Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Platinum 20 | 
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Category: Software
List Price: $29.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 105
Format: Cd
Platforms: Windows, Windows Xp, Windows Vista
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Macintosh
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 1.5
Model: 15060
UPC: 705381150602
EAN: 0705381150602
ASIN: B0012VI1ES
Release Date: February 14, 2008
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| Features:
| • | 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) |
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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.
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Maximize your productivity with Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Platinum 20! The most comprehensive typing instruction system now includes updated learning tools, an improved user interface and even more features to guarantee typing improvements in just 2 weeks.  In addition to Mavis Beacon's personal typing instruction, detailed reports illustrate overall progress and assist in identifying specific strengths and weaknesses. |  16 Arcade-style typing games, including multi-level games. |  430 Personalized lessons, exercises and tests. |  Offers typists of all skill levels and ages a brand new learning experience with greater benefits and increased efficiency. | Whether you want to learn essential keyboarding skills or improve overall typing efficiency, Mavis Beacon will guide you step-by step on your road to success! Improve speed and accuracy with detailed assessments, customized lessons and skill-building games. In addition to Mavis Beacon's personal typing instruction, detailed reports illustrate overall progress and assist in identifying specific strengths and weaknesses. Powerful learning tools, along with this detailed reporting will help typists excel at their own pace. Hard work is rewarded with "recess time" and certificates of completion. Cool tools such as "import your own MP3 files" and fun arcade-style games enrich the learning experience. Redesigned with advanced technology and updated with even more features--Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Platinum 20 offers typists of all skill levels and ages a brand new learning experience with greater benefits and increased efficiency. - 430 Personalized lessons, exercises and tests
- 16 Arcade-style games, including multi-level games
- Detailed tracking and progress reporting
- New content--type jokes, riddles, recipes, song lyrics and more
- Type in English, Spanish & French
- Choose from new music options or import your own MP3 files and type to your own tunes
- New Certificates of Completion
- Hybrid--Works with Microsoft Vista & Mac OSX Universal certified
Platinum Exclusives
- Unique Custom Lesson Designer
- Learn to type in English, Spanish & French
- New multi-level arcade-style games
- Import your own text as Word.doc formats--be productive while practicing your typing skills
- Choose to type from hundreds of interesting articles, stories and emoticons
Learn with Mavis Beacon and achieve noticeable results quicker than any other typing program--guaranteed.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Avoid This If Don't Already Touch Type May 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a previous review stated, the product stops teaching one keys after E and I. Apparently it was never tested by anyone at the beginner level.
There is no easy way to report this to the publisher as well.
Very disappointing.
Disappointing... May 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased this about two weeks ago, planning to finally learn to touchtype. Perhaps this is the best package out there, but I am quite disappointed with it. The lessons start off comfortably, with a introdution to the resting position keys, followed by drills using those keys. But on my copy of the program, after introducing the first two keys that are not directly under the resting position (the "e" and "i"), the lessons and drills jump to a much more advanced level - requiring the use of many letters not introduced yet. Perhaps my package is uniquely buggy, but since there's no customer service at Broderbund's website, I'll never know.
For a package that's at version 20, I'm very disappointed.
Careless and flawed. May 5, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
This program offers the basic features that you'd expect from most any typing training program within the last 5-10 years, but offers little else that's impressive.
It has a heavy list of glaring flaws, however, as there are very obvious format flaws in some of the lessons (no spaces after the end of some sentences, etc). The options you choose such as double-spacing after the end of sentences sometimes don't carry over, and never do with games. There are also graphical bugs with the strike-through style option of typing that cause words in later lessons to be offset, replaced, or disappear.
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 Much Improved, this is the best program now days March 27, 2008
24 out of 24 found this review helpful
This program is MUCH IMPROVED! If you'll see my review of Mavis Beacon 17 I believe it was, you can see where I pointed out this programs flaws. However, these have all been resolved and this program has become satisfactory in every way in my opinion.
Mavis Beacon 20 (I have only tried the platinum edition) also has a new practice feature which I haven't found anywhere else, where you can choose from a huge selection of articles where you just type right along with the text while the text you type appears in the lines in between the text to type (no looking halfway down the screen to see mistakes), errors appear in red and make a little noise to let you know that they have occurred. This is a great practicing tool for after you learn all the keys and want to stay sharp. I should also add that these articles are legitimate or legitimate style articles that are actually interesting and fun to type (such as outtakes from Ben Franklin's biography, to scientific articles, many topics) unlike those boring, fake ones that usually are in place on typing programs (which make you feel like you're back in elementary school) and you can even import your own text.
This has really been turned into a very fine program and out of all the programs out there (I've tried alot of them) this one without question gets the highest recommendation. All features have become very practical and user friendly. There's also a ten key learning portion of the program (as with the older versions as well) The interface also has been spiffed up very nicely with pleasing graphics a whole array of new and actually fun games. Bravo to Broderbund for setting the bar to new heights in this program.
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