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2. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing - Wikipedia

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   Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is an application software program designed to teach touch typing. Released in late 1987 by The Software Toolworks, the program aimed to enhance users' typing skills through a series of interactive lessons and games. Mavis Beacon is an entirely fictional character, created for marketing purposes.

3. Typing game - Wikipedia

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   More formal educational software like Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing (1987) incorporates minigames as a practice option. Some later games, like Type Rush, add online competition based on players' typing speeds, making typing more addictive. [1] In the 2000s, a number of independently produced parodies of educational typing games reinvigorated the ...

4. ‘Seeking Mavis Beacon’ Director Jazmin Jones Investigates the ...

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   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 ...

5. The Software Toolworks - Wikipedia

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   The product, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, was developed by Bilofsky, Duffy and Norman Worthington from Bilofsky's home in six months, with Duffy often working more than 140 hours per week. The team aimed at making the application more fun to keep users engaged, thus it incorporated large quantities of text it deemed interesting, generated ...

6. Review: 'Seeking Mavis Beacon' tracks down a cyberghost ... - AOL

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   Long before apps and smartphones, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing was a program that helped with touch-typing skills. The program's fictional icon spurs an investigation.

7. Free Typing Games: Games to Help You Back to School

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   We've collected the best free typing games from Games.com and around the web. Typer Shark. Typer Shark is an online game classic from Popcap games. In Typer Shark you command a dive to to search ...

8. TypeRacer - Wikipedia

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   When a former engineer from the hallmark typing game Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing contacted Epshteyn regarding TypeRacer, he expressed approval for the project on behalf of the Beacon team. [3] TypeRacer was listed among PC Magazine ' s "Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites of 2008". [4]

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