Fact · Typing and writing speed
September 2018 to January 2019
The phone typing study's data were collected between September 2018 and January 2019.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“The data were col- lected between September 2018 and January 2019. Table 1 summarizes the demographic background”
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, Section 3, Data collection.
Open the original- What it measures
- The age figures describe people typing on phones in those months, not the current population of phone users.
- What it does not show
- A web transcription task with self-selected volunteers, so the sample is not random.