A colleague recently asked me, “Have you noticed that the better developers we’ve worked with are also fast typists?” I acknowledged that I had noticed relatively quick typing speed to be a common ...

Get those index fingers off your screen. By Heather Murphy For many of us, our approach to typing on a smartphone is something we stumble upon. Unlike composing words on a typewriter or computer ...

Speech recognition software has struggled to match the precision of typing. But over the last few years, thanks to deep learning and big data collection, those programs have improved dramatically. A ...

In the digital age, written communication has become a fundamental part of everyday life. From academic assignments and ...

People can type almost as fast on a phone screen as they do on a computer keyboard, suggests a study. Average typing speeds on mobiles are now 38 words per minute (wpm) compared to about 52 on a ...

Smartphone Typing Speeds Are Closing In on Keyboard Speeds It's easy to assume people generally type faster on physical keyboards than on their smartphones. But a new study has found that the average ...

You know it’s time to get a keyboard, do you ever feel like your keyboard is putting you behind, or if it’s just time to find a faster keyboard? Imagine if you could write with the speed and precision ...

Typing is an incredibly complex process, and for paralyzed and other disabled people, it's an especially difficult task simply due to the sheer number of possible inputs. So researchers are trying to ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The research also finds that 10-19-year-olds can type about 10 words per minute faster than can people in their 40s. The participants ...

Dick Pfander, the collector of NBA box scores whom I wrote about this week, was integral to getting decades of statistics from the league’s early years into Sports-Reference.com’s database. So, too, ...