Fact · Typing and writing speed
The online typing test's users were mainly younger people from the US who wanted to test and improve their typing, so the sample is not representative of all typists.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“The user base of the company is composed mainly of younger people from the US who are interested in testing and improving their typing skills.”
Observations on Typing from 136 Million Keystrokes, Vivek Dhakal et al., CHI 2018, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2018, Method, participants.
Open the original (DOI 10.1145/3173574.3174220)- What it measures
- The paper calls its participants self-selected volunteers who took the online test.
- What it does not show
- The paper describes its sample as similar to the company's customer base; it does not weight the results to the general population.