Typing Instructor Deluxe 17

by Individual Software, Inc.

Product Features

• Choose from over 20 typing plans or make your own
• Make your own lessons, tests, MP3 files and articles for a truly personalized learning experience
• Try new games like Sea Creatures, Wild West and Erik the Viking
• All-new travel themes - including world travel, time travel and photo safari
• Practice with over 300 different magazine articles

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000KMCF1A
• Item model number: EMM-T17
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 7, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #787 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #15 in Software > Education & Reference > Typing

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Typing Instructor Deluxe 17

The Fun & Exciting Way to Improve Your Typing!

Typing Instructor Deluxe is an award-winning product unlike any other. It's packed with just the right mixture of education, entertainment, and motivation to quickly improve your typing skills.

The ultimate typing teacher and the first product of its kind that combines powerful typing instruction, a variety of personalized typing plans, dynamic learning, selectable travel themes, and ten action-packed, multi-level games that keep you entertained while you improve your typing speed and accuracy.

Proven lessons and tests help you develop your typing skills.

Educational

• Proven Typing Instruction Techniques
• Hundreds of Plans, Lessons & Tests
• Standard or Split Keyboard & Keypad
• New! 20+ Step-by-Step Typing Plans

Entertaining

• Three Travel Themes
• 36 Travel Destinations
• 10 Action-Packed Games
• Multi-Level Games
• Wild West, Erik the Viking & Sea Adventure

Motivating

• Collect Rewards & Travel Accomplishments
• 300+ Interesting Magazine Articles
• Add Your Own Plans, Lessons, Tests, Articles & Music

Proven Typing Techniques Improve Speed & Accuracy

Typing Instructor Deluxe is an award-winning product unlike any other. It's packed with just the right mixture of education, entertainment, and motivation to quickly improve your typing skills.

Award-Winning Instruction Featuring 20+ Typing Plans

Whether you are a beginner, intermediate, or advanced typist, Typing Instructor Deluxe has been professionally designed to meet your learning needs. Choose from the suggested plan or 20 others. You can even develop your own personal typing plan./p>

Hundreds of Professionally Written Lessons & Test Improve Speed & Accuracy Quickly

Quality Lesson and Test content lets you learn quickly for faster touch-typing and improved accuracy. The use of repetitive key-stroking builds correct finger-to-key memory. Step-by-step Lessons and Tests are dynamically built from learned letters and words to build accurate typing skills./p>

Progress Reports Quickly Identify Your Strengths & Weaknesses

A variety of graphs and charts show your proficiency over time. View results for each finger, row, key, or hand separately. You can even view your personal results for all typing activities. No similar product maintains your information so completely./p>

Practice Tailored Lessons That Improve Weak Areas

Typing Instructor Deluxe evaluates your Typing Results to determine weak typing skill areas using Dynamic Learning. Once identified, you can practice with specific lessons that are created and tailored to improve your weak areas. You'll save hours by focusing on the areas that need the most improvement.

Add your own personalized material to add interest to your typing practice!

Making It Personal Enhances Learning

Only Typing Instructor Deluxe lets you build your own Typing Plans. These plans can include lessons, tests, articles, and games. You can even add your own music (MP3 and other formats). The lessons and tests can be added from Typing Instructor.

Rich Features Enhance Learning!

Typing Plans

• Exclusive! Over 20 built-in intelligent Typing Plans
• Exclusive! Proven suggested “Next Step” plans for faster learning
• Exclusive! Dynamic Learning Plans

Typing Lessons

• Structured “Touch Typing” content
• 10-key content included
• Exclusive! Over 60 choices of music
• Guide Hands for split and standard keyboard
• Exclusive! Turn Guide Hands off for “no look” learning

Typing Tests

• A wide variety of test material
• Includes timed tests
• Advancement levels tested
• Exclusive! Colorful travel destination photos and music

Saved Results and Progress

• Instant feedback on WPM & Accuracy
• Results of all activities are saved
• Progress reports by key, finger, hand, and row
• Exclusive! Bar, line, & stacked graphs
• Printable results and Certificates of Achievement

Practice Material

• Exclusive! Over 300 practice articles on a variety of topics
• Includes “Children’s Classics” – a section for all ages
• Exclusive! Over 15 dictations of quotations, travel essays, and business letters

Typing Games

• Ten high-quality Virtual Adventures to challenge your skills
• Exclusive! Beginner, Learned Keys, and Advanced levels
• Keyboard and 10-key challenges
• Exclusive! Multi-level play

Personalize Your Learning

• Exclusive! Create your own lessons
• Add you own music including MP3 files
• Create your own tests
• Exclusive! Import your own Personal

Magazine Articles

• Exclusive! Build your own Typing Plans

An Exciting Typing Adventure Makes Learning Fun

Learning to type should be fun and exciting. Typing Instructor Deluxe takes you to 36 destinations with three separate travel themes. Take a break any time at the arcade and practice while playing 10 action-packed games.

