Customer Reviews

Typing Tutor 10 Gold

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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.

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.

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!

I specifically bought this item to work on my dvorak keyboard unfortunettally it turns out that it has no support for it. Oh well it was only $4.00 very cheap