Fact · Typing and writing speed
43.4words per minute
In the Palin study, participants who used autocorrection averaged 43.4 words per minute, faster than all other participants.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“Participants that used autocorrection were faster (M = 43.4, SD = 14.4) than all other participants”
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, intelligent text entry.
Open the original- What it measures
- Participants were grouped by the features they reported using. Those who used no feature averaged 34.8 WPM.
- What it does not show
- Observed use, not an experiment. People who choose autocorrection may differ in other ways. The gap is smaller and not significant in the U.S. subsample.