Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Platinum 20 From:Encore , Encore Software ,
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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Encore
EAN: 0705381150602
Format: CD
Label: Encore Software
Manufacturer: Encore Software
Model: 15060
Packaged Height: 150 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 750 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 25 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 540 hundredths-inches
Platform: Windows Vista
Platform: Windows XP
Platform: Windows
Publisher: Encore Software
Release Date: 2008-02-14
Studio: Encore Software
Feature:
- 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)
Product Description:
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Platinum 20 offers an unbeatable learning experience. Enjoy a unique and comprehensive learning experience that will help you become a better typist. Increase speed and accuracy through detailed assessments, customized lessons and skill-building games. Whether you want to build core keyboarding skills or improve overall tying efficiency, Mavis Beacon Teaches typing in an ideal resource. With a complete re-design, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Platinum 20 may not look familiar, but they promise that Mavis Beacon continues to deliver the same level of excellence when it comes to typing instruction and practice.
Customer Reviews:
1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
touch type made enjoyable, 2008-05-29
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 up to a point but when you add the text from internet sources it tends to add weird hypertext characters which are annoying as you want just to type text.
3)The games are basic and not very challenging - I enjoyed a game called typing of the dead which pushes my touch typing to the limit - I wish Ms. Beacon would incorporate something like this or typer shark deluxe.
Overall however apart from these few minor points the software does what it says on the box teach you to type which is what it is intended to do. There are not many typing programs of this quality on the market and she is still the standard bearer.
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