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Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is an application software program designed to teach touch typing. Released in late 1987 by The Software Toolworks, the program aimed to enhance users' typing skills through a series of interactive lessons and games. Mavis Beacon is an entirely fictional character, created for marketing purposes.
When typing text selections, accuracy is required; any typing errors detected in spelling, capitalization or punctuation must be fixed by the player before continuing with the race. [10] The typing passages are popular culture references and come from songs, films, television shows, video games and books. [5]
Typer Shark is an online game classic from Popcap games. In Typer Shark you command a dive to to search for sunken treasure. In Typer Shark you command a dive to to search for sunken treasure.
From the 1920s through the 1970s, typing speed (along with shorthand speed) was an important secretarial qualification and typing contests were popular and often publicized by typewriter companies as promotional tools. A less common measure of the speed of a typist, CPM is used to identify the number of characters typed per minute.
The 2016 typing game Epistory, showing creatures with words above them: the player must type the words to attack the creatures. In 2000, The Typing of the Dead became known as the "ultimate typing game parody", adapting The House of the Dead 2 to replace the gun with a computer keyboard so that the player must type to defeat zombies.
The game features a 10 to 15-hour interactive adventure about a true blue (authentically Australian) koala named Kewala as he treks through Australia on an emu, then surfs with whales to the magical Kingdom of Eaz, as the player masters their typing skills. [2] The game records the player's progress and typing speed and will return them to the ...
Tux Typing is a free and open source typing tutor created especially for children. [1] It features several different types of game play, with a variety of difficulty levels. [ 2 ] It is designed to be fun and to improve words per minute speed of typists.
Typequick Skill Evaluator, a fully-automated typing speed test, [23] was designed to evaluate new employees' competency with handling keyboards, while identifying staff in need of training [2] by monitoring each keystroke within a chosen period and scoring the test for both speed and accuracy according to the Australian Standard. [46]