Fact · Typing and writing speed
39.6words per minute
Participants aged 10 to 19 typed the fastest of all age groups on phones, with a mean of 39.6 words per minute.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“Participants of age between 10 and 19 typed the fastest (M = 39.6, SD = 14.3)”
How do People Type on Mobile Devices? Observations from a Study with 37,000 Volunteers, Kseniia Palin et al., Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2019), 2019, Results: Age.
Open the original- What it measures
- Means are for the full sample of phone typists, with standard deviation in brackets in the paper.
- What it does not show
- Self-selected sample. The result is a group mean; individuals vary widely around it.