Fact · Typing and writing speed
Slow typists left significantly more errors uncorrected than fast typists, which the authors suggest may mean they detect their own mistakes less well.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“Slow typists leave significantly more errors uncorrected, which could indicate that they are less able to detect their mistakes.”
Observations on Typing from 136 Million Keystrokes, Vivek Dhakal et al., CHI 2018, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2018, Results, Errors and error-correction behaviour.
Open the original (DOI 10.1145/3173574.3174220)- What it measures
- An uncorrected error is one that remains in the final text.
- What it does not show
- The authors offer the explanation as a possibility. The result describes the online sample only.
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