Fact · Typing and writing speed
15.3corrections per person per day
Among the 16 people who used autocorrection in the field study, the median was 15.3 automatic corrections per person per day.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“Among its users (N=16), the median number per person/day was 15.3.”
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, Auto Correction.
Open the original (DOI 10.1145/3173574.3173829)- What it measures
- Counted from logged corrections, without the words themselves.
- What it does not show
- Small group of 16 users in a field study, and a count of corrections rather than an accuracy rate.