Typing Tutor 10 Gold

by Simon & Schuster

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 6.9 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005JGOC
• Item model number: 0743518535
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 24, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,525 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Typing Tutor 10 Gold evaluates your strengths and weaknesses, then creates lessons based on your individual needs. And with eight exciting interactive games, practice samples from more than 100 well-known books, and 100 more intriguing samples from magazines and other sources, Typing Tutor 10 Gold makes it fun to learn to type. Regardless of your age or skill level, Typing Tutor 10 Gold will help improve your speed, accuracy, and confidence at the keyboard.

Product Description

Type better and faster with Typing Tutor 10 Gold!



Typing Tutor 10 Gold evaluates your strengths and weaknesses, then createslessons based on your individual needs. And with eight exciting interactivegames, practice samples from more than 100 well-known books, and 100 moreintriguing samples from magazines and other sources, Typing Tutor 10 Gold makesit fun to learn to type.  It does not matter what your age or skill levelis, Typing Tutor 10 Gold will help improve your speed, accuracy, and confidenceat the keyboard.

• 8 exciting interactive games
• Practice samples from over 100 well-known books
• Helps improve speed, accuracy and confidence
• From the basics to customized lessons, Typing Tutor 10 Gold evaluates your skills and sets you on a course to typing success
• Chart your progress to see improvement and results
• Play arcade style games
• Creates lessons based on your individual needs
• Makes typing fun with book and magazine excerpts and arcade-style games
• Perfect for all ages and skill levels

As as an added bonus to the Typing Tutor 10 Gold, it includes the complete Simon & SchusterNew Millennium Dictionary & Thesaurus PLUS for Windows.  Thisset of qualify reference works includes Webster's College Dictionary, Webster'sCollege Thesaurus, Webster's English Language Desk Reference, The World Almanacand Book of Facts, and the Simon & Schuster World Atlas.  With hooks tothe Web and a powerful search engine, it makes a great tool for home, school andwork.  And it is yours absolutely F

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

55 of 59 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Typing Tutor10 Gold, August 16, 2001

By 

David M. Merriman (Schaumburg, Illinois United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Typing Tutor 10 Gold (CD-ROM)

Falls short at the wire (using a horse racing expression). Great games for the young at heart who are used to video games. Software allows the new typist to repeat the verbal messages. Downside: Software Problem... (MAJOR) The whole point of learning how to type is to have a starting point and know how you are progressing. After 8 hours of typing, the software lost my data and only retainted my original WPM. (PARTY IS OVER !!!... I was evaluting this for business purposes and this took them out of the game). If you can live with losing this data, you will improve your typing and have a good time.

42 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Tutor in the market, January 9, 2002

By 

Clayton (Escondido, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Typing Tutor 10 Gold (CD-ROM)

I first used Typing Tutor when its first version came out, many years ago. I was very happy with it then, and have been happy with the subsequent releases. I am a professional software instructor, teaching applications at a university and a college, as well as in the private sector. I have always recommended the Typing Tutor program to students and people in business. Given, virtually everyone now uses the keyboard for some sort of data entry, being good on the keyboard can greatly improve productivity, in the classroom and on the job.

The feedback I have gotten from users, that followed my recommendation, and bought Typing Tutor has always been enthusiastically positive. One owner of an engineering firm, who had been a two-fingered typist, tried it and was so pleased with it, he bought copies for everyone in his company. Being able to type emails, reports, proposals, etc., etc., at 60+ words per minute, rather than 30 or less, makes a substantial productivity improvement - figure how many hours are spent on the keyboard, and what it costs per man-hour, and what can be saved.

I tried Typing Tutor 10, and did not run into the same problem the previous reviewer did, regarding loss of data. It isn't clear, specifically, what could have caused their particular problem. Actually, I think Typing Tutor should be a prerequisite to word processing. I still recommend the product and can assure that anyone using it can only get better if they use it. And they can actually enjoy themselves with the various games as they learn.

13 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Typing Tutor Crashes, January 2, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Typing Tutor 10 Gold (CD-ROM)

Several years ago I bought Typing Tutor 7 for my daughter. She used it on our Mac and learned how to type, but she had to endure the numerous crashes it caused. Later we bought a PC, and foolishly ordered Typing Tutor 10 thinking that surely a program as faulty as the previous Typing Tutor couldn't stay on the market. We were wrong. We installed the program and my son signed in and tried to get started. The comuter crashed twice in the first 15 minutes and we uninstalled the program and vowed never to buy another Typing Tutor program again!