Typing Tournament v2

Teaches Typing for Life!

Overview A fantastic typing adventure awaits you! Complete the quest and prove yourself worthy of challenging the Dark Typist! Collect rewards and tokens as you journey through 16 medieval environments, from the Dragon's Cave to the Throne Room. Each location presents four new keys with a lesson, demonstration, practice drills, three action-packed typing games and a progress test. Only you can rid the land of the Dark Typist's tyranny! Simple instructions Only four new keys per lesson Animations show correct finger positions Interesting texts boost motivation Games require only those keys introduce so far Screenshots

The Typing Games

	Castle Siege! Your castle is being attacked! Type the words correctly to bombard your attackers with barrels to prevent them from reaching the top of the castle wall.
	Dragon Chase! Type furiously to stay ahead of the dragon and escape to the tower - otherwise you'll get a toasting!
	Powder Keg A fun-loving dragon has found your store of gunpowder and is lighting fuses with his fiery breath! Each powder keg has its own keyboard letter. Hit the correct keys to aim your water bombs and put out the fuses before it's too late!

Educational Content

Typing Tournament is divided into 16 lessons each with multiple drills, games and a progress test across three maps. Upon successfully completing each lesson, players progress to the next medieval location and receive a printable certificate of achievement to applaud their chivalry! The drills, games and tests all use meaningful, informative and entertaining texts that are specifically linked to each lesson's focus keys!

Typing Tournament is designed for all ages and stages, so the whole family can learn to touch type! Whether you're a novice, typing whiz or someone whose skills are just a little rusty, Typing Tournament is for you! The carefully crafted content is interwoven with an exciting story, cool graphics and fun games. It's a great way to master an essential real-world skill!

• Ages 6-Adult
• Uses English spelling (British)
• Covers all letters of the alphabet, basic punctuation and numbers
• Reinforces keyboard familiarity with the unique Multiple Progressions Model which combines keys in a variety of ways, including home row key paths, vertical key paths and common letter combinations
• Introduces four new keys in each lesson with simple, step-by-step instructions
• Preview and choose an overall words-per-minute typing target, which you can change if things are too easy or they get too tricky
• Test yourself to determine your starting level without wasting time going over skills you already have
• Promotes good posture and typing habits with an introductory lesson
• Boosts motivation with meaningful, informative and entertaining texts that are specifically linked to the accompanying lessons

Multiple Progressions Model

Typing Tournament reinforces keyboard familiarity and strengthens muscle memory with the Multiple Progressions Model, a unique model for teaching typing specially designed to break the negative learning cycle and give users maximum flexibility in establishing and reaching their typing goals. This enables players to continually improve as complexity increases.

Key Features

• Motivational mystery! Finish the lessons and find out what happens when you meet The Dark Typist?
• Colour-coded keyboard, animated demonstrations of correct finger placement, and visual prompts
• Designed for maximum reinforcement of muscle memory and finger movement patterns
• Powerful administrative tools allow you to manage users and print results
• Includes extensive record keeping to monitor progress, including overall speed and accuracy
• Displays a keyboard layout to show mastered and 'in-progress' keys so that players can concentrate on particular areas needing attention
• Customise user profiles with a huge range of cool user icons
• Simple, kid-friendly animated interface that enhances self-directed learning
• Save time with Integrated User Lists*

  * EdAlive's IUL (Integrated User List) technology streamlines the integration of user data with other EdAlive Version 2 titles, including BRAINtastic, Ultimate Maths Invaders, Volcanic Panic, Baggin' the Dragon and Words Rock - kids' profiles created in one title will automatically be available in the others (does not work with Version 1 of these titles)

• Powerful administration and user-management features that can track the results of up to 10 users
• Display, export and print detailed user statistics

Multiple Award Winning Software with Cross-Platform Compatibility

Backward compatible and future proof: Microsoft Windows Complies with Microsoft Application Standards to give maximum compatibility with Windows operating systems and servers, including Windows XP Service Pack 2, Vista, Windows 7 and Windows Servers 2003 and 2008 Apple Macintosh Supplied in Universal Binary to ensure maximum forward compatibility with all Macintosh systems, from OSX 10.4.11 and later* * Version 1 used the PowerPC emulator "Rosetta". Rosetta emulation is slower and more error-prone when compared to Universal Binary, and is provided by Apple to support older, non-standard software Multiple award winning software BESSIE Awards - Best Typing Software EDDIE Awards - Best Typing Software National Parenting Center - Seal of Approval ATOM Awards - Best Training Resource

About EdAlive

Since 1987, EdAlive has been helping parents and teachers instil the love of learning in their children through educating, motivating and rewarding software, and has grown to be one of the world's leading publishers of educational software for primary aged children.

The EdAlive range consists of over 50 powerful titles that motivate kids to learn through fun. Over the past few years EdAlive has won over 60 awards and endorsements recognising the quality of its software. The flexible educational content and customisable user settings allow parents to target their child's learning needs.

EdAlive software is real learning fully integrated with addictive fun!

A fantastic typing adventure awaits you! Complete the quest and prove yourself worthy of challenging the Dark Typist! Collect rewards and tokens as you journey through 16 medieval environments, from the Dragon's Cave to the Throne Room. Each location presents four new keys with a lesson, demonstration, practice drills, three action-packed typing games and a progress test. Only you can rid the land of the Dark Typist's tyranny!

• Simple instructions
• Only four new keys per lesson
• Animations show correct finger positions
• Interesting texts boost motivation
• Games require only those keys introduce so far

Typing Tournament is divided into 16 lessons each with multiple drills, games and a progress test across three maps. Upon successfully completing each lesson, players progress to the next medieval location and receive a printable certificate of achievement to applaud their chivalry! The drills, games and tests all use meaningful, informative and entertaining texts that are specifically linked to each lesson's focus keys!

Typing Tournament is designed for all ages and stages, so the whole family can learn to touch type! Whether you're a novice, typing whiz or someone whose skills are just a little rusty, Typing Tournament is for you! The carefully crafted content is interwoven with an exciting story, cool graphics and fun games. It's a great way to master an essential real-world skill!

• Ages 6-Adult
• Uses English spelling (British)
• Covers all letters of the alphabet, basic punctuation and numbers
• Reinforces keyboard familiarity with the unique Multiple Progressions Model which combines keys in a variety of ways, including home row key paths, vertical key paths and common letter combinations
• Introduces four new keys in each lesson with simple, step-by-step instructions
• Preview and ch