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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1684 in Software
• Brand: Encore
• Model: 10076
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platforms: Mac OS X, Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM

Features

• Typing tutorial with updated user interface and improved resolution
• Practice speed, accuracy, and rhythm with 250+ practice and custom lessons
• Entertaining arcade-style games; import MP3 files to listen to while practicing
• Adaptive Response Technology adjusts lesson plan to age, skill-level, and progress
• Download to Palm OS handheld device for convenient practice on the go

From the Manufacturer
At home or at work, strong typing skills are essential for making the most of every moment at the computer. Put an end to frustration and wasted time with just 15 minutes of practice a day!

Features:

• New! Practice speed, accuracy, and rhythm with more than 250 practice and custom lessons.
• New! Challenge your speed and accuracy with entertaining arcade-style games.
• New! Enjoy a freshly updated user interface with improved resolution.
• New! Import your own MP3 files to listen to while practicing.
• Download the program to your Palm OS handheld device for convenient practice on the go.
• Benefit from the wonders of Adaptive Response Technology, which dynamically adjusts your lesson plan to your age, skill-level, and progress.

Customer Reviews

Mavis Should Be Ashamed!
What a joke! This product is more about NetZero than typing. I bought this program so my daughter could practice typing and 10-key but all we got was NetZero and it does not ask your permission to put NetZero on your computer. Such a sad day for Mavis Beacon. My suggestion is try a free online tutor first. If you buy this product all I can say is good luck.

Has Adware, but a decent tutorial
I broke from my golden rule of buying software from a store when I purchased this program which I have a few complaints about.
1:) Netzero adware. How a commercial costing $20 (in the store) puts adware on your computer without your permission is beyond me.
2:) Dated visuals. Vista has to temporarily downgrade it's visuals in order to accommodate its games and videos. Also, the font size is far too small and the overall look is from 1995 where CD rom games first started
3:) Proceeds too fast from letter to letter. I actually downloaded a free typing software in order to review certain troublesome letters.

That being said it will help you to type better (I'm typing fluently with both hands now thanks to this and other software I have found on the internet and I'm still working on my speed) and is decent overall, but I would not recommend it to you unless you don't care about the three complaints listed

Good but not Perfect
I thought that in my thirties, after years of using 4-fingers to type, I would never really be able to learn the proper form for touch typing. This is a terrific program; I went from 7 words per minute to 40 words in 1 week. The problem with the program is that once you get to the "advanced" level it has a limited number of passages which it keeps repeating. Also the program does not include a series of tips for common weaknesses (using the pinkie, for example). It is very good at getting beginner's to become medicore typists but not so good at getting a mediocre typist to the next level. In my case become mediocre was a big leap, esp in just 7 days, so I give it 4 stars.