Mario Kart Tour helps kids practice and improve the following skills:

Flexibility

Adapting and adjusting to changing conditions and expectations.

In any game of Mario Kart, the player and his or her opponents have the opportunity to get items. These items can provide boosts to the player or obstacles for the other racers. This game is the same way. Because all the racers have the chance to throw obstacles in the path of the player, the player has to be flexible and adapt to and cope with change. They might be cruising along in first or second place and get inked (for example). Suddenly they can’t see straight in front of them. If they are flexible and use what they can see at the edge of the screen, they will be able to stay on the track and keep up their speed. If they do not stay flexible, however, they will crash into things and other players and lose ranking.

Focus

Getting started and then maintaining attention and effort to tasks.

In this game, the player needs to be paying attention to the road, the obstacles, watching for shortcuts, paying attention for items in their path, and picking up item blocks when they can. This means they need to be using all of their focus skills. They must shift attention between all these elements. They also need to be ignoring internal and external distractions. If they don’t use their focus skills, they will struggle to get a high ranking in the races, which will keep them from unlocking new racetracks and leveling up their characters and vehicles.