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System Requirements
- Platform: Windows NT / 98 / 2000 / Me / XP
- Media: CD-ROM
- Item Quantity: 1
Product Features
- Typing Practice: The most technologically advanced and intuitive version yet
- Age Appropriate Content and Lessons
- On-screen Guide Hands
- Fun Games : 8 games with different themes
- create or modify your own lessons by setting your own personal speed and accuracy goals
- import your own files or use existing text from the program
- Access custom content from top ergonomic, educational and resource sites
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
If you want to improve your typing skills then Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 15 could be the perfect instructor for you. This title is easy to install and to begin with you have to specify your age, your type of keyboard and your typing goal (how many words per minute). Lessons are customised to your specific needs and you get plenty of progress reports.
There is a whole mixture of exercises on this program and in some lessons, on-screen hands type along with you, demonstrating where your fingers should go on the keyboard. The opportunities that you are given to customise this program makes it equally effective for beginners, busy executives and admin assistants who want to improve their skills.
There are some people who are probably put off using software programs to learn to type because they find them too impersonal. One of the main strengths of this program is that it goes out of its way to create a traditional classroom feel. You get friendly voiceovers as Mavis Beacon introduces herself, shows you around and encourages you to improve your skills.
You can be taught in either Spanish or English and it's not all work. In the game hallway, there are eight entertaining games that help to build your typing speeds and accuracy. In one game, you click on keyboard characters to make colourful bugs quickly disappear.
Overall this is a very slick typing program that offers plenty of variety to keep you interested and the games are enjoyable enough to keep enticing you back. --Justin Hunt
Manufacturer's Description
Terrific typing skills - right at your fingertips! Discover the fun and challenging way to improve efficiency and enhance productivity with excellent keyboarding skills. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing V15 Deluxe is the ideal tutorial program for any keyboardd user. Featuring customised lessons, motivating speed tests and progress reports, dictation practice and more, this versatile program is equally effective for the young student typist, the busy executive, or the professional administrative assistant seeking to improve their skills.
Typing Practice: The most technologically advanced and intuitive version yet using enhanced Adaptive Response Technology - customises the program to the typing strengths, weaknesses and skill level. Age Appropriate Content and Lessons: Optimise learning with interesting materials designed especially for children 8+, teenagers and adults alike. On-screen Guide Hands: Watch the guide hands type the correct finger positions without looking at your keyboard. Fun Games : 8 games with different themes to build your typing speed, accuracy, rhythm and endurance. Custom Lessons: Create lessons for use in the lesson area or selected games. Lesson Designer: create or modify your own lessons by setting your own personal speed and accuracy goals – import your own files or use existing text from the program. Internet Link: Access custom content from top ergonomic, educational and resource sites.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
84 of 85 people found the following review helpful
This is just about the best typing tutor that I have ever seen or used! Not only is it extremely easy to get started and learn, but it applies the skills learnt in the lessons to games and puzzles, which is a brilliant way to practice and hone your new found talent.
Anyone wishing to learn the art of touch typing should take my advice and use nothing other than Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 15.0, which I feel knocks all other typing tutors right out of the window.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Ever since I got this my typing has gone from pretty rubbish to great and I'm still improving! Mavis Beacom puts fun into typing with lessons that guide you through touch typing and games which makes it fun. Before I got this I coudn't type without looking at my fingers but now I've forgotten what my hands look like! It's so easy to use ( after an hour I had completed 50% of my target speed). This CD even has live videos to help you! Anyone who wants to improve their typing or wants to learn from the start should get this.
28 of 29 people found the following review helpful
I could already type before I got this, so I can't really comment on how good it is for people learning right from the beginning. I got Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 15 to help me brush up my skills and to improve my overall speed, and it has certainly done that.
The program installed easily, and doesn't take up much space on my hard drive. Once installed it is really easy to fire it up and get going on your practice. I must say that using Mavis Beacon 15 is a whole lot more fun than the way I learned to type some (cough) years ago on an old manual typewriter! The voiceovers are pleasant, and the games are pretty good too.
The thing I have found most useful though is that you can have Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 15 running whilst you are doing other typing tasks, such as writing emails or word processing. Your speed and accuracy are recorded as you go along so you get a much better idea of your typing skills in real world situations.
I'm only giving it four stars because although Mavis Beacon is great for brushing up your skills the program is catering to all audiences, so there is a fair amount of content that isn't relevant, and after all, it is just typing!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Great product
I really liked this MB. Instructions are easy to follow and the only thing I didn't like was chameleon game but apart of that this is a nice little learning tool. Read more
Published 16 months ago by ladybird
Easy to follow
I bought this product after a recommendation from a friend, and a need to speed up from my 15 wpm!
The program is really easy to install and use, and the program is really... Read more
The program is really easy to install and use, and the program is really... Read more
Published on 17 Aug 2004
Mavis to the rescue
I have since had Mavis Beacon (Version No.8) so imagine my suprise when I tried out version 15.0! It's amazing! Read more
Published on 18 Jan 2004 by Sassy Brit
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