Simple premise: Measure your typing speed on a keyboard and your tablet. Part of the contention is that tablet text entry is much slower than keyboard and that a tablet with a keyboard cover would be ...

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 ...

For much of human history, written communication was accomplished by hand. Every character had to be painstakingly carved into clay or inked onto parchment. Only in the mid-nineteenth century, with ...

Think you need an actual keyboard to type fast? Think again. Researchers have found that people can now type almost as fast on a smartphone as they can on a traditional keyboard, The Guardian reports.

A recent experiment sheds new light mobile typing and text input speed. Findings suggested that the typing speed on smartphones is catching up with the speed of physical keyboards with fastest speed ...

A new large-scale study has been released showcasing data towards smartphone typing speeds exponentially catching up with physical keyboard typing speeds. Researchers from Aalto University, University ...

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 ...

Swiss startup Wrio has launched a new keyboard app for iOS which claims to speed up typing by between 20 and 70 percent compared to standard Qwerty layouts. The developers of Wrio say they achieved ...

Do you need an easier and quicker way to send emoji? Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later, but Austin-based company EmojiWorks has created a physical computer keyboard that allows users to ...

Chances are, you use keyboard shortcuts regularly on your laptop or desktop, but how often do you use them on your iPhone? While the iPhone's limited keyboard doesn't offer as many keyboard shortcuts ...

81 wpm, 100% accuracy on a hardware keyboard. It would be interesting to see the results of a typing test for programming or command line stuff. I suspect the advantage would go to hardware keyboards ...