Fact · Typing and writing speed
24.5years
The volunteers in the online typing study had a mean age of 24.5 years, with 75 percent aged 11 to 30.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“Demographics Result Remark Females 52.7% Rest preferred not to specify Males 41.5% Age: mean 24.5”
Observations on Typing from 136 Million Keystrokes, Vivek Dhakal et al., CHI 2018, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2018, Table 1: Demographics.
Open the original (DOI 10.1145/3173574.3174220)- What it measures
- Age and gender came from the demographic questionnaire filled in after the test. The table also gives 52.7 percent female and 41.5 percent male.
- What it does not show
- The mean age is of a self-selected online sample, not of the adult population.