{"id":30,"date":"2006-08-22T18:06:30","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T16:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/softonic-en-dev.elussier.redtonic\/blog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2025-07-02T03:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T10:02:09","slug":"shareware-vault-mavis-beacon-typing-tutor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/shareware-vault-mavis-beacon-typing-tutor\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavis Beacon Typing Tutor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She may now have retired, but <strong>Mavis Beacon<\/strong> is still fondly remembered at Softonic HQ. The badly-rendered typing guru has always been regarded as the digital equivalent of a favorite aunt and is part of the reason why Softonic&#8217;s blog posts are written so quickly.<\/p>\n<p>The application was designed to <strong>help you learn to touch-type<\/strong> or <strong>improve your typing speed<\/strong> and accuracy. The original version taught you by displaying the layout of a keyboard along with transparent fingers to explain where your hands should be hovering. Mavis would then bark orders, getting you to type what she was saying, and gradually getting faster.<\/p>\n<p>The idea was that after a few hours in Mavis&#8217; company you&#8217;d be able to touch-type with ease. It didn&#8217;t do a bad job, but typing tutors have evolved a lot since Ms Beacon&#8217;s era. For instance, <a href=\"http:\/\/maxtype-typing-tutor.en.softonic.com\/\">MaxType Typing Tutor<\/a> allows you not only to test and practice your typing skills with any *.txt file, but to print out test &#8216;diplomas&#8217; statistical data, which will give you the information about 20 parameters of your typing and even replay the mtr-record file of your own typing. For younger users, the wonderfully silly <a href=\"http:\/\/tux_typing.en.softonic.com\/\">Tux Typing<\/a> is full of enough fun and games to keep kids&#8217; fingers tapping for a long time.<\/p>\n<h3>If you want to check out more tools to help you type like a pro, take a look <a href=\"http:\/\/en.softonic.com\/windows\/typing-software\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She may now have retired, but Mavis Beacon is still fondly remembered at Softonic HQ. The badly-rendered typing guru has always been regarded as the digital equivalent of a favorite aunt and is part of the reason why Softonic&#8217;s blog posts are written so quickly. The application was designed to help you learn to touch-type &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/shareware-vault-mavis-beacon-typing-tutor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mavis Beacon Typing Tutor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338088,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/338088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}