Amazon.com Product Description: Easily improve your typing skills with Typing Instructor Deluxe Edition. This program uses tested typing instruction with a fun travel theme. The instruction is organized into lessons, tests, and practice material, all aimed at making you a better typist. You can even learn 10-key techniques.
Your typing adventure starts at the Main Terminal. From there you can explore all the sections of the Typing Instructor. Typing Instructor uses easy-to-follow lessons to put you in command of the keyboard. Using teaching methods such as double and repetitive key-stroking, your fingers develop memories for correct touch-typing techniques. Three-dimensional hands help guide you to correct finger placement and key-stroking. When you no longer need the hand guides, you can remove them.
Each unique test will challenge you to type the keys you learned in the lessons you've just completed. Tests reinforce the skills you've practiced and provide a measurement of your progress as a typist. The typing tests allow you to experience sights and sounds from around the world. Travel to 12 countries, completing your typing passport as you improve your skills. The virtual adventures make learning to type fun and challenging. You may even forget you are improving your keyboard or 10-key skills.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Not that great!
This program is basically good for learning except that it is almost impossible to get to the lessons you want, especially if you want to review. It kept giving me tests on letters I hadn't learned. It is frustrating and I wouldn't recommend it.
Rating: - I am typing better!
I would of rated this 5 stars. I only rated it 4 stars because on the 10 key by touch test, it will not measure you in key strokes per hour (KPH) it only tells you in words per minute (wpm). Many interesting games to keep you motivated! Plus you can download free updates when you register online. The box I received had a [$$$] rebate included good til 30 days following purchase. Ease of use software, manual included!
Rating: - Trouble from the start!
I purchased this this program in order to brush up on my typing and to improve my speed and accuracy, but now ,unfortunately, I will be returning it. Here's why>
Typing Instructor Deluxe from Individual Software gave me problems from the moment I installed it. The trouble I've had with it is that 1)The partial installation feature is broken and it gives you a cryptic error message before crashing the program. 2)If you attempt to get around this problem too forcefully, it causes Windows to crash. 3)The full installation works, but it gobbles up 500MB of disk space! 4)Customer service is non-existant: you can't get them to answer their phone, and their website is down.
I can say that when fully installed it looked OK -- lots of multimedia stuff and games. But the exercises were strictly rudimentary, and there was just one for each lesson. This will bore you to death if you already know how to type. If you don't yet know how, you'll just be throwing your money away.
Rating: - Very nice; lots of different aspects and games.
I had learned how to type rather well a few years back, but didn't use my skills enough to keep them up to par. So I bought Typing Instructor because, first, it was a good price, and, second, I had heard it had gotten some good reviews. It was very easy to install and use right away. I really like it because you can set your own goals, so no matter if you are a beginner or just a little rusty (like me), you can easily adapt your program accordingly. There are a lot of different games and exercises, plus a program to properly use the numeric keypad. I would give this program 5 stars and recommend it to anyone in need of a little typing assistance.
- Not that great!
- I am typing better!
- Trouble from the start!
- Very nice; lots of different aspects and games.
