Fact · Typing and writing speed
36words per minute
Men and women typed at about the same speed on phones, about 36 words per minute each, in the full sample.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“They both typed at about 36 WPM with only the SD of WPM being smaller for female typists.”
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: Gender.
Open the original- What it measures
- The full sample includes 65 percent female and 31 percent male participants. The analysis excludes the 4.6 percent who did not report gender.
- What it does not show
- The full sample is mostly female (65 percent), so the U.S. subsample is the better comparison (see the next facts).