Wired

Is He Really Typing? Ask Mavis Beacon

Touch-typing – or keyboarding, as it is more commonly called nowadays – involves using all the fingers in a standard pattern to hit the correct keys without looking at them. Back in the day, typing ...
AOL

Mavis Beacon Was a Fictional Character Played by a Real Saks Employee. Here's the Surprising Amount She Was Paid by the Typing Empire

Though the name "Mavis Beacon" might not mean much to modern-day kids, to those who came of age in the late 1980s and 1990s, it surely does. "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing" was a software program ...
The Independent

Mavis Beacon was the top typing teacher in the US before she vanished. The twist? She wasn’t real

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
Kotaku

Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 2020

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 2020 Maximize your productivity with Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 2020! The most comprehensive typing instruction system now ...
New Atlas

Move over, Mavis: You don't need to learn to touch type to type faster

New research suggests that you don't need to learn to touch type to become a faster typist. Some of the benefits of touch typing date from the era of mechanical typewriters. But with modern keyboards, ...
Yahoo

Mavis Beacon Was a Fictional Character Played by a Real Saks Employee. Here's the Surprising Amount She Was Paid by the Typing Empire

But who is the woman behind the program? As Adrienne Hankin, public relations director for tech company Mindscape, told the New York Times in 1998: "Mavis is the Betty Crocker of software" Though the ...