Mavis Beacon's beautiful interface, iTunes integration, spot-on lessons and engaging practice material are perfect for learning how to type.

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.

Not even MS-DOS made it to Version 10. Broderbund’s Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is by far the longest-lived program I know. The copyright goes back to 1987, but somehow it seems older to me.

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 ...

Mavis Beacon is the titular teacher in ‘Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing’, an educational program that became a bestseller after its launch in 1987. Clémence Michallon documents the making of an icon ...

The filmmakers behind “Seeking Mavis Beacon” wanted to know what happened to the Black woman who was paid only a couple hundred dollars to be the face of a wildly successful typing program. To ...

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 ...