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With one or two fingers, phone typing reaches about 70 percent of desktop keyboard speed

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The phone study reports that with only one or two fingers people type about 70 percent as fast on mobile devices as on full desktop keyboards.

Checked against its source on October 16, 2026

In the source's own words

“with only 1 or 2 fingers, people type about 70% as fast on mobile devices as on full desktop keyboards.”

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, Study summary.

Open the original (DOI 10.1145/3338286.3340120)

What it measures: The comparison is with the authors' earlier desktop data.
What it does not show: Different volunteer groups, not the same people on both devices.

Source

How do People Type on Mobile Devices? Observations from a Study with 37,000 VolunteersPeer-reviewed research · Kseniia Palin et al., Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2019), 2019

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