Before T9, texting on mobile phones was a tedious affair, requiring multiple presses per letter. In 1991, Bellcore engineer ...

It looks like people are getting pretty good at typing on their phones. A new study claims that typing speeds are now nearly as fast on phones as on traditional computer keyboards. The researchers had ...

Good typing speeds are relative to job descriptions. For example, data entry positions usually require 60-80 words per minute. Medical transcriptionists, paralegals and executive secretaries should be ...

The largest experiment to date on mobile typing sheds new light on average performance of touchscreen typing and factors impacting the text input speed. Researchers analyzed the typing speed of tens ...

Discover some top tips to help you teach touch typing and encourage students to put their touch typing skills to the test with Dance Mat Typing, in this article for BBC Teach.

New research suggests that you don't need to learn to touch type to become a faster typist. Some of the benefits of touch typing date from the era of mechanical typewriters. But with modern keyboards, ...

Despite their popularity, tablets get knocked on productivity—largely because entering data on them is slow and cumbersome. But that doesn’t mean you have to boot up your laptop every time you need to ...

After the success of gesture-based keyboards such as Swype (and if you’re really keeping track, ShapeWriter before it), the next obvious disruption to keyboard technology is optimisation of the legacy ...

Welcome to the world of competitive typing, where hands fly across keyboards — remember those? — and there’s nary an LOL in sight. By Kenneth Sturtz See more of our coverage in your search ...