Typing Instructor Deluxe 15 (Old Version)

by Individual Software, Inc.

Product Features

• This powerful typing instruction tool shows you how to progressively develop your keyboarding skills through a set of lessons and exercises
• Choose from several different typing plans that suit all age ranges & skill levels
• State-of-the-art teaching methods improve your accuracy and typing speed using games and exciting challenges
• Eight cool games and a fun travel theme disguise informative lessons
• Develop voice-touch typing(dictation) skills

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006L9HJ
• Item model number: edutx8
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 13, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,269 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Improve Your Typing Today! Computers are used daily in business and in homes. Learning to type correctly can improve your professional skills, your study skills, and your productivity. From beginners to experienced typists, Typing Instructor Deluxe can improve your skills while making learning fast, easy, and fun

Typing Instructor Deluxe has been developed progressively for over 18 years. Typing Instructor Deluxe can provide the right lessons, tests, strengthening exercises, practice material, and typing games for your skill level. You can even build your own, personal typing plan to focus on specific areas you would like to improve. If you think learning has to be all hard work and no fun, think again! For beginning to advanced typists, kids to adults, Typing Instructor Deluxe will motivate you to improve your typing speed and accuracy using a travel theme and exciting typing challenges.

Typing Instructor Deluxe had received many prestigious awards and reviews, and has been the #1 selling deluxe typing teacher for the past 2 years!

Flexible, Educational and Fun! Choose from many Typing Plans or build your own Navigate easily and choose your typing material Select plans from structured lesson content Save your results and reports to track progress Learn voice-touch typing (dictation) Travel Theme Colorful Photos and Music Eight Exciting Games and interesting practice articles

State-of-the-Art Teaching Methods Typing Instructor Deluxe is uniquely designed with easy-to-follow, step-by-step typing plans. Learning is organized into specific lessons and tests and uses proven teaching methods. Repetitive Keystroking builds your speed, Active Response provides instant feedback and improves accuracy and Learned Words reinforces keys in your memory for faster typing.

Improve Your Typing Speed and Accuracy At each stage of your learning, tests challenge you on what you just learned in the typing lessons. Colorful graphs and charts show your results by key, finger, hand, and row. Saved results from each test and lesson analyze strong and weak areas. Designing your own tests and typing plans with interesting practice material gives you the ability to personalize your typing experience.

Have fun With Virtual Adventures Methods for improving your keyboard and 10-key skills are enhanced in Typing Instructor Deluxe with Virtual Adventures. Choose from 8 high-quality games including Sea Adventure, Xtreme Typing, The Wild West, Cliffhanger, Flotsam Fighter, Gone Fishn', Tomb Typer, and Erik the Viking.

Product Description

Improving your typing has never been easier. This award-winning program uses proven and tested typing instruction together with a fun travel theme. The instruction is organized into lessons, tests, and practice material, all aimed at making you a better typist.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Program, August 5, 2003

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Dale T. Brose "nascardog" (Highland, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Typing Instructor Deluxe 15 (Old Version) (CD-ROM)

I remember this program back when it was the Lobster typing tutor on 5" floppy running on Win 3.X. I've purchased other versions over the years to be compatible with Win 95 & 98, and just recently purchased it again in XP format. The program is simple to use but not sophmoric like Mavis Beacon. I know if I could just dedicate the time necessary on a continual basis I could learn to type using this program without having to constantly look at the keyboard. The music is annoying but is easily turned off. This program saves all your personal settings and goals, and also allows more than one person to learn typing at different levels. It's an all around GREAT typing tutor.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars BEWARE OF THIS PRODUCT!, November 1, 2003

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This review is from: Typing Instructor Deluxe 15 (Old Version) (CD-ROM)

Though I just finished installing 30 other programs on my computer without a problem, THIS PROGRAM NOT ONLY CRASHED on my Windows 98 computer, but IT CRASHED MY HARD DRIVE and TOLD ME I NEED TO REINSTALL MY OPERATING SYSTEM! When I contacted their tech support, I was told there had been many calls from people having similar problems, and that I needed to not only download and install fonts, but had to download and install 4 OTHER UPDATES, including Internet Explorer, even though this computer would not be connecting to the Internet! If you do not know how to fix problems this program causes, do not buy this product!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Deal!, March 12, 2007

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DJA (Downingtown, PA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Typing Instructor Deluxe 15 (Old Version) (CD-ROM)

I purchased several copies of this to load on some of the computers in our school. These computers are running Windows XP and I've not had any problems with the program working correctly.

Its a very good training program for both kids and adults. I qualify as an "expert" typist, but I still find the games and challenges enjoyable. The students love the layout and enjoy the travel theme. What is especially helpful is the detailed analysis of typing speed and accuracy, which allows the user to pinpoint weak areas.