SpongeBob Squarepants Typing

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Product Description

Learn to type the SpongeBob way with this step-by-step typing tutorial that's awash with waterlogged hilarity and all your favorite SpongeBob SquarePants friends! features five exciting games with different themes to build your typing speed, accuracy, and rhythm.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2690 in Software
• Brand: Encore
• Model: 383167
• Released on: 2004-09-15
• ESRB Rating: Early Childhood
• Platforms: Windows NT, Windows 2000, Mac OS X, Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Number of items: 1

From the Manufacturer
SpongeBob is ready to take on the citizens of Bikini Bottom in the first-ever undersea Typing Tournament. His eye is on the grand prize: a Seanut butter and Jellyfish jelly sandwich! 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?

Featuring multiple levels of challenge for ages 7 and up, two modes of play, and a slew of irresistible learning pals, 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!

SpongeBob may be squishy, but his typing skills are on the way to becoming rock solid! Kids and adults can become seaworthy typists, too, thanks to this adorable skill-building adventure featuring Bikini Bottom's favorite denizens.

Features:

• Enjoy a kid-friendly design that encourages independent learning.
• Discover, refine, and test essential typing skills.
• Explore a motivating combination of tutorials, drills, activities, and games.
• Progress through 17 lessons and five levels of challenge.
• Check out Game Mode for structured progress, or switch to Freestyle Mode for open-ended practice and play.
• Brought to you by the typing experts at Mavis Beacon.

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Customer Reviews

Not for beginners ...
Our children LOVE Spongebob, but we were disappointed in this program. After trying Spongebob for a few days, we bought Mavis Beacon's basic course. Our children caught on immediately with Beacon and have continued to use it instead of Spongebob.

Beacon's course starts off with the basics (home-row keys) and gradually progresses from there. It actually "teaches" and automatically reviews particular skills that the typist is having trouble with. The Spongebob program seems to take for granted that one already knows the basics of typing. It provides little more than practice tools.

In a nutshell, Spongebob is probably good for an advanced typist, but Beacon is better for a beginner.

Typing's fun with Spongebob
My kids are Spongebob fanatics and having recently finished learning the basics of touch typing, thought they would like to continue learning with their favorite silly sea-dweller.

Instructions are scant. To learn typing basics, one needs to go to the Krusty Krab Typing Tournament (which seems it would be a place to go after one learns to type). The see-through hands and constant encouraging words from Spongebob do help new typists learn. To reinforce the letters learned, there are typing breaks with the games from Glove World.

Alternately, one can go directly to Glove World and play the challenges. My kids are nuts for Senseless Patrick, a truly clever maze you clear letter by letter to find Patrick's missing five senses. It's the most unique game on the disc and is truly compelling. The snail races are fun, and the boat ride, too. Sandy's hoe-down gives you music as you touch letters, but it doesn't make a lot of sense to musicians, as a single note can be any number of letters. Also the game where you type words to dress Patrick ends with a fun payoff (Patrick in a crazy outfit) but it isn't clear how he gets the different parts of his outfit so duplicating something silly is pretty tough. All games can be completed at three different levels of difficulty so they do remain challenging as skills build.

The games make it worth the price tag. Though the typing drills do deal with nautical themes, they're merely average. There are other typing programs with more interesting games and drills but if nautical nonsense is something your kids wish, they'll like this game.

a nice game
Spongebob typing is a good solid game. Its cute and more fun than I expected. The kids love it when we race the boats! Its worth having in your collection.