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45 of 45 people found the following review helpful:
Mavis Beacon Review
I thought it was a fairly good product. It was easy and fun to use, it was more like a kid's computer game than an adult product. Which could be a good or bad thing depending on your preferences. It did help me learn to type better I'm at 47 words a minute verses the 18 when I started. It has a Spanish language mode and even teaches you the numeric keys. So all in...
Published 22 months ago by C. Giguere
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
Downgrade from version 16?
My kids got a little experience with Mavis Beacon version 16 at school and liked it, so I got version 18 for them to practice at home. They tried it out and said it isn't as nice, the games are nicer on 16. I didn't believe them, so I went to school and tried out version 16 and they are right. I don't understand. Why would a program downgrade? Other than that, as far...
Published 12 months ago by Lisa Ward
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45 of 45 people found the following review helpful:
Mavis Beacon Review, October 31, 2008
This review is from: Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 18 (CD-ROM)
I thought it was a fairly good product. It was easy and fun to use, it was more like a kid's computer game than an adult product. Which could be a good or bad thing depending on your preferences. It did help me learn to type better I'm at 47 words a minute verses the 18 when I started. It has a Spanish language mode and even teaches you the numeric keys. So all in all I give it a 4 out of 5.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
Downgrade from version 16?, September 14, 2009
This review is from: Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 18 (CD-ROM)
My kids got a little experience with Mavis Beacon version 16 at school and liked it, so I got version 18 for them to practice at home. They tried it out and said it isn't as nice, the games are nicer on 16. I didn't believe them, so I went to school and tried out version 16 and they are right. I don't understand. Why would a program downgrade? Other than that, as far as I can see it is a nice program, good for getting lots of practice!
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
Great!, December 4, 2008
This review is from: Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 18 (CD-ROM)
I bought this product for my mother, who wanted to learn how to type faster. I gave it to her as an early Christmas present and she loved it. She's never had a typing class and this is just the thing for her, she's only been using it for about a week and you can already tell she's improving.
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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
Continued Greatness, October 18, 2008
This review is from: Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 18 (CD-ROM)
I have owned previous versions of Mavis Beacon and had to upgrade because I upgraded to Windows Vista. This version is just as good as the others!
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
Thought it was defective, but wait..., June 22, 2009
This review is from: Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 18 (CD-ROM)
Read reviews first and they all said there was a possibility of getting one that was defective.That after the e,i lesson it skips to big words that you haven't learned the letters for. And guess what, that happened. But I tried something. I typed those big words best as I could and then the lessons went on normally after that. It's a glitch. So I have still been able to use the coarse. For those of you who have bought this and have come across this problem try this and see what happens with yours.I bought the 18 instead of the 20 because I got it cheaper and I was afraid of getting a defective one and losing my money but it turned out I could use it any way. So I wouldn't at this point be afraid to by the 20 knowing I could skip over the big words and get on with things.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
Don't buy! It doesn't advance properly., October 23, 2009
This review is from: Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 18 (CD-ROM)
I bot this for my 8yo daughter. She is doing great and enjoying it except for a program glitch: it doesn't advance properly - every 3rd or 4th lesson the program gives a lesson that includes all letters on the keyboard; as I saw in some reviews - you can get through the 'advanced' lesson and then it returns to a proper progression, BUT - it keeps doing this every 3rd or 4th lesson which is a real pain. Other reviews that I've looked up elsewhere (not just Amazon) say that the company acknowledges the problem but calls it 'minor'. I guess that means they don't think it important enough to fix. It is a very inconvenient problem in the program. Putting the glitch another way: you learn, say - 10 keys - then the next lesson will have all 26 letters in the lesson assuming you've learned all 26 when you've only learned 10 - you get past this lesson and it goes back to teaching you keys 11 & 12, you practice 12 keys for a couple of lessons - then the next lesson has the whole keyboard on it once again, and this repeats time and again. We're giving up and buying our 3rd typing program hoping it will work. (The first we tried, Typing Instructor for Kids - didn't advance at all - she learned the home keys and then it stayed on the home keys forever not advancing to other keys - aahh! - We just want to learn to type!). We will try "Typing Quick & Easy" this time.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
Very disapointed., January 17, 2009
This review is from: Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 18 (CD-ROM)
I got this version after I returned the Deluxe 20 version. Unfortunately, it had the same bug in it. After learning the home base letters, it insisted on taking tests with all the letters on the keyboard. And the advanced test doesn't show up in lesson history. It seems like beginner is mixed up with advanced, which is very frustrating.
Very disapointed.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
This product is defective, October 14, 2009
This review is from: Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 18 (CD-ROM)
This product is defective. It has "a bug" in the code; during the first lesson, the program goes to The Chamaleon game and stays there, no matter what you do. You should stop selling this product, It's incompatible with the good reputation for quality and excellent cuatomer service that Amazon has earned throught the years.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
My copy was a dud, November 5, 2009
This review is from: Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 18 (CD-ROM)
The copy I received was flawed. It could never go past the "ty" lesson even though I tried using several players' names. I read several other reviews afterwards and noted that other buyers had technical problems as well. I would suggest you buy this where you can easily return it. I ended up buying another brand at a local store. (Wish I could have given it a no-star rating but the lowest I could give was one star. Doesn't deserve even that when the product is faulty.)
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
mavis beacon typing tutorial, February 16, 2009
This review is from: Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 18 (CD-ROM)
I had previously bought this cd to help my family(kids) improve their typing skills but lost it during a relocation move from California to Mississippi. My husband recently deployed to Iraq as a contractor for a company and asked me to send this disc to him so he can brush up on his skills and possibly go into an adminstrative position. Once again we are very pleased with the product and highly reccommend it to others who want to improve their typing. It also arrived in a timely manner. Thank you Amazon!
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