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- Platform: Windows 98 / 2000 / Me / XP / Vista
- Media: CD-ROM
- Item Quantity: 1
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- Practice speed, accuracy and rhythm with 20 new custom lessons
- Test your speed with Ride the Wave, and strive for pinpoint accuracy with Gumball Gambit--2 entertaining games
- Enjoy a freshly updated interface with improved resolution
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Improving your typing skills doesn't have to cut into your valuable time. In as little as 15 minutes of practice per day, Beacon Teaches Typing 16 Deluxe guarantees improvements in speed, accuracy, and rhythm in just two weeks. Featuring customized lessons and an upbeat, stimulating format, Mavis Beacon will get you typing better--and working faster--in no time. A smart investment with lasting rewards.
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 16 Deluxe offers typing instruction that suits your professional routine. It features 20 new practice lessons, including new HTML documents. With over 150 new topics to choose from, you'll find the topics that interest you, and start boosting your typing skills. Type faster and reduce keyboarding errors in as little as 15 minutes a day! Download lessons to your Palm OS device, to practice on the go.
Features:
- NEW - 20 more custom lessons give you more options to practice with topics of interest and select each lessons settings to suit your needs.
- NEW - 20 new practice lessons, including new HTML documents, expand your options--and with over 150 lessons to choose from we're confident you'll find topics that will interest you.
- NEW - Test your speed with Ride the Wave and strive for pinpoint accuracy with Gumball Gambit--two entertaining new games.
- NEW - Enjoy a freshly updated user interface with improved resolution.
- NEW - Experience the improved sound quality of new voiceover text.
- Use the Custom Lesson Designer to create your own practice programs with content that interests you.
- Benefit from the wonders of Adaptive Response Technology, which dynamically adjusts your lesson plan to your age, skill-level, and progress.
- Trust Mavis Beacon for serious typing instruction designed to suit your professional routine.
- Take a break--but keep on improving!--with 10 fun arcade-style typing games, each designed to improve speed, accuracy, or rhythm.
- Track your progress over time with detailed feedback and performance analysis.
- Customize your learning environment by selecting keyboard layout, music, and sound options, WPM goals, and more.
- Follow ergonomic videos and our interactive guide to ensure that your workspace habits keep you comfortable and healthy. Download the program to your Palm OS handheld device for convenient practice on the go (expandable keyboard required).
Don't let clumsy typing hold you back! Get a competitive edge with razor-sharp typing skills that let you work faster and smarter. With guaranteed results in just 15 minutes per day, Mavis Beacon deserves a standing appointment in your busy schedule.
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49 of 50 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Too American!,
By Drengskap (Leicester, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 16 Deluxe (PC) (CD-ROM)
I've been using the non-deluxe version of MB for a couple of weeks now, and I'm making good progress with my touch-typing - at least as far as the ordinary letter keys go. However, there are a few problems with the program. Firstly, it's American, so it uses American spellings, and there is no way to change this. Secondly, and probably more seriously, American keyboards are NOT identical to British keyboards - the QWERTY layout is the same, of course, but when it comes to the position of non-alphabetic characters like $, @, £, # etc, they are in different places - so Mavis Beacon's directions actually become misleading. Again, there's no way to change this. Having said all this, learning to touch-type is definitely a worthwhile endeavour, so good luck with it!
33 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 16 Deluxe (PC) (CD-ROM)
I bought this product after a recommendation from a friend, and a need to speed up from my typing!The program is really easy to install and use, and the program is easy to follow. The games are a good feature, and provide a more entertaining way to learn. I am very pleased I purchased this product and am continuing to use it to improve my typing skills.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not much improved over older versions,
By AfterTheEvent "Will" (Belfast) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 16 Deluxe (PC) (CD-ROM)
I used Version 8 on Windows 95 to teach myself to type in the late 90s.
Then I thought it was great. It was a big help. This version I expected to be more polished. Perhaps more scientific in it's approach; though really it hasn't changed much. Still good. Purchased for my neice, installation hung on her XP machine during install/registration. Ctrl+Alt+Delete showed registration and installation to behave as two seperate applications. Killed registration and the installation proceeded. The first thing I noticed was that the interface didn't scale well to a widescreen resolution of 1680 x 1050 some jumbled text in the options dialogue. Installation problem + resolution irritation = minus one star. Secondly: Even my niece (11) is irritated by the lack of keyboard navigation. The use of the enter key to start the next lesson would be a help. You have to reach for the mouse for every task. This coupled with the fact that it runs full-screen (not in a window) is definitely minus another star. The program occasionally gives / displays the wrong instructions for a UK keyboard but does register the correct key-presses - irritating. The program doesn't appear to have changed in format much since version 8 which is a little disappointing. There is much more material but it's all much the same. I really thought teaching methods might have changed a bit though admittedly typing is still a muscle-memory skill. This is generally useful and helpful software and could generally be recomended. It includes a Learn Word XP title as well which may be useful to some. While the actual training available from the software is of quite good quality the application as a whole is distinctly average.
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