Fact · Typing and writing speed
Clustering the keystroke data found that most users can be divided into eight groups of typists that differ in performance and accuracy.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“most users can be divided into eight groups of typists that differ in performance, accuracy”
Observations on Typing from 136 Million Keystrokes, Vivek Dhakal et al., CHI 2018, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2018, Abstract.
Open the original (DOI 10.1145/3173574.3174220)- What it measures
- Each group was defined by the timing between keystrokes, not by the speed alone.
- What it does not show
- The grouping is a statistical result from an online sample. The groups describe patterns of typing, not fixed types of people.