JumpStart Typing

by KNOWLEDGE ADVENTURE

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• ASIN: B000083JY7
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 20, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,104 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #13 in Software > Games > Mac Games > Action
  • #18 in Software > Education & Reference > Typing
  • #44 in Software > Children's Software > Early Learning

Product Description

Designed specifically for kids, JumpStart Typing gives children a critical technological edge with a product that's fun to play and easy to use.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

50 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Jumpstart typing is not for beginners, November 20, 2004

By 

Tonya L. Carroll - See all my reviews
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This review is from: JumpStart Typing (CD-ROM)

I ordered jumpstart typing to teach my child to type. It seems it is only for practice. Immediately they have your child practice combinations of letters, and never introduce them one at a time. The children can not access the games until they demonstrate a certain level of competancy (they need to type letter combinations over and over- even I was bored and I can type.) I thought the games were supposed to help them learn. I am very disappointed in this software and do not recommend it to anyone

72 of 96 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Pass on Jumpstart Typing, September 26, 2003

By 

Shannon Gaw (Roswell, GA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: JumpStart Typing (CD-ROM)

The graphics are high quality, but the interface, navigation system, and strategy are horrible and non-intuitive. Also, it seems to teach more letter recognition than typing. And of course, like most Jumpstart products, it does not completely install to the hard drive, forcing you to use the CD every time, which after a few handlings by children, quickly becomes scratched.

51 of 68 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Does not resize for screens larger than 640x480, June 28, 2003

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Todd Ogasawara "editortotech" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: JumpStart Typing (CD-ROM)

I installed this on my child's PC running Windows XP Professional with a 17" CRT set at 1152x864 pixels. The games and other features look more suitable for an elementary school age child than Mavis Beacon. However, unlike Mavis Beacon, Jumpstart Typing 2003 is not designed to rescale its window or change the resolution of the screen. So, what appears on the screen is a tiny 640x480 VGA-sized window with tiny and difficult to read characters. I manually resized (the graphics card in the PC doesn't have one of those status bar applets that let you resize quickly) the screen to 800x600 (it does not have an option to go to 640x480) to get the on-screen letters large enough for comfortable reading. My other complaint is that like many children's software, it asks to install Quicktime. I knew that the version I already had on the PC was the most current and elected not to install the CD-ROM supplied version. However, it does not check for a current version and warn that you may be installing an older version over your current installation. Were it not for the screen issue, I probably would have given this product a 3-star (maybe even a grudging 4-star) review. However, there is no excuse for the lack of screen size (or re-sizing) management in 2003.