Fact · Typing and writing speed
The keyboard study compares its measures by fast versus slow typists and by trained versus untrained typists.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“It shows mean and SD for each measure and compares them for fast versus slow and trained versus untrained typists.”
Observations on Typing from 136 Million Keystrokes, Vivek Dhakal et al., CHI 2018, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2018, Results, Table 3 text.
Open the original (DOI 10.1145/3173574.3174220)- What it measures
- The paper's main group comparisons are about speed and training. Gender is recorded in the demographics but is not one of the split groups.
- What it does not show
- This describes how the paper groups its results. It does not say that gender has no effect on keyboard speed.