and it starts with some quite basic lessons using just a few keys. As the lessons ... Read More
Rating: - touch type made enjoyable
This version of Ms. Beacon's software makes typing even more enjoyable to learn. It is really adaptive to how well you can type - it picked up that I was an intermediate typist after a few lessons - you can't con Ms. Beacon it seems.
A few points are
1)It would be preferable if you could customize this software to eliminate some types of lessons - for example I want to touch type letters and numbers but not the minor punctuation keys like brackets -
2)The import facility is great ... Read More
Rating:  - Avoid This If Don't Already Touch Type
As a previous review stated, the product stops teaching one keys after E and I. Apparently it was never tested by anyone at the beginner level.
There is no easy way to report this to the publisher as well.
Very disappointing.
Rating: - Disappointing...
I purchased this about two weeks ago, planning to finally learn to touchtype. Perhaps this is the best package out there, but I am quite disappointed with it. The lessons start off comfortably, with a introdution to the resting position keys, followed by drills using those keys. But on my copy of the program, after introducing the first two keys that are not directly under the resting position (the "e" and "i"), the lessons and drills jump to a much more advanced level - requiring the use of many ... Read More
Rating: - Careless and flawed.
This program offers the basic features that you'd expect from most any typing training program within the last 5-10 years, but offers little else that's impressive.
It has a heavy list of glaring flaws, however, as there are very obvious format flaws in some of the lessons (no spaces after the end of some sentences, etc). The options you choose such as double-spacing after the end of sentences sometimes don't carry over, and never do with games. There are also graphical bugs with the strike ... Read More
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