Fact · Typing and writing speed
25.6words per minute
Participants who never type in English were the slowest group by English experience, with a mean of 25.6 words per minute on phones.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“those who never type in Eng- lish the slowest (M = 25.6, SD = 12.4)”
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: Language use.
Open the original- What it measures
- The paper groups participants by how often they type in English, from native to never. The sentence in the paper is split by a hyphen at a line break.
- What it does not show
- Self-reported. The test sentences were in English, so this group typed in a language they never type in.