Fact · Typing and writing speed
4.6postures per person
In the field study, participants used 4.6 different typing postures on average, at least once each.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“On average, participants used 4.6 dif- ferent postures at least once.”
ResearchIME: A Mobile Keyboard Application for Studying Free Typing Behaviour in the Wild, Daniel Buschek et al., ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2018), 2018, Hand Postures.
Open the original (DOI 10.1145/3173574.3173829)- What it measures
- Posture was inferred from touches on the keyboard during everyday typing, and every participant changed posture at some point.
- What it does not show
- A count of postures used at least once, which says nothing about how much time each one took.