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 ...

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 ...

The average person types between 35 and 40 words per minute, but that same person can likely speak at 100 to 130 words per minute. Writing is clearly not as effective as speaking in terms of raw ...

Like it or not, we spend our working lives in our own typing pool, without a Gal Friday to help us out. And with more reasons to type than ever – email, instant messaging – people are getting up to ...

People hit an average of 38 words per minute when typing on a smartphone with both thumbs, says a study. Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET in 2019, and is a member of the Home team.

A decent typist can do 80 words per minute. Mark Kislingbury can hit more than four times that speed. He’s the fastest in the world, and getting faster. The 53-year-old Texan holds the world record ...

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 ...

It does not take an infinite number of monkeys to type a passage of Shakespeare. Instead, it takes a single monkey equipped with brain-sensing technology -- and a cheat sheet. Technology for reading ...