Fact · Typing and writing speed
24.3words per minute
Participants under 10 years old were the slowest age group on phones, with a mean of 24.3 words per minute.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“participants of age below 10 – the slowest ( M = 24.3, SD = 13.2)”
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
- Age groups were compared for the full sample.
- What it does not show
- The paper excluded participants reported as younger than five or older than 61, so this group is aged five to nine. The spread is wide (SD 13.2).