My first experiences with typing tutors were frustrating, and as a six-year-old, they were my nemesis. Sessions with the first program I tried often ended in me bashing my rather diminutive fists ...

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“Seeking Mavis Beacon” is a documentary about (stick with me here) seeking Mavis Beacon. But, what it is not (and stick with me here, too) is a documentary about finding Mavis Beacon. Because whether ...

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 ...

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For anyone who grew up learning how to type from Mavis Beacon (back in the day when computer programs were advertised in catalogs and came in over-sized boxes), this news will come to you as a bit of ...

What’sitlike to search for someone who doesn’t want to be found? Filmmaker Jazmin Jones and co-collaborator Olivia McKayla Ross find that answer through their debut “Seeking Mavis Beacon,” documenting ...

Mavis Beacon's Typing Tutor (version 11.0) is arguably the best of its type (geddit?) on the market. Having installed and run this software I feel it is the benchmark other typing tutors should be ...

I'm not sure how it's possible to keep refining typing tutor software but we've reached Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 15 so Mindscape obviously knows something I don't. The Mavis Beacon series is the ...