Fact · Typing and writing speed
24typists per group
The Vanderbilt study recruited one group of 24 standard typists and a group of 24 nonstandard typists.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“One group of 24 typists self-identified as using the standard QWERTY keyboard finger map, while the group of 24 nonstandard typists said they used another, less conventional, technique.”
Ready, Set, Type! Touch Typists Are Faster, But Not By Much, Gordon D. Logan et al., Association for Psychological Science, summary of Logan, Ulrich and Lindsey (2016) in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2016, Summary paragraph.
Open the original- What it measures
- Two groups were recruited by how they reported typing, and the researchers compared the two groups' speed and accuracy.
- What it does not show
- Two groups of 24 is a small sample, and the summary does not describe the task beyond typing with the keyboard visible or hidden.