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 ...
I finally got a few minutes to play with an iPad yesterday. And after reading dozens of reports of people proclaiming that the on-screen keyboard and typing experience was either absolutely horrible ...
Another interesting design concept has started its journey on Kickstarter, looking to make the jump from concept to production. The iKeyboard, designed and developed by Cliff Thier, has been created ...
One of the main problems while typing on a touch-screen is that the user receives no tactile guide to tell you where keys are in relation to each other. Hence, placing your keys ready to touch type ...
We wouldn’t be where we are today without Mrs. Coldiron’s middle school typing class. Even though she may have wanted to, she never did use negative reinforcement to improve our typing speed or ...
Researchers at Aalto University in Finland looked at how people moved their fingers while typing by using a motion-capture system with 12 high-speed infrared cameras. They found that the number of ...
As the world transitions from analog to digital, computer skills are more crucial than ever. But—at least in some areas—formal classes may not be. A study of trained and self-taught typists published ...
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, ...
The fingertips are covered in touch sensors, each intended to be tapped by the thumbtip of the same hand. Touch-typing with thumbs on a mobile phone keyboard is a pretty familiar way to input text, ...
There are four levels to play, each divided into three stages. You start by learning the home row keys. Each stage builds on previous lessons, introducing new letters as you progress and giving you ...