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SpongeBob SquarePants Typing
Learn to type the SpongeBob way!

Dive right into the step-by-step typing tutorial that's awash with waterlogged hilarity and all your favorite SpongeBob SquarePants friends! Now kids of all ages can learn to type with SpongeBob! Get ready to master keyboarding! Navigate through Bikini Bottom and help SpongeBob and his friends compete in the Bikini Bottom Typing Tournament, and improve your typing skills along the way. The Practice Area is set in Jellyfish Fields, where you can play Practice exercises to improve your typing skills. Here you will be able to choose short passages about Bikini Bottom and its residents, as well as other interesting sea facts. enter the Lesson Area and compete in the Bikini Bottom Typing Tournament. You will compete with SpongeBob against various Bikini Bottom characters. Type your way to the Finals, where you will compete to be the Bikini Bottom Typing Tournament Champion! Games are set up all over Glove World. These games provide a fun way to practice your typing skills. SpongeBob SquarePants Typing features five exciting games with different themes to build your typing speed, accuracy, and rhythm. Your typing progress is not tracked in the Games Menu. The more advanced your typing skills, the more fun and challenging the games will be.

FEATURES:


* Arcade-style learning activities
* Game mode or practice mode
* 3 levels of challenge
* Tracks typing, speed, and accuracy

SKILLS LEARNED:

Lessons are separated into three different levels: Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced. The Beginner level typing speed is 5 WPM (words per minute), the Intermediate level is 11 WPM, and the Advanced level is 15 WPM. Each Lesson consists of a tutorial, a drill, keystroke practice, an activity, and a quiz to determine your progress. Lesson content starts with the basics and builds on accumulated knowledge. Games played as part of a lesson will only contain content learned up to that point. There are five rounds to play, and three Finals. Each round contains three to four lessons, and has a different opponent. Completing a round earns you a Certificate, which you can print if you have a printer installed. To complete each round you must pass a test. To pass, you must type at least 60% accuracy of the all of the test correctly, and you must type at least 30% accuracy for each of the letters learned in the current round. Once you complete the Beginner and Intermediate lessons, you will be able to choose one of the three advanced lessons (the Finals). The advanced lessons’ goals are based on WPM (word per minute).

Skills:
* Proper posture
* Hand and finger placement
* Home row keys
* Keyboard awareness
* Common letter combinations
* Capital letters, numbers and punctuation Lesson

 

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