Fact · Typing and writing speed
168,960participants
The online typing study analyzed 136,857,600 keystrokes from 168,960 participants, most of whom finished all 15 sentences.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“The final dataset includes 136,857,600 keystrokes from 168,960 participants”
Observations on Typing from 136 Million Keystrokes, Vivek Dhakal et al., CHI 2018, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2018, Results.
Open the original (DOI 10.1145/3173574.3174220)- What it measures
- Volunteers typed 15 sentences in an online test and then answered a demographic questionnaire. The keystrokes were recorded as they typed.
- What it does not show
- Self-selected online volunteers, not a random sample of adults. Most were teenagers and young adults, and many had some typing training.