Fact · Typing and writing speed
50percent of two-handed speed
In the 1996 study, subjects reached 50 percent of their two-handed typing speed after about 8 hours of Half-QWERTY practice.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Subjects reached 50% of their two-handed typing speed after about 8 hours.”
One-handed touch-typing on a QWERTY keyboard, Edgar Matias et al., Human-Computer Interaction, 1996, Abstract.
Open the original- What it measures
- The figure compares one-handed speed with each subject's own two-handed speed.
- What it does not show
- A small lab study. It gives the time to reach half the two-handed speed, not the time to reach full speed.