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MY DISABILITIES DEPOT - Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Platinum 20
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List Price: $29.99
Our Price: $22.66
Your Save: $ 7.33 ( 24% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Encore Software
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Average Customer Rating:  
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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Encore
EAN: 0705381150619
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone 10+
Feature: Learn essential keyboarding skills or improve overall typing efficiency
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Encore Software
Manufacturer: Encore Software
Model: 15060
Platform: Windows Vista
Publisher: Encore Software
Release Date: 2008-02-14
Studio: Encore Software
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Features
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Learn essential keyboarding skills or improve overall typing efficiency
430 Personalized lessons, exercises and tests
Detailed progress reports assist in identifying strengths and weaknesses
16 arcade-style typing games
Bilingual instruction (English & Spanish)
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Editorial Reviews:
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Maximize productivity with the #1 typing authority - Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing®. Improve keyboarding speed and accuracy with detailed assessments, customized lessons and games in 2 weeks guaranteed!
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: This product is flawed with a major bug!
Comment: I like the style of the lessons in that you learn a few keys at a time,and have the option of going back and practicing the lesson until you feel you mastered the keys and can move on to the next.The games are a little childish for my age(31),but I must admit they are pretty fun,and I feel challenged.I type really slow (13wpm) and got to an average of 22 words per minute after my first day using this program.So it definitely works.What's frustrating is after I finish the lesson with the ie keys it automatically goes to a much more advanced lesson using letters I haven't practiced with yet.I wish I would have read the reviews on here beforehand!I thought Broderbund was a well known and reputable product.This is something that could easily have been tested beforehand and fixed.Oh well, at least I know not to buy from them again!
Matt
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Summary: This Program Is All-Platinum
Comment: Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Platinum 20 arrived in four (4) days from the time of my purchase. The delivery was excellent, thanks to Razor Dog! Once I loaded it into my keyboard which is my beloved computer called Cybernet, the program performed with great dexterity and mastery that made it more fun to use than the previous Deluxe 16 edition program. As my name Captain Keyboard implies to me as a keyboard specialist, I am an avid typist and a staunch keyboardist who is able to navigate through various areas of the program even without taking a lesson. The practice exercise make keyboarding practice a good experience. The typewriting games replace the boredom with 16 individual games designed to enhance accurace, rhythm and speed, as choices for the keyboardist's desire. This program has everything a keyboardist, regardless of keyboarding skills, needs. This Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Platinum 20 is highly-advanced and well-improved as a state-of-the-art typing program for learning and fun. Take it from a keyboard Specialist who knows the best. This program is outstanding. It works great as it looks. Choose Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Platinum 20 for your typing needs, and you are in for a lifetime of happy keyboarding. You will be very glad you did.
Customer Rating:
Summary: DO NOT PURCHASE THIS PRODUCT - BUG IN SOFTWARE
Comment: WPM (words per minute) and KPM (keys per minute) Statistics Tracking is BUG RIDDEN!
Most people may not run into the software bug that is a KNOWN ISSUE with Broderbund. That's because it won't reveal itself until you've invested 7 hours of time into the product. Both of my kids have run into this problem as their progress gets tracked by Mavis Beacon. As they approach the seventh (7th) hour of time invested into the product, all of their WPM and KPM statistics get flipped to a negative number. For instance, if my daughter is approaching 75 WPM typing while going through the guided lesson plan, around the 7th hour of classroom instruction, her test results will show all of her scores and progress as a negative number. Now she is at -75 WPM typing. From this point on, she has to work from (negative) -75 WPM back to up to zero which throws all of her stats off. This is really aggravating for me as a parent since we have set goals that have real dollar amounts tied to them if she achieves them. Heart breaking for her.
If my son is shooting for a goal of 200 KPM for ten (10) key, and on or about the seventh hour of time invested he reaches what should be 175 KPM, the stats magically flip to a negative number. Now he has to work up from (negative) -175 KPM which messes up everything that we have been tracking.
This problem exists for both the typing WPM stats and the ten (10) key KPM. What really frosts me is when I called Broderbund, they were aware of the issue and basically told me too bad. No fix in the works and no chance to get my money back. I offered to work with their support team to which they took me up on the offer. I generated statistics about my kids laptops and emailed them to the engineers at Broderbund. After a long wait period, I called again only to be told sorry, we can't help you. It is what it is.
Here is my case number is you want to look it up.
support@broderbund.com Case Number 00096750, ref:00D8LhUC.50088ZVOV:ref
For the product Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Platinum 20 651600
The case engineer, Rober H. asked me to run a DxDiag on the laptops that were having the problem. That was the extent of his request and help to me.
Basically, this company is prepared to put out a buggy product with known issues and not do anything for the customer who discovers it. I know I can't recover the 28 hours of instruction time both my kids invested into this product. They both tried starting all over twice, same result each time, but this company should have a better response to their customers than, "Sorry, go pound sand".
Customer Rating:
Summary: Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Platinum Version 20
Comment: Hugely disappointing product for a beginner. Sequence of lessons lost early on. Lessons and quizzes quickly jumped to a more advanced level requiring familiarity with keys not yet introduced. e-mail support from Broderbund proved entirely unhelpful as they failed to address the problem. Online customer reviews were identifying this problem in 2008 and it has not been resolved. Should Amazon still be marketing this product which is not fit for purpose for a beginner?
Customer Rating:
Summary: Mavis Beacon is excellent!
Comment: I purchased Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Platinum 20 for my two children to learn PROPER typing skills. They enjoy the games immensely and are progressing very quickly! This is an excellent buy for anyone who would like to learn how to type or who needs to learn how to type the correct way - no two finger pecking!
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