Amazing!
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People can type on their phones nearly as fast as on a computer keyboard -
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Who says constant texting doesn't pay off? People can now type almost as
fast<https://userinterfaces.aalto.fi/typing37k/> on their
smartphones<https://www.cnet.com/topics/phones/best-phones/> as they can on
their computer keyboards, according to a new study from Aalto University,
University of Cambridge and ETH Zürich.
Researchers gave more than 37,000 volunteers an online typing test to assess
speed, errors and other factors related to typing on mobile devices. The
results? People who typed with two thumbs achieved an average speed of 38
words per minute -- only about 25% slower than how fast people go on
keyboards.
Our fingers are likely to fly even faster in the future: As people use
physical keyboards less, the gap between typing speeds on keyboards and
phones is likely to shrink, the researchers said in a press release.
Meanwhile, study participants reported spending an average of about six
hours per day on their phones. One person managed to hit 85 words per minute
typing on a phone.
"Such large amount of experience transfers to the development of typing
skill and explains why young people, who spend more time with social media,
communicating with each other, are picking up higher speeds," Anna Feit, a
researcher at ETH Zürich and one of the study's co-authors, said in the
release.
The best predictor of performance was -- wait for it -- whether you type
with two thumbs, or one finger (does anyone still do that?). Using
autocorrect also increases your phone typing speed, though manually choosing
word suggestions doesn't, the researchers found. Age is also a factor,
unsurprisingly: People between ages 10 and 19 typed about 10 words per
minute faster than people in their 40s.
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