Fact · Typing and writing speed
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72 percent of the volunteers in the online typing study had taken a typing course.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“85% native language English Took a typing course 72% Hours typing/day”
Observations on Typing from 136 Million Keystrokes, Vivek Dhakal et al., CHI 2018, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2018, Table 1: Demographics.
Open the original (DOI 10.1145/3173574.3174220)- What it measures
- Participants reported this in the demographic questionnaire. The paper also reports a mean of 3.2 hours of typing per day.
- What it does not show
- Self-reported. The sample differs from the general population on this factor, which is linked to speed in the paper.