Fact · Typing and writing speed
0.237correlation coefficient (r)
Across all participants, autocorrection use had a moderate positive correlation with typing speed (r = 0.237).
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“autocorrection has a moderate positive correlation with WPM (r = 0.237)”
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, correlation analysis.
Open the original- What it measures
- A Pearson correlation between how often people used autocorrection and their words per minute.
- What it does not show
- A correlation shows that the two move together, not that autocorrection causes faster typing.