Mavis Beacon ISN'T REAL (Yet Still Teaches Typing)
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Date: 2022-04-14
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LS
Sheesh. All the typing teaching I got was a week of typing in 6th grade, before they decided they needed people in the Spanish class. But I tell you what, that week of typing class unlocked everything I needed to type books on a typewriter from Goodwill, and later typing away on a PC. Even today, my WPM is some insane number that terrifies my coworkers. Literally. They look at me typing and move away. And I don't smell that bad. I keep waiting for someone to scream -WITCH! - and point at me. It's just typing. Nobody here types that fast or that well or puts together long written emails. They don't know how to use Word. Seriously. When they want a printed document like a memo, they use Outlook to write it, email it to themselves, and print it out. And they won't change. Instead of sending long emails, more than a single paragraph or so, they schedule a Zoom call or ftf meeting. I have never worked in a workplace so afraid of whatever these people are afraid of. Typing and writing.
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Sheesh. All the typing teaching I got was a week of typing in 6th grade, before they decided they needed people in the Spanish class. But I tell you what, that week of typing class unlocked everything I needed to type books on a typewriter from Goodwill, and later typing away on a PC. Even today, my WPM is some insane number that terrifies my coworkers. Literally. They look at me typing and move away. And I don't smell that bad. I keep waiting for someone to scream -WITCH! - and point at me. It's just typing. Nobody here types that fast or that well or puts together long written emails. They don't know how to use Word. Seriously. When they want a printed document like a memo, they use Outlook to write it, email it to themselves, and print it out. And they won't change. Instead of sending long emails, more than a single paragraph or so, they schedule a Zoom call or ftf meeting. I have never worked in a workplace so afraid of whatever these people are afraid of. Typing and writing.
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Justyn
Oh man, Mavis Beacon. This was part of my curriculum in middle school, whichever version was popular during 2004-ish. I could never get along with the whole home row use the right fingers way of typing, so I developed the way I type now (mainly middle fingers, with the ring fingers used occasionally to nab out of reach keys, and thumbs for spacebar and modifier keys, where I can easily type 85wpm. However my teacher didn't like me typing like this and told me off any time she caught me doing it, so I typed like I wanted when she wasn't around and went back to home row typing whenever she walked by. Ah, good times. :D
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Oh man, Mavis Beacon. This was part of my curriculum in middle school, whichever version was popular during 2004-ish. I could never get along with the whole home row use the right fingers way of typing, so I developed the way I type now (mainly middle fingers, with the ring fingers used occasionally to nab out of reach keys, and thumbs for spacebar and modifier keys, where I can easily type 85wpm. However my teacher didn't like me typing like this and told me off any time she caught me doing it, so I typed like I wanted when she wasn't around and went back to home row typing whenever she walked by. Ah, good times. :D
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Nmotsch
I have a copy of it that was made for win95/98/NT. But it only runs at a max resolution of 640x480 with seemingly no settings menu to increase resolution, which gets a bit frustrating when I'm using a 1280x1024 monitor and the low resolution makes it a little hard to distinguish certain letters (although it's obviously much better than the DOS version you show here.
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I have a copy of it that was made for win95/98/NT. But it only runs at a max resolution of 640x480 with seemingly no settings menu to increase resolution, which gets a bit frustrating when I'm using a 1280x1024 monitor and the low resolution makes it a little hard to distinguish certain letters (although it's obviously much better than the DOS version you show here.
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Will
I really wanna know about all the different versions of this game. There seems to be 20 different versions and many of them are extremely similar and reuse the same assets. It's bizarre. I wanna find the specific version I grew up with but it's next to impossible since people posting screenshots and footage rarely mention what version they're capturing.
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I really wanna know about all the different versions of this game. There seems to be 20 different versions and many of them are extremely similar and reuse the same assets. It's bizarre. I wanna find the specific version I grew up with but it's next to impossible since people posting screenshots and footage rarely mention what version they're capturing.
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Josh
Actually when my primary school got a computer lab in 1992 or 1993 so grade 2 or 3 my typing was rubbish then and still is now I type at about 60 words a minute two fingers or about 30 properly but it was good I also think used some iteration of it at tafe for year 12 in 2005 just typing isn't my thing
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Actually when my primary school got a computer lab in 1992 or 1993 so grade 2 or 3 my typing was rubbish then and still is now I type at about 60 words a minute two fingers or about 30 properly but it was good I also think used some iteration of it at tafe for year 12 in 2005 just typing isn't my thing
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Nails
I did Mavis Beacon in high school and I thought she was a successful businesswoman. I admired her and wanted to be just as successful. If only I could hit those number keys without looking (still can't, only kinda, and I work in data. I'm disappointed. At least I can touch-type and do 10-key.
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I did Mavis Beacon in high school and I thought she was a successful businesswoman. I admired her and wanted to be just as successful. If only I could hit those number keys without looking (still can't, only kinda, and I work in data. I'm disappointed. At least I can touch-type and do 10-key.
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Lesley
I remember this! ---. I used to love this program! - I had the 90's version of it, with a wider range of arcade games. There was one game I could never master called -Far off Adventures- where you're supposed to type in particular rhythm to prevent the air balloon from sinking! ---
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I remember this! ---. I used to love this program! - I had the 90's version of it, with a wider range of arcade games. There was one game I could never master called -Far off Adventures- where you're supposed to type in particular rhythm to prevent the air balloon from sinking! ---
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Devil's
Looking at this just put me on a trip back to when I was in first grade. And later as a matter of fact. My school used the version shown on screen as well as a newer version later on. It's where I learned to type for so long. Never got me to get rid of my habits though.
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Looking at this just put me on a trip back to when I was in first grade. And later as a matter of fact. My school used the version shown on screen as well as a newer version later on. It's where I learned to type for so long. Never got me to get rid of my habits though.
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nobodys_winds
I remember a Mavis Beacon-ish typing game. At least, the only thing I remember is me messing up multiple times and a fighter jet crashing into a bridge. Also, the main menu took place in a library of sorts.
I need that game back in my life.
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I remember a Mavis Beacon-ish typing game. At least, the only thing I remember is me messing up multiple times and a fighter jet crashing into a bridge. Also, the main menu took place in a library of sorts.
I need that game back in my life.
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Mike_at_Root
People always come to my desk at work, after hearing my cherry mx blue switches, and become blown away at how fast I type. While I never got lessons from mavis beacon, software like this in the early 90s are to thank for my skills
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People always come to my desk at work, after hearing my cherry mx blue switches, and become blown away at how fast I type. While I never got lessons from mavis beacon, software like this in the early 90s are to thank for my skills
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