Virtual Adventure Games Make Learning Fun

Key in the correct characters in the Wild West to improve your typing skills faster than a charging mustang. Then, zap space debris in Flotsam Fighter II or soar the skies in Diamond Glider's rhythm typing adventure. Cliffhanger and Xtreme Typing challenge you in the rugged outdoors. You'll encounter the mysterious depths of the sea in Typer Shark Abyss and Sea Adventure. You can also skim the surface by reeling in the big one in Gone Fishin' or competing in Erik the Viking's exciting boat race! Finally, Tomb Typer will help round out your touch typing skills!

Multi-Level Games Are More Fun & More Challenging

New multi-level games, including Erik the Viking, The Wild West, Sea Adventure, and Typer Shark Abyss, offer additional typing game levels. As you improve, a new level offers you more challenges.

The Virtual Arcade has more action-packed games than any other typing program!

Rewarding Experiences Keep You Interested

Typing Instructor Deluxe understands that when you are motivated, you'll work harder to improve more quickly. Entertaining travel themes, progress charts and graphs, and exciting, multi-level typing games, motivate you to meet your typing goals quickly and proficiently.

Travel Destinations Provide a Fun Filled Adventure

Collect visas, time stamps, and photos in your Typing Passport as you travel to 36 different destinations around the world and through time.

Rewarding Experiences Encourage You to Keep Practicing

Typing Instructor Deluxe measures your progress and provides the incentives you need to improve your skills. You'll be rewarded as you advance to each new level.

Magazine Articles Keep Your Typing Skills Sharp

Learn and improve while you practice your typing skills. Choose your practice material from exciting articles on subjects such as sports, entertainment, medicine, literature, and more.

Create Your Own Personalized Typing Plan

Typing Instructor Deluxe is the only program that allows you to create your own lessons, tests, and articles - even add your own music! Create your own personalized Typing Plans.

"Typing Instructor Deluxe is by far the best typing tutor available on the market today. We have reviewed this product many times over the past several years and have watched it grow into a very mature typing tutorial that is perfect for everyone from the casual user to the educational institution teaching typing skills."
— Computer Times

"If you want to be entertained and educated while practicing, cut Mavis Beacon’s class and book a flight with Typing Instructor. "
— Bay Area Computer Currents

"More truly interactive than Mavis Beacon…user friendly…the practice materials for this program are the best."
— The Computer Paper

Product Description

Typing Instructor Deluxe has been the best-selling Deluxe program for the past 7 years. The newest release, version 17, is the most exciting Deluxe program ever introduced in the Typing instruction market. Typing Instructor Deluxe is the fun and exciting way to improve your typing. Educate - New and Unique – Over 20 typing plans or make your own. - Innovative – Dynamic Learning makes a typing plan for your weaknesses. - Personalize – Make your own lessons, tests, music (MP3 files and articles). Entertain - New Games – Sea Creatures, Wild West and Erik the Viking - Exclusive – Multi-level game play. Motivate - Unique – 3 travel themes for you to choose, including world travel, time travel and photo safari. - Best Practice – 300+ Magazine Articles. - Exciting – Travel theme is more fun! Typing Instructor Deluxe version 17 will set a NEW standard in DELUXE product sales and capture market share from weaker products.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

44 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works for every member of the family!, October 1, 2007

By 

Latte (OH, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Typing Instructor Deluxe 17 (CD-ROM)

We have 5 children and all of our children have learned or are learning to type with this program. The interface is easy to manage and all levels can find something to work on here. My kids like the games that come with the program, and I like the customizable nature of the setting...music or no music, texts that they provide or I can input my own.

Right now, we are using this with our 14yo, 13yo, 10yo and 7yo. The 4yo gets to try it while sitting on my lap. Our 13yo is approaching 100wpm and the other children are progressing nicely, too.

We are using this on Windows Vista and have not had any problems, even though Vista is not mentioned in the product information.

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No more hunt and peck typing!!!, July 7, 2008

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A. Saucey - See all my reviews

This review is from: Typing Instructor Deluxe 17 (CD-ROM)

This version is compatible with Windows Vista!!!!We are so pleased with this product! It has been extremely usefull for the entire family. The little one's have started playing the learning games and my husband and I have both increased our wpm. I highly reccomend this product!

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great learning tool!, February 8, 2008

By 

Marjorie J. Zachwieja "Marj Zack" (Mt Clemens, Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Typing Instructor Deluxe 17 (CD-ROM)

Typing Instructor Deluxe 17 This was so easy to use that after the first half hour I was on my way. You are able to practice the typing lessons as much as you want before moving on. And if a lesson goes well, you can move on sooner. You are advised when it is time to increase your wpm goals, but are able to keep it the same if you are more comfortable with that.