Fact · Typing and writing speed
The authors say the rate their piano layout reached parallels the rates of expert QWERTY typists.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“This parallels the rates of expert Qwerty typists”
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 comparison is between the study's new layout on a piano and expert typists on the ordinary keyboard, as described by the authors.
- What it does not show
- A comparison in the authors' framing, based on a small number of trained participants.