Fact · Typing and writing speed
In touch typing each key is assigned to one finger, and each finger has a home position in the middle row to which it returns after pressing a key.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“each key is assigned to one finger. Each finger has a home position in the middle row to which it returns after”
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, Introduction.
Open the original (DOI 10.1145/2858036.2858233)- What it measures
- This is the authors' definition of the touch typing system they compare against.
- What it does not show
- The paper describes the home position as the middle row. The keys on the home row are the ones each finger returns to.