Fact · Typing and writing speed
Touch typists practice finger movements so that they can enter text without looking at the keyboard.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“Touch typists practice these movements to enter text without having to look at the keyboard.”
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 sentence sits just after the description of finger travel, which is small in the touch typing system.
- What it does not show
- Describes the trained technique; it does not measure how often any given typist looks down.