MacKiev Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Deluxe - Macintosh

Having fun while you're improving your typing skills with the world's most famous typing instructor is the name of the game with the 2009 edition of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing from Software MacKiev. Compete in typing races against your friends and family using two Macs in your home: Speed and accuracy both count as you steer racing cars, Spanish galleons and water scooters to the finish line. Practice time will fly by as you listen to your own iTunes playlists during lessons. Check your real-world progress with a retro-style floating typing gauge that lets you test your typing speed in any Word Processing Program from Microsoft Word to Text Edit. And the 2009 Mavis Beacon still has all the features that made it the best-selling typing tutor fifteen years in a row: Personalized progress reports, dictation practice, a custom lesson creator and much more. One CD-ROM and a 124-page, full Color printed User guide.

Diagnostic tests to establish your starting level

Lessons that adjust to your skills as you improve

More than 1,000 interesting practice texts

Custom Lesson Designer to use with your own text

Practice Area to improve without keeping score

Ergonomics lessons to help prevent typing injuries

Video Center to show you how to build good typing habits

16 High-Resolution Typing Games

Speed Tests to check progress at any time

Progress charts and weak key proficiency analysis

Curriculum Map to follow your progress through the lessons

Mavis Beacon Institute certificates suitable for framing

The most interesting topics to type - A thousand practice texts include classics from Shakespeare to Sherlock Homes, and modern texts from astronomy to text messaging

Create strange new creatures by typing their "DNA" in the Creature Lab game and export them as QuickTime movies!

Minimum System Requirements - System: Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later, including Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard"; Processor: G3 350 MHz or faster including all Intel Macs; Memory: 512 MB RAM; Display: 1024 x 768, Millions of Colors; Hard Drive Space: 670 MB