Fact · Typing and writing speed
57.8words per minute
In the transcription task, touch typists entered text at an average of 57.8 words per minute.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“were found to be 57.8 WPM and 176.39 ms for touch typists”
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, Typing Performance.
Open the original (DOI 10.1145/2858036.2858233)- What it measures
- Entry rate counts the finished text in a transcription task, copying sentences rather than composing them.
- What it does not show
- The paper reports that the difference between the two groups was not statistically significant.
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