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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Typing speed isn’t about fancy keyboards or brute-force practice. It’s about a small shift in habit and technique that most people overlook—but once you fix it, speed and accuracy improve naturally.

The iPad's on-screen keyboard is pretty good and is perfectly adequate for typing short to medium amounts of text. But there's a feature built into iOS 11, iOS 12, and iPadOS that, if you know how to ...

A colleague recently asked me, “Have you noticed that the better developers we’ve worked with are also fast typists?” I acknowledged that I had noticed relatively quick typing speed to be a common ...

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 ...

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 ...