Learn Excel By Playing This Game

April 02, 2018 - by Tatiana Ufimtceva

There are many different ways to learn Excel, and each of them have its own advantages as different people have different learning styles. For those who like to learn with fun and real experience involved there is a gamified tool to learn Excel – Hot Key Excellence (www.hotkeyexcel.com).

Learning Pyramid

The global market for gamification in business overall is booming in our digital era. Why? Because it works! Look at the Learning Pyramid, researched and created by the National Training Laboratories in Betel, Maine.

The pyramid illustrates the percentage of learner recall that is associated with various approaches. The first four levels (lecture, reading, audio and visual and demonstration) are passive learning methods.  The bottom two levels (discussion in groups and practice by doing) are active learning methods.

The Learning Pyramid clearly illustrates that active participation in the learning process results in a higher retention of learning.

When you learn Excel via Game by playing– you learn by doing, it’s fun and engaging and increases the learning speed up to 5 times.

Time is Money – “sharpen your saw” in Excel

Knowing and using Excel shortcuts, formulas and tricks can save you tons of time! Your priority should be to learn how to be mouse-free in Excel. You increase your speed up to 10 times when you get rid of the mouse. Getting comfortable using Excel without a mouse will take about 3–4 weeks.

With the mouse-free interactive game Hot Key Excellence (www.hotkeyexcel.com) you’ll build your Excel muscle memory 5 times faster as you can learn and try at the same time.

How Hot Key Excellence saves time

And now Hot Key Excellence is free to download and you can get additional topics you are interested in right from the trial version – download free version here.

It is mouse-free Monday. You will be faster in Excel if you learn some keyboard shortcuts. I am suggesting that you try to give up your mouse in Excel for one hour each Monday.

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