Fact · Typing and writing speed
63keystrokes
In the field study, people picked a word suggestion on average once every 63 keystrokes.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“Thus, people on average picked one suggestion every 63 keystrokes.”
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, Word Suggestions.
Open the original (DOI 10.1145/3173574.3173829)- What it measures
- The rate is averaged across all participants, including those who never picked a suggestion.
- What it does not show
- A rate of use, not a speed. It says nothing on its own about whether suggestions helped or slowed a person.