Fact · Typing and writing speed
32.8words per minute
In the Palin study, people who reported word prediction alone averaged 32.8 words per minute, against 34.8 for people who used no intelligent text entry feature.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“none 34.8 (12.6) 2.3 1.2 42.6 (14.7) 2.2 1.2 P 32.8 (12.1) 2.3 1.2 35.4 (15.1) 2.2 1.1 A 43.4 (14.4) 2.4 1.2 46.1 (14.4) 2.3 1.2 G 32.2 (13.4)”
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, Table 5.
Open the original- What it measures
- Table 5 gives each combination of prediction (P), autocorrection (A) and gesture (G) use. The prediction-only row is shown here.
- What it does not show
- Self-reported use, not an experiment. The gap is small, and the correlation with speed is negative but weak.