Fact · Typing and writing speed
In the office study, workers kept their typing speed up in the morning and, as a result, made more errors to correct.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“In the morning, workers first maintain typing speed during prolonged task performance, which resulted in an increased number of typing errors they had to correct.”
Dynamics in typewriting performance reflect mental fatigue during real-life office work, Marlon de Jong et al., PLoS ONE, 2020, Abstract.
Open the original (DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0239984)- What it measures
- The finding is about the trade-off between speed and accuracy over a working day.
- What it does not show
- The finding comes from one workforce, so it shows a pattern, not a rule for every typist.