Discover some top tips to help you teach touch typing and encourage students to put their touch typing skills to the test with Dance Mat Typing, in this article for BBC Teach.

Many of us can bash out a text message without thinking, but typing using all of our fingers and a keyboard is more of a challenge. Touch typing at speed is an invaluable skill – the average person ...

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 ...

This slick program teaches you how to type and helps you increaseyour accuracy and speed. It’s designed around courses that includebasic touch typing, speed building, numbers, special marks, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...