Fact · Typing and writing speed
37.4words per minute
In the U.S. subsample, men averaged 37.4 words per minute on phones.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“female 36.0 (12.5) p=.002 34.6 (12.3) p<.001 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.
Open the original- What it measures
- The U.S. subsample of 1,475 participants was matched to population gender, age groups and phone operating systems. Its standard deviation for men is 15.7 WPM.
- What it does not show
- The authors report the difference between men and women in the U.S. subsample with a Cohen's d of 0.22.