| | |  | | Home » Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 18 | | | | | | | Description: | | Finish work faster, save valuable time, and achieve maximum productivity. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 18 delivers lessons and games that will help you improve your typing skills and also keep track of your progress. With 10 games, over 250 lessons, and age-appropriate lesson content, this software has skill-building fun for the entire family. And with detailed progress tracking down to the individual key, you'll be able to track your speed and accuracy down to the letter! | | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 7.75 inches | | Product Width:
| 5.5 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.6 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.16 pounds | | Package Length:
| 5.6 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.5 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.3 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 64 reviews |
| | | System Requirements: | | | Platform:
| Windows Vista / Mac / Windows XP | | Media:
| CD-ROM | | Item Quantity:
| 1 |
| | | | Customer Reviews: | |
Average Customer Review:
 ( 64 customer reviews )
Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers.
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
86 of 87 found the following review helpful:
Mavis Beacon ReviewOct 31, 2008
By C. Giguere
"a real buyer"
I thought it was a fairly good product. It was easy and fun to use, it was more like a kid's computer game than an adult product. Which could be a good or bad thing depending on your preferences. It did help me learn to type better I'm at 47 words a minute verses the 18 when I started. It has a Spanish language mode and even teaches you the numeric keys. So all in all I give it a 4 out of 5.
47 of 50 found the following review helpful:
 Downgrade from version 16?Sep 14, 2009
By Lisa Ward
"Dedicated to God"
My kids got a little experience with Mavis Beacon version 16 at school and liked it, so I got version 18 for them to practice at home. They tried it out and said it isn't as nice, the games are nicer on 16. I didn't believe them, so I went to school and tried out version 16 and they are right. I don't understand. Why would a program downgrade? Other than that, as far as I can see it is a nice program, good for getting lots of practice!
34 of 35 found the following review helpful:
 Great!Dec 04, 2008
By S. Howell
I bought this product for my mother, who wanted to learn how to type faster. I gave it to her as an early Christmas present and she loved it. She's never had a typing class and this is just the thing for her, she's only been using it for about a week and you can already tell she's improving.
33 of 35 found the following review helpful:
 Don't buy! It doesn't advance properly.Oct 23, 2009
By Mom to E.M.A. girls
I bot this for my 8yo daughter. She is doing great and enjoying it except for a program glitch: it doesn't advance properly - every 3rd or 4th lesson the program gives a lesson that includes all letters on the keyboard; as I saw in some reviews - you can get through the 'advanced' lesson and then it returns to a proper progression, BUT - it keeps doing this every 3rd or 4th lesson which is a real pain. Other reviews that I've looked up elsewhere (not just Amazon) say that the company acknowledges the problem but calls it 'minor'. I guess that means they don't think it important enough to fix. It is a very inconvenient problem in the program. Putting the glitch another way: you learn, say - 10 keys - then the next lesson will have all 26 letters in the lesson assuming you've learned all 26 when you've only learned 10 - you get past this lesson and it goes back to teaching you keys 11 & 12, you practice 12 keys for a couple of lessons - then the next lesson has the whole keyboard on it once again, and this repeats time and again. We're giving up and buying our 3rd typing program hoping it will work. (The first we tried, Typing Instructor for Kids - didn't advance at all - she learned the home keys and then it stayed on the home keys forever not advancing to other keys - aahh! - We just want to learn to type!). We will try "Typing Quick & Easy" this time.
27 of 28 found the following review helpful:
Very disapointed.Jan 18, 2009
By A. Warda
I got this version after I returned the Deluxe 20 version. Unfortunately, it had the same bug in it. After learning the home base letters, it insisted on taking tests with all the letters on the keyboard. And the advanced test doesn't show up in lesson history. It seems like beginner is mixed up with advanced, which is very frustrating.
Very disapointed.
See all 64 customer reviews on Amazon.com
| | |
|
