Fact · Typing and writing speed
15.6words per minute
In the field study, the participant who picked suggestions most often, once every 11 keystrokes, was also the slowest typist, at 15.6 words per minute.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“The user with the highest ratio had 9.4 %, picking a suggestion every 11 keystrokes. This was also the slowest typist (15.6 WPM).”
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
- One participant, reported as an example in the paper's word suggestion section.
- What it does not show
- A single person, so an illustration rather than a trend. The paper does not test whether suggestions caused the slower speed.