Fact · Typing and writing speed
30participants
The 2016 motion-capture study recruited 30 participants, 17 of them female, aged 20 to 55.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“We recruited 30 participants (17 female) ranging in age from 20–55, with a mean of 31.”
How We Type: Movement Strategies and Performance in Everyday Typing, Anna Maria Feit et al., Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2016, Participants.
Open the original (DOI 10.1145/2858036.2858233)- What it measures
- Participants transcribed sentences while motion capture tracked every finger and eye-tracking glasses recorded gaze.
- What it does not show
- A small sample of Finnish and English speakers, so comparisons between groups have limited statistical power.