Fact · Typing and writing speed
52.7percent female
In the online keyboard study, 52.7 percent of volunteers were female and 41.5 percent were male.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“Females 52.7% Rest preferred not to specify Males 41.5%”
Observations on Typing from 136 Million Keystrokes, Vivek Dhakal et al., CHI 2018, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2018, Demographics table, first column.
Open the original (DOI 10.1145/3173574.3174220)- What it measures
- This is the gender split of the sample that produced the 51.56 WPM average. The paper reports demographics, but its speed comparisons do not split typists by gender.
- What it does not show
- Gender was self-reported in an optional questionnaire completed after the test, and the remainder chose not to say.