Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing: User's Guide

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Creature Lab
1. This game builds your speed and accuracy skills. The object of the game is to collect the
colored segments in the microscope view and complete the helix in the vial on the right
before time runs out. Once this is achieved, your creature appears on the screen.
2. To build your own creature, type the characters below the colored strands in the microscope
view quickly and accurately. The moment you key the first character the game begins.
Focusing on different colored strands will produce a creature, created specifically for you.
3. Build a single colored creature by picking a creature displayed at the bottom right corner of
the screen. On the left of each creature is a colored segment that represents the creature in
the microscope view.
4. If you make an error, the program waits for you to correct it before proceeding.
5. Beginning with the tail, type only those characters under the colored segment. Once each body
section is complete, the sectional animal icon, located to the right, will fill out a section.
Repeat this process until the creature’s body, limbs, and head are completed.
6. Track each completed creature part with the sectional animal icon at the upper right. The glass
vial next to it shows how far you moved through the current section.
7. Choose characters or colored segments from anywhere in the microscope view. You do not
have to begin at the top.
8. If you are typing in standard mode, each word begins with a different letter. For example, if
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