Fact · Typing and writing speed
74.5percent
In the same field study, the most popular typing posture was two thumbs, at 74.5 percent of each person's typing.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“The most popular postures were two thumbs (74.5 %) and right thumb (12.7 %).”
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
- Hand posture was inferred from the touches, so the paper reports a relative share of typing for each person.
- What it does not show
- Describes posture use, not speed. In the same study, people typed in different postures at different times.