Fact · Typing and writing speed
0.513skewness
The online typing study reports a skewness of 0.513 for its words per minute distribution, a positive skew with a longer tail of faster typists.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“The distribution has a skewness of 0.513”
Observations on Typing from 136 Million Keystrokes, Vivek Dhakal et al., CHI 2018, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2018, Words per minute results.
Open the original (DOI 10.1145/3173574.3174220)- What it measures
- The authors report the skewness of the words per minute distribution across about 168,000 volunteers who took an online typing test.
- What it does not show
- A single summary number for one sample of self-selected volunteers. It shows the direction of the skew, not the share of typists above any given speed.