Fact · Typing and writing speed
Touch typing originates from the 1890s and is the technique taught in typing classes.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“Touch typing originates from the 1890s and is the technique taught in typing classes.”
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
- The authors use this to explain why most earlier typing research studied trained typists.
- What it does not show
- Historical statement from a research paper; no further dates are given in the paper.