diff --git a/exercises/practice/reverse-string/.approaches/config.json b/exercises/practice/reverse-string/.approaches/config.json
index 24fddb8f3e..6623bb52d9 100644
--- a/exercises/practice/reverse-string/.approaches/config.json
+++ b/exercises/practice/reverse-string/.approaches/config.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "introduction": {
-    "authors": ["BethanyG", "colinleach"],
+    "authors": ["bethanyg", "colinleach"],
     "contributors": []
   },
   "approaches": [
@@ -9,49 +9,49 @@
       "slug": "sequence-slicing",
       "title": "Sequence Slicing",
       "blurb": "Use a slice with a negative step to reverse the string.",
-      "authors": ["BethanyG"]
+      "authors": ["bethanyg"]
     },
     {
       "uuid": "cbe2766f-e02f-4160-8227-eead7b4ca9fb",
       "slug": "iteration-and-concatenation",
       "title": "Iteration and Concatenation",
       "blurb": "Iterate through the codepoints and concatenate them to a new string.",
-      "authors": ["BethanyG"]
+      "authors": ["bethanyg"]
     },
     {
       "uuid": "894b1c9b-e256-471e-96f6-02453476ccc4",
       "slug": "backward-iteration-with-range",
       "title": "Backward iteration with Range",
       "blurb": "Use a negative step with range() to iterate backward and append to a new string.",
-      "authors": ["BethanyG"]
+      "authors": ["bethanyg"]
     },
     {
       "uuid": "722e8d0e-a8d1-49a7-9b6f-38da0f7380e6",
       "slug": "list-and-join",
       "title": "Make a list and use join()",
       "blurb": "Create a list from the string and use join to make a new string.",
-      "authors": ["BethanyG"]
+      "authors": ["bethanyg"]
     },
     {
       "uuid": "b2c8e7fa-8265-4221-b0be-c1cd13166925",
       "slug": "built-in-list-reverse",
       "title": "Use the built-in list.reverse() function.",
       "blurb": "Create a list of codepoints, use list.reverse() to reverse in place, and join() to make a new string.",
-      "authors": ["BethanyG"]
+      "authors": ["bethanyg"]
     },
     {
       "uuid": "cbb4411a-4652-45d7-b73c-ca116ccd4f02",
       "slug": "built-in-reversed",
       "title": "Use the built-in reversed() function.",
       "blurb": "Use reversed() and unpack it with join() to make a new string.",
-      "authors": ["BethanyG"]
+      "authors": ["bethanyg"]
     },
     {
       "uuid": "1267e48f-edda-44a7-a441-a36155a8fba2",
       "slug": "additional-approaches",
       "title": "Additional approaches that are further afield",
       "blurb": "Additional interesting approaches.",
-      "authors": ["BethanyG"]
+      "authors": ["bethanyg"]
     }
   ]
 }
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diff --git a/exercises/practice/reverse-string/.articles/config.json b/exercises/practice/reverse-string/.articles/config.json
index 3cce3e70c5..e9b0971751 100644
--- a/exercises/practice/reverse-string/.articles/config.json
+++ b/exercises/practice/reverse-string/.articles/config.json
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
       "slug": "performance",
       "title": "Performance deep dive",
       "blurb": "Deep dive to find out the most performant approach for reversing a string.",
-      "authors": ["BethanyG"]
+      "authors": ["bethanyg", "colinleach"]
     }
   ]
 }
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diff --git a/exercises/practice/reverse-string/.articles/performance/code/Benchmark.py b/exercises/practice/reverse-string/.articles/performance/code/Benchmark.py
index 52c14a787c..7846a0e9fc 100644
--- a/exercises/practice/reverse-string/.articles/performance/code/Benchmark.py
+++ b/exercises/practice/reverse-string/.articles/performance/code/Benchmark.py
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@
 """Script for timing Reverse String Solutions.
 
 Creates timing table and timing graphs for
-multiple approaches to reversing a stirng in Python.
+multiple approaches to reversing a string in Python.
+Adapted from code written by colinleach.
 
 Created Jan 2024
 @author: bethanygarcia