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from: Encore Software
Amazon.com's Price: $29.99 Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Encore
EAN: 0705381150602
Format: CD
Label: Encore Software
Manufacturer: Encore Software
Model: 15060
Publisher: Encore Software
Release Date: February 14, 2008
Sales Rank: 100
Studio: Encore Software
Features:- Learn essential keyboarding skills or improve overall typing efficiency
- 430 Personalized lessons, exercises and tests
- Detailed progress reports assist in identifying strengths and weaknesses
- 16 arcade-style typing games
- Bilingual instruction (English & Spanish)
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Product Description:
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Platinum 20 offers an unbeatable learning experience. Enjoy a unique and comprehensive learning experience that will help you become a better typist. Increase speed and accuracy through detailed assessments, customized lessons and skill-building games. Whether you want to build core keyboarding skills or improve overall tying efficiency, Mavis Beacon Teaches typing in an ideal resource. With a complete re-design, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Platinum 20 may not look familiar, but they promise that Mavis Beacon continues to deliver the same level of excellence when it comes to typing instruction and practice.
Amazon.com:
Maximize your productivity with Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Platinum 20! The most comprehensive typing instruction system now includes updated learning tools, an improved user interface and even more features to guarantee typing improvements in just 2 weeks.
In addition to Mavis Beacon's personal typing instruction, detailed reports illustrate overall progress and assist in identifying specific strengths and weaknesses. | 
16 Arcade-style typing games, including multi-level games. | 
430 Personalized lessons, exercises and tests. | 
Offers typists of all skill levels and ages a brand new learning experience with greater benefits and increased efficiency. |
Whether you want to learn essential keyboarding skills or improve overall typing efficiency, Mavis Beacon will guide you step-by step on your road to success! Improve speed and accuracy with detailed assessments, customized lessons and skill-building games.
In addition to Mavis Beacon's personal typing instruction, detailed reports illustrate overall progress and assist in identifying specific strengths and weaknesses. Powerful learning tools, along with this detailed reporting will help typists excel at their own pace. Hard work is rewarded with 'recess time' and certificates of completion. Cool tools such as 'import your own MP3 files' and fun arcade-style games enrich the learning experience.
Redesigned with advanced technology and updated with even more features--Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Platinum 20 offers typists of all skill levels and ages a brand new learning experience with greater benefits and increased efficiency.
- 430 Personalized lessons, exercises and tests
- 16 Arcade-style games, including multi-level games
- Detailed tracking and progress reporting
- New content--type jokes, riddles, recipes, song lyrics and more
- Type in English, Spanish & French
- Choose from new music options or import your own MP3 files and type to your own tunes
- New Certificates of Completion
- Hybrid--Works with Microsoft Vista & Mac OSX Universal certified
Platinum Exclusives
- Unique Custom Lesson Designer
- Learn to type in English, Spanish & French
- New multi-level arcade-style games
- Import your own text as Word.doc formats--be productive while practicing your typing skills
- Choose to type from hundreds of interesting articles, stories and emoticons
Learn with Mavis Beacon and achieve noticeable results quicker than any other typing program--guaranteed.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - touch type made enjoyable
This version of Ms. Beacon's software makes typing even more enjoyable to learn. It is really adaptive to how well you can type - it picked up that I was an intermediate typist after a few lessons - you can't con Ms. Beacon it seems.
A few points are
1)It would be preferable if you could customize this software to eliminate some types of lessons - for example I want to touch type letters and numbers but not the minor punctuation keys like brackets -
2)The import facility is great ... Read More
Rating:  - Avoid This If Don't Already Touch Type
As a previous review stated, the product stops teaching one keys after E and I. Apparently it was never tested by anyone at the beginner level.
There is no easy way to report this to the publisher as well.
Very disappointing.
Rating: - Disappointing...
I purchased this about two weeks ago, planning to finally learn to touchtype. Perhaps this is the best package out there, but I am quite disappointed with it. The lessons start off comfortably, with a introdution to the resting position keys, followed by drills using those keys. But on my copy of the program, after introducing the first two keys that are not directly under the resting position (the "e" and "i"), the lessons and drills jump to a much more advanced level - requiring the use of many ... Read More
Rating: - Careless and flawed.
This program offers the basic features that you'd expect from most any typing training program within the last 5-10 years, but offers little else that's impressive.
It has a heavy list of glaring flaws, however, as there are very obvious format flaws in some of the lessons (no spaces after the end of some sentences, etc). The options you choose such as double-spacing after the end of sentences sometimes don't carry over, and never do with games. There are also graphical bugs with the strike ... Read More
Rating:  - Much Improved, this is the best program now days
This program is MUCH IMPROVED! If you'll see my review of Mavis Beacon 17 I believe it was, you can see where I pointed out this programs flaws. However, these have all been resolved and this program has become satisfactory in every way in my opinion.
Mavis Beacon 20 (I have only tried the platinum edition) also has a new practice feature which I haven't found anywhere else, where you can choose from a huge selection of articles where you just type right along with the text while the text you type ... Read More
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