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3.4hours
At 52 words per minute on the keyboard and 153 by speech, ten hours of keyboard drafting produce the same words in about 3.4 hours of speaking, before any editing time.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
- How it is calculated
- 10 hours x 52 / 153 = 3.4 hours
Calculated from
- In a controlled study on an iPhone, English text entered by speech reached 153 words per minute, against 52 words per minute on the built-in keyboard, 2.93 times faster.
- In the same controlled study on an iPhone, English text entered on the built-in QWERTY keyboard reached 52 words per minute, against 153 words per minute by speech.