Roller Typing |  | From: EdVenture Software
List Price: $29.99
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Seller: EducationMax
Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 3617
Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows, Mac
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Macintosh
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 10.5 x 8.9 x 1.6
MPN: ev-002
UPC: 669393328490
EAN: 0669393328490
ASIN: B000066R4X
Release Date: May 2, 2002
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| Features:
| • | Learn proper finger technique and key placement as you play through 20 different skill levels | | • | Improve your accuracy and develop speed and rhythm | | • | Strive to be the best with letters, numbers and punctuation symbols to earn a spot on Star Row or the Hall Of Fame | | • | Dodge sidewalk obstacles, do 720s on the halfpipe, and speed down roadways as you become a master of the blades AND the board | | • | Print a personal progress report to show how far you've come |
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Product Description
Roller Typing helps you improve your typing skills by playing through 5 animated 3D in-line skating events.
Amazon.com Product Description
Speedblade down roadways, do a 720 in a half pipe, or dodge obstacles as quickly as you can, all while learning and practicing your typing skills. Filled with five 3-D, animated inline skating events and 20 levels of letters, numbers, and punctuation symbols, students master their typing skills en route to qualifying for Roller Typing's Star Row or Z-Hall of Fame. Throughout, Roller Typing teaches proper fingering techniques, improves accuracy, and develops speed in both untimed and timed trials. Perfect for kids and adults.
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Great fun for kids May 26, 2009
K. Oconnor (NM USA)
If you are teaching kids typing, or just having your kids learn it themselves, this is a great typing program. It's lots of fun, so it keeps kids motivated. My only complaint about this program is that it doesn't give enough practice where kids who type slowly can still keep up. The speed drills are exactly that. If you can't type quickly enough, you cannot get through the speed drills. This is also a fun program for adults.
 typing program November 13, 2007
Leslie Jones (New York)
A very basic program. Not enough variety of activities to hold a child's interest.
 good choice July 17, 2007
P. Cox (Dallas, TX USA)
Great practice for learning letter positions on keyboard. Challenging and fun activities for practices. Disappointed, though, that it did not go to the next level of providing opportunities for words, sentences, and paragraph practices. This would be a great additions for the software creators to think about adding in the "next" version.
Excellent May 2, 2005
Victor Tur (South River, NJ)
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
Read an earlier review which slammed this product. Found my students to achieve decent proficiency in typing. I use it from 2nd Grade to 6th Grade. So what if it shows a canned movie. Yep I wish it would do provide other features i.e. a network version of the product so that I can review progress charts from a single view. However, despite these "shortcomings" this is one of the better typing programs in respect to achieving results. The kids love it and any program that gets students excited and involved is half-way there.
Can teach a 6 year old to type!!! December 31, 2002
D. Markowitz (Northeast OH United States)
59 out of 61 found this review helpful
I bought this as a gift for my six year old who wanted to learn to type on the computer, tried other products at the library and the librarian recommended this one. I installed this easily on an old pentium 166 running Windows 98. It runs better than most kids software. It does have some issues with typing too fast or too slow but frankly I think it helps you place your fingers cleanly and accurately. The GREAT thing about this program is that my six year old loves it and it is teaching him good typing skills. The graphics are very interactive, if you mistype the characters (called bladers) perform comparable to your performance. The different events, cones, cow jumping (a real hoot), half pipe, sidewalk and speed skating concentrate on different typing skills. You jump more cows and do more flips over them if you are more accurate in that event. The sidewalk event requires both speed and accuracy and is definitely a challenge. The skater skates along as words are displayed for your to type. One mistake and he runs into an obstacle and flys to fall flat on his face. The graphics are redundent but it motivates the heck out of my six year old. If you are older and too computer savvy you may not like this. Particularly if you can already type. (Though I could see how using it would improve my skills). For kids just learning to type it makes a very boring (remember high school typing class, before computers, for those readers over 30)really a lot of fun. Teenaged kids who watch too much TV and play ultra action type video games will also find this pretty mundane. But they really should learn good typing skills anyway and this would help them.
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