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Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 9.0

Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 9.0

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: It reminds me...
Review: about 7 years ago while I was a junior high school student, I learned to type using this software (the earlier version, of course) on my Apple Performa 580.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Excellent program to learn to type with
Review: About three or four years ago, my parents forced me to sit down and work with this program until I could type fast. Thank goodness they did! Now I enjoy computer programming, creative writing, and surfing the Internet at a much faster speed.

I don't have the speed of a professional typist, obviously, but including errors my typing speed is on average over one hundred words per minute. Parents - if you want to help your kids out, get them this or a later version of this program. I'm not in high school yet, but I'm already enjoying the benefits of getting my work done well and efficiently.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Great Except....
Review: This is generally a great program. The Games are fun (especially the road race). What I don't like about it is that in this one exercise where you're supposed to type in time with a metronome, the metronome is completly off beat with the music that plays! it makes it very hard to keep time with the metronome and not the music!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Okay, but a memory hog
Review: This typing tool is useful for novice typists who want a quick, but fun way to improvise and increase their technical skills on the computer keyboard. The only problem that this program takes up most of the memory and even if I got the computer which has a whopping heap of unused memory, Mavis Beacons gobbles it eventually as if it is hungry for more. The graphic, when used on the older computer is slow and cumbersome, but if you want to find a better typing software that uses only half of the memory, I'd keep on searching.


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