Fact · Typing and writing speed
The 2013 tablet study concluded that a virtual QWERTY keyboard without visual changes was the fastest method for text entry among the ones it tested.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“a virtual QWERTY keyboard without visual changes is the fastest method for text entry”
Improving text entry performance on tablet devices, Élvio Rodrigues et al., Eurographics conference proceedings (Eurographics, DOI 10.2312/pt20131347), 2013, Abstract.
Open the original (DOI 10.2312/pt20131347)- What it measures
- The five variants changed key sizes, touch handling or highlighting, and none of them beat the plain keyboard on speed.
- What it does not show
- Twenty young adults on one tablet setup. The conclusion covers the variants tested, not all keyboards.