Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The best words-per-minute tests These are the best free words-per-minute (WPM) tests that evaluate your typing speed and provide ...

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 ...

Technological advancement over the last 30 years have meant skills once rare to office workers are now commonplace. Chief among those skills is typing: Decades ago, one could ply their trade as a ...

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 ...

Typing speeds on mobile devices are approaching those on physical keyboards, a new study shows. Researchers from Finland’s Aalto University, the University of Cambridge in the UK and Switzerland’s ETH ...

In context: It used to be the case that typing at high speeds required a physical keyboard, but not anymore. A study has found that people can now type almost as fast on a phone screen as when using a ...

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 majority of typists couldn’t tell you how they type if they tried, according to a study published in October in the scientific journal Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics. The finding comes ...