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    Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 17 Standard

    Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 17 Standard

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    From: Encore Software
    Category: Software

    List Price: $19.99
    Buy New: $4.95
    You Save: $15.04 (75%)



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    Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars 15 reviews
    Sales Rank: 2530

    Format: Cd-rom
    Platform: Windows Xp
    Media: CD-ROM
    Edition: Standard
    Batteries Included: No
    Operating System: Windows XP
    Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
    Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 1.2
    Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.

    MPN: 6706
    Model: 22228
    UPC: 705381100751
    EAN: 0705381100751
    ASIN: B000B6N2M6

    Release Date: February 21, 2006
    Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
    Shipping: Expedited shipping available
    Condition: Brand New Gift Quality Box! We ship in one day with FREE tracking and email confirmation.

    Features:
      • Typing tutorial software with 250+ practice and custom lessons
      • Practice speed, accuracy, and rhythm; entertaining arcade-style games
      • Enjoy a freshly updated user interface with improved resolution
      • Adaptive Response Technology adjusts lessons to age, skill, and progress
      • Import your own MP3 files to listen to while practicing

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    Editorial Reviews:

    Amazon.com
    For the past 12 years in a row, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing has been the best-selling typing tutorial on the market and has garnered over 15 prestigious awards, including the Teacher's Choice and Parent's Choice awards. With the Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 17, that tradition is certain to continue with several new and advanced performance-based programs that adjust to your skill level and provide instant feedback on every exercise.



    Polish your typing skills to finish work faster, and put yourself on the path to maximum productivity, and higher salaries.
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    Exercise your typing fingers with more than 188 practice lessons and 91 custom lessons. View larger.
    With the information technology economy expanding with no end in sight, keeping up with your typing skills is more important than ever. Knowing how to type fast and accurately is not a job for just secretaries and data entry personnel any more; writers, web developers, and professionals in all fields can improve their income potential and value by optimizing their typing speed and accuracy.

    Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 17 helps you to exercise your typing fingers with more than 188 practice lessons and 91 custom lessons. A truly interactive program, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 17 analyzes your typing patterns and helps you to eliminate bad habits. And to customize your learning experience, the software lets you choose the user profile that best suits your abilities, including a special "kids" and "teens" profile. To help keep young typists motivated, the program has 10 arcade-style games that make practicing fun. And now that text messaging has become a staple of modern life, typing is no longer limited to the QWERTY keyboard! Mavis Beacon offers practice in both text messaging, including the use of truly GR8 shortcuts that will increase your messaging SKLZ and make you extremely :>). The software also has exercises designed to improve your HTML coding.

    An enhanced user interface is compatible with wide screen laptops and leaves your desktop more accessible even while the program is running. And to make typing as fun as possible, you can even jazz up your lessons by importing your own MP3 files to listen to while you practice.


    Product Description
    For the past 12 years in a row, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing has been the best-selling typing tutorial on the market and has garnered over 15 prestigious awards, including the Teacher's Choice and Parent's Choice awards. With the Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 17, that tradition is certain to continue with several new and advanced performance-based programs that adjust to your skill level and provide instant feedback on every exercise.


    Customer Reviews:   Read 10 more reviews...

    4 out of 5 stars Very Good   September 5, 2008
    Solomon Boyd (Dallas, TX USA)
    This program is what I first learned type on it taught me so well that in 3 days I went from not being able to type at all to typing at 20 wpm with all of the characters. This program has a great interface. I especially like it's status tracker. Even if it wasn't so cheap I would still recommend it.


    1 out of 5 stars Previous purchasers of the Mavis software   October 4, 2007
    Daniel Craig (Phoenix, Arizona USA)
    0 out of 2 found this review helpful

    This is terrible. I had purchased Mavis back in the day and now with my children needing to type I thought this was the product to buy because of my computer operation system incarnations. I thought, MAVIS...the software I had eight years ago, but:

    After reading the posts...

    If there is no help or no support or no avenue for this software, then I would have to say, don't buy it. (I say this with a heavy heart. Mavis, what happened.)

    I shall have to search elsewhere for my children's typing software...sorry

    Sincerely,
    Daniel Craig
    Arizona




    3 out of 5 stars Well, it does teach you how to type...   June 8, 2007
    It's me (LONG ISLAND CITY, NEW YORK USA)
    7 out of 7 found this review helpful

    But there are many flaws. First off, it installs many third party programs on your computer in secret so you should do a custom install if it gives you the option, and DONT fill out the form that they have you fill out to register the product with your real information. They don't have customer service anyway, so this is just a ploy to sell your information. I tried getting a hold of customer service because I cannot get the program to run full screen on my xp system for some reason and you're given the run around by their website and end up with no one to contact. No email address- No phone #...Nothing. It gives you the option to type two spaces after the period instead of one, but the option doesn't work all the time. It looks like a program from the mid 90's that they're trying to pass off as recent. I will not deny that this program brought my typing speed from 30 to 50 words per minute with daily practice which is why I gave it 3 stars, but I don't see why another program with no flaws couldn't do the same. I haven't been able to compare products and maybe this really is the best program for learning how to type, but all I can say is- If there's any way around ordering a Borderbound product, you should do so at all costs.


    5 out of 5 stars KLBILL   March 9, 2007
    KLBILL (Oklahoma)
    4 out of 4 found this review helpful

    I ordered this for my sister as a b'day present. She is "typing challenged" and has improved so much it is amazing. She enjoys the drills and seeing how much she is improving. Great product for any age


    1 out of 5 stars Will burn your CPU   March 4, 2007
    Bogdan Dorohonceanu
    12 out of 12 found this review helpful

    This is obviously an old code packaged as new. You can see that from the moment you install it. It will also install 3rd party offers on your computer. It will use 98-100% of your CPU even if you do not type anything. I believe the code actively loops indefinitely reading the keyboard instead of registering a callback function for events from keyboard. In just a few minutes your CPU will get hot and your fan will run like crazy. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY.

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