Fact · Typing and writing speed
65percent female
In the full phone sample, 65 percent of participants were female and 31 percent male, and the U.S. subsample was 51 percent female.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“Gender 65/31 % f/m 4% n/a 51/49 % f/m”
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, Table 1: Summary of demographics, Gender row.
Open the original- What it measures
- The full sample is mostly female, which is why the authors built a U.S. subsample matched to population gender and age groups. The matched sample is 51 percent female.
- What it does not show
- Self-selected web volunteers. The gender split reflects who took the test, not the population.