Your parents made you take touch typing, maybe even in summer school. The teacher was humorless. The exercises inane. You had no plans to compete in the Ultimate Typing Championship or become a ...

The number of fingers does not determine typing speed, new study shows. People using self-taught typing strategies were found to be as fast as trained typists. Researchers from Aalto University ...

New research suggests that you don't need to learn to touch type to become a faster typist. Some of the benefits of touch typing date from the era of mechanical typewriters. But with modern keyboards, ...

A new study from Vanderbilt University has found that those who learn their own style of typing opposed to the standard "touch-typing" method are about 10% slower when they type. The study looked at ...

Touch typing is a motor skill that enables skilled typists to type quickly (over 100 words per minute) without looking at the keyboard. Touch typists rely on muscle memory and their sense of touch, ...

Good news for folks who never bothered to learn touch-typing. A new study shows that you may be just as fast as those show-off keyboard-rattlers whose fingers always find their way back to the home ...