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Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing

$49.99
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Developer:
Encore Software
Publisher:
Encore Software
Platforms:
Windows Mac
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About This Game

Whether you want to learn essential keyboarding skills or improve overall typing efficiency, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing® 2020! will guide you on your road to success! Improve speed and accuracy with detailed assessments, customized lessons, and skill-building games. The Mavis Beacon system includes learning tools and features guaranteed to improve typing skills in just 2 weeks!

Features:
- 430 Personalized lessons, exercises, and tests
- 16 Arcade-style games, including multi-level games
- Detailed tracking and progress reporting
- Practice sessions
- Choose from new music options or import your own MP3 files and type to your own tunes
- Certificates of Completion

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User Reviews

Mixed
7 user reviews
57%
Positive
31 min at review
Not Recommended

Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing historically, has proven its concept of matching typing and entertainment. There have been some decent entries in the series that proved the concept on the bare basic level, but nothing that ran with it to a fully polished feeling game design. For $50, this entry unfortunately falls completely flat. The entire thing feels stapled together from games awkwardly torn out of a Flash game portal, and/or previous Mavis Beacon games. This is a $10 entry maybe at best. None of the good stuff from the DOS version is here. If this game seriously wanted to do well, it would A) Re-do all the games, instead of re-using them from old awkward Flash versions. Make everything polished and satisfying (aka juicy) feeling, instead of so many awkward menus with voice-overs B) lean HARD into that Vaporwave aesthetic. I would absolutely go to Mavis Beacon's vaporwave palace. C) Treat the games like Tetris/Wario-Ware entries, where they are exciting, polished, & designed to pro...

67 helpful 2 funny
23 min at review
Not Recommended

There are typos in the prompt material in the software. (i.e. "od" instead of "of", "s" instead of "is") which causes a break in typing and cause the actual typing speed of the user to plummet when speed typing. I've gone from averaging 80s per lesson to 34 because of these typos on the typing material on each lessen. I cannot in good faith recommend buying this until it is fixed.

27 helpful 4 funny
4 hrs at review
Not Recommended

Half way through the typing session the screen overlaps the words and i cant see what im typing

12 helpful
4 hrs at review
Recommended

I started doing this so that I could type the symbol keys better and faster (because I'm learning how to code, so I'm hoping it'll speed up the process), and now I find it hard to stop lol. It's a bit frustrating when you don't type as fast or as accurate as you want, but I do feel like I've improved a bit :) Overall, I'd say it's difficult but rewarding as long as you keep at it.

7 helpful
15 hrs at review
Recommended

This is amazing! I'm 30 years old and even thought I come from a different keyboard country than U.S, I've progressed so far in just 15 hours of going through the lessons. I went from 8 wpm to 30 wpm ( around 99% accuracy), in this amount of time! Best parts: The jazz music (although you go crazy after a while) Hand navigation is smooth Mavis encourages me, she is so sweet The ability to create custom lessons!

3 helpful
27 hrs at review
Recommended

This is the typing program that a 4th grade, 5th grade class made use of to teach students to type. Very handy!

2 helpful
8 hrs at review
Recommended

It has actually improved my typing skills.

1 helpful

System Requirements

Minimum

Minimum:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows 11 (Pro/Home), Windows 10 (Pro/Home), Windows 8/8.1, Windows 7
  • Processor: Core i3 (or higher)
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: DirectX 9.0c graphics card w/ 512MB or more video memory, 24‐bit color monitor, 1500x960 resolution
  • DirectX: Version 9.0
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
  • Sound Card: Windows‐compatible sound card
  • Additional Notes: Browser version: IE 11 and later, Firefox 83.0, Chrome 86.0.4240.198, and later, Internet connection, Adobe Acrobat Reader

Recommended

Recommended:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 11 (Pro/Home), Windows 10 (Pro/Home)
  • Processor: Core i5
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: DirectX 9.0c graphics card w/ 512MB or more video memory
  • DirectX: Version 9.0
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 4 GB available space
  • Sound Card: Windows‐compatible sound card
  • Additional Notes: Browser version: IE 7 and later, Firefox 3 and later, Adobe Acrobat Reader

FAQ

How much does Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing cost?

Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing costs $49.99.

What are the system requirements for Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing?

Minimum: Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 11 (Pro/Home), Windows 10 (Pro/Home), Windows 8/8.1, Windows 7 Processor: Core i3 (or higher) Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: DirectX 9.0c graphics card w/ 512MB or more video memory, 24‐bit color monitor, 1500x960 resolution DirectX: Version 9.0 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 1 GB available space Sound Card: Windows‐compatible sound card Additional Notes: Browser version: IE 11 and later, Firefox 83.0, Chrome 86.0.4240.198, and later, Internet connection, Adobe Acrobat Reader Recommended: Recommended: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 11 (Pro/Home), Windows 10 (Pro/Home) Processor: Core i5 Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: DirectX 9.0c graphics card w/ 512MB or more video memory DirectX: Version 9.0 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 4 GB available space Sound Card: Windows‐compatible sound card Additional Notes: Browser version: IE 7 and later, Firefox 3 and later, Adobe Acrobat Reader

What platforms is Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing available on?

Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is available on Windows PC, macOS.

Is Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing worth buying?

Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing has 57% positive reviews from 7 players.

When was Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing released?

Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing was released on Jul 5, 2021.

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