There’s also a fairly high degree of customizability, including the ability to make custom lessons, and to import text (including Word 2007 documents) to use as the basis for a practice session. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing makes a few useful concessions to change -it recognizes “split keyboard” layouts, for example, though it does not allow you to select a specific model, which could be problematic if your keyboard uses a slightly non-standard layout for some punctuation or symbol keys. What can be added falls easily into the category of bells and whistles: more graphics, more games, more sound effects, all surrounding a solid core of typography. Therefore, there’s really not too much to be added in terms of real functionality the same typing lessons which worked even in the pre-computer age still work today. (And the Dvorak keyboard option is no longer included as an option in MBTT). Well, let’s face it–QWERTY hasn’t changed since the 1800s. Genetic engineering and typing two skills I’ve always wanted to master. Due to being wholly fictitious, she barely looks older than twenty-five herself. Twenty five years later, Mavis is still around in Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Platinum 25th Anniversary Edition. Back in the late 1980s, I sold software and hardware at a now-defunct store in NYC one of our best-sellers was “Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing,” which exploited to the fullest the awesome graphical power of the Apple IIe and CGA/EGA on 8086 based systems.
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