Fact · Typing and writing speed
0.72skewness
The distribution of phone typing speeds has a skewness of 0.72, a positive skew, so the tail on the fast side is longer.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“It has skewness of 0.72 and kurtosis of 1.13.”
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
- A positive skew means the mean sits above the middle of the distribution, so the median is lower than the average.
- What it does not show
- The U.S. subsample has a more skewed distribution, with skewness of 1.08. The paper does not report a median.