The Baltimore Sun

Typing tutor includes ergonomics, games; Update: Version 10 of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing retains its excellent time-tested features and adds a few handy new ones.

Those of you who have been using computers for 15 years or so will be glad to know that Mavis Beacon still Teaches Typing. Mavis looks as good as ever. Actually, she doesn’t look like the Mavis I ...
PC World

Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing

One of the most venerable typing tutors celebrates its quarter-century mark. Back in the late 1980s, I sold software and hardware at anow-defunct store in NYC; one of our best-sellers was “Mavis ...
The Independent

How a fictional typing teacher captivated America – and then vanished

A generation of adults learned how to type thanks to Mavis Beacon. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, an educational software program, launched in 1987 and quickly became a bestseller. To this day, adults ...
TWCN Tech News

Best free tools for Typing Practice for Kids on Windows 11/10

The tools covered in this list for typing practice for kids on a Windows 11/10 computer include free software, services, and Microsoft Store app(s). Included tools are: TurtleDiary KidzType Easy ...
Variety

‘Seeking Mavis Beacon’ Director Jazmin Jones Investigates the Story of the World’s Most Famous and Fictitious Typing Teacher

Mavis Beacon taught the world to type. Starting in the late 1980s, a software program featuring the eponymous instructor drilled computer users on their keyboard skills, selling more than 10 million ...