The largest experiment to date on mobile typing sheds new light on average performance of touchscreen typing and factors impacting the text input speed. Researchers analyzed the typing speed of tens ...

Many office job roles require employees to be able to type large amounts of text quickly and accurately. Good typing technique is more than a useful skill, as a mistake by a data entry clerk or ...

It looks like people are getting pretty good at typing on their phones. A new study claims that typing speeds are now nearly as fast on phones as on traditional computer keyboards. The researchers had ...

The number of fingers does not determine typing speed, new study shows. People using self-taught typing strategies were found to be as fast as trained typists. Researchers from Aalto University ...

For much of human history, written communication was accomplished by hand. Every character had to be painstakingly carved into clay or inked onto parchment. Only in the mid-nineteenth century, with ...

People can type almost as fast on a phone screen as they do on a computer keyboard, suggests a study. Average typing speeds on mobiles are now 38 words per minute (wpm) compared to about 52 on a ...

Good typing speeds are relative to job descriptions. For example, data entry positions usually require 60-80 words per minute. Medical transcriptionists, paralegals and executive secretaries should be ...

Welcome to the world of competitive typing, where hands fly across keyboards — remember those? — and there’s nary an LOL in sight. By Kenneth Sturtz See more of our coverage in your search ...

Smartphone Typing Speeds Are Closing In on Keyboard Speeds It's easy to assume people generally type faster on physical keyboards than on their smartphones. But a new study has found that the average ...

Although I type a lot more on my desktop, I care about the typing experience on phones. I wasn’t a fan of typing on my handset, but Gboard changed my mind. This is not to say that I started to love ...