Nessy Fingers
by Net Educational Systems Ltd
The most fun you'll ever have learning to type
Nessy Fingers touch typing helps improve spelling and keyboard skills. Key positions are taught in the sequence of the alphabet for rapid learning in 5 short lessons. Nine fun games and awards motivate practice.
Nessy Fingers will teach you to type safely, accurately and quickly
Play at home or school. Nessy Fingers is simple to use and easy to setup. You will soon become a confident master of the keyboard.
“This is the best typing program I have seen.” – Hazel Woods, ICT Technical Advisor
- Explore the land of Ness and play 9 fantastic games
- In the Dungeon of Doom battle dragons, skeletons and ghosts
- On Monkey Island play penalty shootout with Burt the boss gorilla
- At Penguin Mountains crush Rocky under a giant snowball
- Win bigger and better trophies, medals and awards in the Hall of Fame
Nessy Fingers gives you a flying start at school. Master the keyboard to learn a lifelong skill.
Nessy is so easy to use you can work independently. You will soon see significant improvements in confidence and self-esteem. Nessy fingers is a powerful way to improve spelling by developing your memory for movement.
Nessy Fingers teaches the three skills needed to touch type:
- Memorise key positions – learn correct finger placement and posture
- Accuracy – an early emphasis upon typing accurately
- Speed – games motivate practice. Practice develops speed.
Features and Benefits
- Type safely – Limber your fingers when the ‘Take a Break’ button appears
- Improve presentation – Especially helpful for those with slow or untidy handwriting
- Boost confidence – Develops the ability to work independently
- Speed up – Complete homework more quickly
- Concentrate for longer – Engaging lessons and games focus attention
- All abilities succeed – A multisensory learning environment designed by specialist teachers
- Play again and again
- Rapid learning in just 5 short lessons
- Swim as Nessy to set personal speed and accuracy targets
- Type to your own tunes! Import mp3s to play with the games.
- A wide range of options to personalise settings
- Stickers to cover the keys and ensure learning is by touch
- Colour coding to aid fast learning
You can type using your own words. Nessy Fingers includes 233 word lists. Words become progressively harder to improve both spelling and basic punctuation. You can even create your own lists of words and sentences!
Requirements and ResourcesexpandClick to collapse
Minimum System Requirements
- Windows
- Operating System: Windows XP, Vista, 7 (including 64-bit)
- System RAM: 256 (512 MB if Vista)
- Hard Drive Space: 100 MB
- Processor: 1.6 GHz
- Sound card, speakers or headphones
- Video/graphics card: 32 MB
- CD-ROM drive (Single User Licence)
- Operating System: Windows XP, Vista, 7 (including 64-bit)
- Mac
- Operating System: Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
- CD-ROM drive (Single User Licence)
- Operating System: Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
View / Download
- Free Nessy Fingers Demo for PC (.zip 35 MB)
- Free Nessy Fingers Demo for Mac (.zip 40 MB)
Nessy Fingers is targeted at the following age ranges:
- Mid Primary
- Upper Primary
- Secondary School
- Adult
Nessy Fingers is designed to foster development in the areas of:
- Keyboard familiarity
Users can access Nessy Fingers in the following ways:
- Keyboard
For answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and technical support visit:
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