Fact · Typing and writing speed
0.003Cohen's d
In the full phone sample, women averaged 36.0 words per minute and men 36.1, a gap of 0.1 words per minute with a Cohen's d of 0.003.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“female 36.0 (12.5) p=.002 34.6 (12.3) p<.001 male 36.1 (14.4) d=.003”
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 4: Performance by demographic group, gender rows.
Open the original- What it measures
- The full sample has about 65 percent female participants. The authors report the full-sample gap as similar, and the U.S. subsample is the one that matches the population by gender.
- What it does not show
- A p-value below .05 does not mean a large gap. With a sample this large, very small differences can be statistically significant.