Product Description

From the typing experts who have brought you Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing® SpongeBob Squarepants™ Typing is an adorable skill-building adventure through which kids and adults alike can become seaworthy typists!  SpongeBob Squarepants™ Typing will entice your children to surf the keyboard and learn to type! Children of all ages can learn to type through arcade-style learning activities and they won t be able to stop! SpongeBob Squarepants™ needs your typing help! SpongeBob is ready to take on the citizens of Bikini Bottom in the first ever under-sea typing tournament. But there s one problem-- he can t type! What fate awaits our hapless hero? Will he be SpongeBob LoserPants? Or can you help him triumph and become the top typist at the bottom of the sea? SpongeBob Typing brings you a wide array of features: Two super-absorbent ways to learn: Game mode or Freestyle mode A combination of tutorials drills activities and quizzes Three challenge levels plus help and encouragement Progress tracking for speed and accuracy Posture home row keys and keyboard awareness Guide hands on the virtual keyboard teaches accurate finger placement Common letter combinations knowledge Capital letter numbers and punctuation lessons Plus oceans of activities and nautical nonsense! SpongeBob SquarePants™ Typing is an unbeatable tutorial solution for young keyboarders. As typing skills grow kids also pick up nifty facts about undersea life and nautical nonsense! Great games and plenty of undersea fun learning to type with this cartoon giant is certainly no chore! System Requirements:Windows® Minimum requirements: Windows® 2000 SP4/XP (Home & Pro) SP2/Vista™¹ 266 MHz Pentium II or faster 64 MB RAM DirectX 8.1 (included on CD) 8X or faster CD-ROM drive 200 MB free hard disk space SVGA video card - 16 bit color monitor 800 x 600 resolution or better 4 MB of Video RAM Windows®-compatible 16-bit sound card Speakers Key

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #160 in Software
• Brand: Encore
• Model: 10531
• Released on: 2006-02-14
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platforms: Windows XP, Mac OS X
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Features

• Kid-friendly typing tutorial provides a skill-building adventure
• Combination of tutorials, drills, activities, and quizzes
• 3 challenge levels; Game mode or Freestyle mode
• Progress tracking for speed and accuracy; correct finger placement
• Plus, oceans of activities and nautical nonsense

From the Manufacturer
From the typing experts who have brought you Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, SpongeBob Squarepants Typing is an adorable skill-building adventure through which kids and adults alike can become seaworthy typists! SpongeBob Squarepants Typing will entice your children to surf the keyboard and learn to type! Children of all ages can learn to type through arcade-style learning activities and they won’t be able to stop!

SpongeBob Squarepants needs your typing help! SpongeBob is ready to take on the citizens of Bikini Bottom in the first ever under-sea typing tournament. But there’s one problem--he can’t type! What fate awaits our hapless hero? Will he be SpongeBob LoserPants? Or can you help him triumph and become the top typist at the bottom of the sea?

SpongeBob Typing brings you a wide array of features:

• Two super-absorbent ways to learn: Game mode or Freestyle mode
• A combination of tutorials, drills, activities, and quizzes
• Three challenge levels, plus help and encouragement
• Progress tracking for speed and accuracy
• Posture, home row keys, and keyboard awareness
• Guide hands on the virtual keyboard teaches accurate finger placement
• Common letter combinations knowledge
• Capital letter, numbers, and punctuation lessons
• Plus, oceans of activities and nautical nonsense

SpongeBob SquarePants Typing is an unbeatable tutorial solution for young keyboarders. As typing skills grow, kids also pick up nifty facts about undersea life and nautical nonsense! Great games and plenty of undersea fun, learning to type with this cartoon giant is certainly no chore!

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Customer Reviews

SpongeBob Squarepants Typing
I bought this for my son who loves spongebob, and although it does help get the basics of typing, to a kid it is just another video game. That is what I was hoping it would be like, because we all know that if it isn't fun, the kids (and sometimes us adults) won't play for long. It has many games from travelling a maze and racing snails to creating music and dressing patrick in odd ourfits. It also has a lesson area that introduces the keys in an incremental way and tests you for speed and competency before you move on to the harder lessons. A very good buy.

My 10 year old is typing
This typing software for kids was definitely a good buy for us. I got it 3 weeks ago and did not really have much time to spend with the children working on their skills. My 10 year old installed it himself and spend some time on it nearly every day without beeing asked. He would follow instructions, play games and print out the results of his work regularly to present them to me proudly. Yesterday, I watched him typing an email to his friend without looking at the keyboard! Slow, but obviously enjoying his new found skill. So I can't really tell you about the individual features on the software but kids love it and it works for them. However, my 13 year old did not really take to it. I think the characters and games used, don't appeal to him. I would 10 to 11 consider a top age level. Also, we are a bilingual family and my son types in two languages on the software. We do have another software that has been sitting on the bookshelf unused unless I would sit there with the kids. Last but not least. We used this on an apple computer without a problem. A very good buy for the price!!

A+ for SpongeBob Typing tutorial
My son started cyber-school this year and I watched in dismay as he tried to complete assignments using the "finger punch" method. You know, the one where he's hunched over the keyboard searching for the letter "h" to spell the word "the". My hairdresser recommeded this typing CD to help him learn proper finger placement and to memorize the keyboard. My 10 year son and 7 year old daughter started using it right away. The lessons teach the skills sequentially and include games to reinforce skills. SpongeBob is cracking jokes and urging kids to stick with it throughout the lessons and games. There are racing games and maze games to name a few. The CD keeps track of lessons and skills that need practice. After a short period of time my kids were able to type without looking at their hands and their speed is increasing as well. From the moment we put the CD in I haven't had to nag them to practice typing. Just playing the games is practice. I highly recommend this product. The kids are having a blast learning to type.