Review by a customer

Straightforward simple and thorough program. There are no frills, no games and no music. It guides you through exercises very well, it asks you after each segment if you want to practice more or if you want to go forward. There are quizzes to check your progress that give you your typing speed and accuracy rate.nThe program looks very old fashioned. The lessons are voiced by a real person, but they dictate your exercises using Windows Anna voice - very metallic robotic voice with some sounds that are hard to understand, real people just do not talk like that. You can highlight and have the Anna voice dictate you any text they present in the program, but she reads fast with no regard of how fast/accurate you are typing. I almost never use the feature except where I am forced to.nAnother negative thing I experienced when I logged in for the second time. I forgot where to click and clicked on the assessment button instead of on a lesson button. The program proceeded with assessment, I could not exit out of it, and all my yesterday’s lessons were erased, I had to start over again. At this point I went to the options menus and enabled taking skill checks and next lessons without having to finish previous ones. I do not understand why they put the assess/erase your work button so prominently on the page.nThere is Typing forum feature, where you can either type a text they have, or you type whatever you want to type, and they tell you your speed. It is useful for later time when you are more skilled. YOu can print reports on when and what you did in the program and your speed/accuracy rates.nOverall, the program works well, gives enough exercise for your fingers, and I see progress in my typing after doing my lessons. I always typed looking on the keyboard, and now learning the right way, and it works great so far.