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Platform: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows 95
CD-ROM - December 27, 2002
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 32
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Features
- Interactive training system guides you through the art of touch-typing
- Includes 20 levels, covering top line numeric, special characters and the numeric keypad as as the alphabet
- Over 50 typing and speed building exercises
- Learn the correct finger locations on the QWERTY keyboard
- An interactive game helps to reinforce your memory of key finger positions
- Includes sections on audio typing
Reviews
Amazon.co.uk Review
Learning to touch type is not the most exciting thing you will ever do. Touch typing is the sort of skill you try to convince yourself you don't need, while a voice at the back of your head keeps telling you otherwise. Just think: all that time you waste correcting typing errors, or searching the keyboard for the letter "j", could be saved up and used for something exciting, such as paragliding. You will be able to type while watching the screen, and people won't be able to laugh at your clumsy two-fingered technique.
Actually, although it may not be able to compete with paragliding for adrenaline-pumping excitement, learning to touch type can actually be quite fun. Focus Essential's Teach Yourself Touch Typing is a charming little package that could have you touch typing within a week. It includes an interactive game that helps to reinforce your memory of finger positions. Simply press the keys as indicated in the on-screen diagram. Not exactly Quake, but it does the job. First, though, you learn the correct finger positions by working through the various training and speed-building modules. On completion of the course, you take a series of tests and print out your own certificate. --Daren King --
Manufacturer's Description
Do you sit at your keyboard for more than an hour each day? If so Teach Yourself Touch Typing will make an impact on your productivity, creativity and ability to communicate at all levels. The ability to type at speed is a skill that stays with you for life and in as little as 4 hours (probably 8 half-hour sessions) you will be touch typing on all the letters and common punctuation characters on a QWERTY keyboard.
This carefully constructed course combined with the patience and attentiveness of the computer will make the most of your precious learning time. With Teach Yourself Touch Typing it's like having your own expert tutor but at a fraction of the cost of live tuition.
Whether you're young or old, new to the keyboard or a seasoned two-fingered typist, Teach Yourself Touch Typing can and will work. All you have to do is to make time for regular sessions until you complete the course and then you'll have no need to keep looking at the keyboard.
Using its in-built artificial intelligence, if you are habitually making the same types of errors Teach Yourself Touch Typing will give you the appropriate guidance and custom built exercises to help correct the problem. On completion of the course you have the option to print out your own certificate, verifying the fact that you
Customer Reviews
Teaching-you Touch Typing, September 16, 2003
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Reviewer: Miss Robinson from United Kingdom | This is a brilliant way to learn to touch type, it is an excellent programme although if you are looking for something with fun graphics like Mavis Beacon this is the wrong thing for you, the graphics are basic but it does the job. I actually found it much better than Mavis Beacon as it won't let you passed a level if it doesn't think you have learnt it well enough. It even tells you off if you don't do well in an excercise!!! I haven't had any of the problems that the other people who have rewiewed this product have mentioned and i have used it on XP and 2000. If you really want to learn to touch type, i deffinately recommend this!!!!!
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