Fact · Typing and writing speed
The sample was people interested in testing and developing their typing skills, so it is not a random sample of the population.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“This sample represents people interested in testing and developing 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, Participants.
Open the original (DOI 10.1145/3173574.3174220)- What it measures
- The authors compared their volunteers with the customer base of the typing-test company that hosted the test and found similar demographics.
- What it does not show
- This is the authors' own description of who took part. It explains why the average is higher than a random sample would give.