Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 17 Deluxe 17

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License:Free to try; $39.99 to buy
Editor's Rating: Average
User Rating: (out of 104 votes) Rate it!
Downloads: 340,574
Requirements: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
Limitations: 10-use trial
Date Added:September 30, 2005

Publisher's description of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 17 Deluxe
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Let Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing guide your typing tutorials. Mavis Beacon will monitor your progress, flag your weak spots and offer challenging lessons to help you continue improving your keyboarding skills. Exercise your typing fingers with more than 221 practice lessons and 103 custom lessons. Enjoy 14 entertaining arcade-style games that make practicing fun.

Enhanced user interface is compatible with wide screen laptops and leaves the desktop more accessible even while the program is running. Make your learning even more efficient by customizing lessons to fit your needs. Download lessons to your Palm Pilot for easy portable practice sessions. Jazz up your lessons by importing your own MP3 files to listen to while you practice. Straighten up your keyboarding skills by correcting your posture and physical alignment with ergonomic evaluation videos.


Editor's review of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 17 Deluxe
The multimedia-rich Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 17 Deluxe can turn even the most recalcitrant hunt-and-peck artist into a skillful touch typist. But first you'll have to download the behemoth 400MB installer and suffer through the sluggish setup process. Persevere. Once you get it running, Mavis Bacon is memory-intensive but quite fast. The unusual interface depicts a classroom; you click on various objects to select tasks (for instance, a computer to enter the Lesson Area). Mavis Bacon provides not only lessons and drills, but also videos and text advice on proper typing posture. It also allows you to build custom lessons, play special typing games, and check the ergonomics at your workplace. All in all, it's a feature-rich typing tutor with a good-looking interface and lots of useful extras.

TypingMaster Typing Test 6.3

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License:Free
Editor's Rating: Average
User Rating: (out of 99 votes) Rate it!
Downloads: 1,458,756
Requirements: Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server
Limitations: No limitations
Date Added:November 14, 2005

Publisher's description of TypingMaster Typing Test
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TypingMaster Typing Test is a free, full-featured typing tester for Windows. After warming up with enjoyable typing games, you can evaluate your typing skills with any of the several test texts, or add your own. You can also view your personal test result history and print out test diplomas. Program has multiuser support and four games. In addition this package contains several features of TypingMaster Pro typing tutor such as the touch typing course (3 free lessons) and a full Numeric Keypad course.
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Editor's review of TypingMaster Typing Test
If you're looking to boost your typing speed and accuracy, TypingMaster Typing Test can provide the repetitive practice you need. Just don't expect this freeware program to give you any coaching. In a typical session, you might start with the rudimentary (and rather dull) warm-up games and move on from there to the full-blown typing tests. TypingMaster offers only one kind of testing method--retyping a set text--though you can break up the monotony by supplying your own TXT files. The program can store results for several users and track their progress over several tests. At the end of each test, the program gives a brief performance evaluation, though we wish it also gave custom-tailored advice based on our typing patterns. Unfortunately, that feature is restricted to the for-pay version. In sum, TypingMaster Typing Test offers nothing to distinguish it from countless similar titles, and earns only a lukewarm recommendation from us.

RapidTyping Typing Tutor 1.8.2.3

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License:Free
User Rating: (out of 26 votes)
Downloads: 36,354
Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Limitations: No limitations
Date Added:March 11, 2008

Publisher's description of RapidTyping Typing Tutor
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This free touch typing tutor help you learn quick and blind keyboard printing. Program benefits: - Training statistics; - Keyboard emulation; - Uses the simple and colorful interface; - Personal exercises creation; - Free lessons choice; - Multiple Users Support; - Game plot; - Main lessons is in all languages. Version 1.8.2.3 improved 'dialog results'.
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