SpongeBob Squarepants Typing 2008

Platform: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Mac OS X

Encore Software, 2007, CD-ROM

Main Features

Enjoy a kid-friendly design that encourages independent learning.
Discover, refine and test essential typing skills. Brought to you by the typing experts at Mavis Beacon.
Explore a motivating combination of tutorials, drills, activities and games.
Progress through 17 lessons and five levels of challenge.
Check out Game Mode for structured progress, or switch to Freestyle Mode for open-ended practice and play.

Product Description

SpongeBob Squarepants Typing 2008 is educational and fun, for kids ages 7 and up. Kids will get to play with SpongeBob and his friends, while improving their typing skills. As typing skills grow, kids also pick up nifty facts about undersea lifeand nautical nonsense!

Product Details

Title: SpongeBob Squarepants Typing 2008
Sales Rank: 84 in Software
Publisher: Encore Software
Platform: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Mac OS X, CD-ROM
Item Dimensions: 7.63 x 1.5 x 5.38 inches, 0.45 pounds
Package Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.3 x 1.1 inches, 0.2 pounds

Customer Reviews

Not Compatible with Mac OS X Leopard!: Despite being billed as "SpongeBob Typing 2008," this version has NOT been updated to work with Macintosh OS X beyond version 10.3. It will NOT run on 10.5 Leopard. More reviews

Good learning tool: My 8 yr. old wanted to learn to type as fast as I could so I bought her this cd-rom since she loves Sponge Bob. She has already started typing reports for school on the computer so I thought this would be a good teaching tool. The games on it are clever in that it gets them to figure out where all the letters are on the key pad in a timely… More reviews

My son loves this!: My 7 yo loves this game. He gets excited and wants to play it every day!… More reviews

Fun for learning typing: My 9 year old son really likes to learn typing with this program. There are two modes. One teaches typing step by step and the other is just for fun. It is best if they do the step by step first so they learn all the letters. If they don't, they can still play the games, but it is a little more difficult. Great program… More reviews

Fun but not really updated: I would be wary and not pay too much for this product. Even though it is 2008, it seems like the programmers just rushed to get something to market and didn't bother to have it fully compatible. I have a Mac and was perturbed by the fact that it ran under a Classic environment. OS X has been out for how long? Then why would anyone… More reviews

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