Fact · Typing and writing speed
80words per minute
The fastest phone typists in the study reached over 80 words per minute.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“The fastest typists reached over 80 WPM.”
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, Words per minute.
Open the original- What it measures
- This is the upper end of the phone distribution. The paper reports the maximum only in words, not as a percentile.
- What it does not show
- A single top value does not show how many typists are that fast.