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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Wired

The Search for the Face Behind Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing

Jazmin Jones knows what she did. “If you’re online, there’s this idea of trolling,” Jones, the director behind Seeking Mavis Beacon, said during a recent panel for her new documentary. “For this ...
Chicago Tribune

VERSION 10 KEEPS MAVIS BEACON FIRMLY AT THE HEAD OF THE TYPING CLASS

Those of you who have been involved with 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 ...