Fact · Typing and writing speed
80words per minute
PianoText, a text-entry mapping for piano keyboards, reached an achievable rate of over 80 words per minute in two transcription studies.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“Both show an achievable rate of over 80 words per minute.”
PianoText: Redesigning the Piano Keyboard for Text Entry, Anna Maria Feit and Antti Oulasvirta, Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (ACM), 2014, Abstract.
Open the original (DOI 10.1145/2598510.2598547)- What it measures
- The mapping assigns English letter sequences to note transitions, so the typing is done on a piano keyboard with a new layout.
- What it does not show
- A new layout, learned for the studies. It is not a measure of typing on a standard QWERTY keyboard.