Fact · Typing and writing speed
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The phone study's age analysis excluded 0.2 percent of participants, who were older than 60.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“Note that this analysis excludes 0.2% of participants older than 60.”
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 4, Age.
Open the original- What it measures
- The study's age groups stop at 50 to 59. The phone data say little about typists over 60.
- What it does not show
- Only 0.2 percent of the sample was over 60, so age-group averages for people over 60 cannot be estimated from this study.