Fact · Typing and writing speed
0.22Cohen's d
In the U.S. subsample of the phone study, the men and women difference in typing speed had a Cohen's d of 0.22, which the authors treat as a small effect.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“male 36.1 (14.4) d=.003 37.4 (15.7) d=.22”
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 4: Performance by demographic group, gender rows.
Open the original- What it measures
- Cohen's d expresses a difference in standard-deviation units. By the usual convention, 0.2 is a small effect. The table places men at 37.4 WPM in the U.S. subsample.
- What it does not show
- One measured effect in one subsample of phone typists. It does not give the effect size for keyboard typing.