Typing Speed on Mobile is Catching Up to Keyboards

guest · Oct 8, 2019

Typing Speed on Mobile is Catching Up to Keyboards
...a study of more than 37,000 users shows
October 7, 2019
https://www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/2019/10/typing-speed-mobile-catching-keyboards/160428/

The research also finds that 10-19-year-olds can type about 10 words per minute faster than can people in their 40s.
The participants reported spending an average of six hours per day on their mobile devices, so it’s no wonder they are skilled and have correspondingly fast fingers.

“We were amazed to see that users typing with two thumbs achieved 38 words per minute on average, which is only about 25% slower than the typing speeds we observed in a similar large-scale study of physical keyboards,” says study coauthor Anna Feit, a researcher at ETH Zürich.
The best predictor of performance is whether you use one finger or two thumbs to type. Over 74% of people type with two thumbs, and the speed increase it offers is very significant.

The dataset is unique in its size and includes people of all ages and from over 160 countries.
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If you want to try the typing-speed test yourself, you can have a go at http://typingtest.aalto.fi/.
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Research: "How do People Type on Mobile Devices? Observations from a Study with 37,000 Volunteers"
(PDF - 1.99 MB): https://userinterfaces.aalto.fi/typing37k/resources/Mobile_typing_study.pdf

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