Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing
The program is user-friendly at its best: you can choose to skip lesson, play a fun typing game (3D racing), or read the vast amount of well-written on-line help and tutorial. Accuracy, speed, and % completion are shown as real-time meters to the left of the screen. You can even use a ticking metronome to time your key presses.
With excellent execution, outstanding on-line help, and a plethora of graphs and options to tailor the program to your typing preferences, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is, without question, the best typing tutor ever made, with a design that truly stands the test of time. Perhaps nothing attests to the program's endurance better than the fact that the series is still going strong (it is now a label of Brøderbund) even after its original developer The Software Toolworks changed its name to Mindscape and later bought out. Definitely the best keyboard-related product since Dvorak's keyboard. Two thumbs up!
Average Rating: | 8.22 [90 votes] |
Genre: | Education |
Designer: | Henrik Markarian |
Developer: | Software Toolworks |
Publisher: | Software Toolworks |
Year: | 1987 |
Software Copyright: | Software Toolworks |
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Related Links: | Official Mavis Beacon Site |
More Info: | Mobygames | The Web |
System Requirements: | DOS |
If you like this game, try: | Mario Teaches Typing, Typing Racer, Maurice Ashley Teaches Chess |
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Technical Notes: | Run in pure DOS only |
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