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    Many Americans use smartphones for most or all their day-to-day conmmunication activities.
    One result is that people have gotten faster and better at typing Emails and text messages on their phones.
    But how fast are we at using an electronic device compare to typing words on the traditional and physical keyboard?
    A new study has some answers. A team of researchers carried out an experiment. It involved more than 37,000 volunteers from over 160 countries.
    The study was a project of researchers form Finland’s Alt University, England’s University of Cambridge and ETH Zurich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. They used an internet-based system to test the typing speed of people on their smartphones. On average, the volunteers estimated they spend about 6 hours a day using their phones. The majority said they use two thumbs to wirte messages.
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    2020-02-29

    Both android and iphone users were tested, and most said they used their device’s standard keyboard.
    The volunteers were given 15 English sentences to type out on their phones as quickly and accurately as possible. The researcher team found that on average people wrote about 36 words per minute.Those testers made a typing mistake 2.3 percent of the time.
    The researchers know(noted) that 36 words per minute it about 25 percent slower than their average rate for people using a computer keyboard. In a 2018 university of Cambriage study, The average speed for computer typists was about 52 word per minute.
    The researchers noted one reason for the narrowing of speed rates between smartphones and computers. They said people have become slower at typing on keyboard over the years.
    75 percent of those taking part in study had typing speeds below 44 words per minute. But the fastest phone typists reached speed over 80 words per minute.
    The published results show there was no different between males or females in the typing speed.
    Subjects who reported using two thumbs or two fingers which reached speeds of 38 words per minute. Those who said they used only one finger typed 29 words per minute.
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    Among age groups(各个年龄组之间), the fastest typists on an electronic device were between 10 and 19 years old, they typed nearly 40 words per minute. People aged 40 to 49 wrote about 29 words per minute. And the rate dropped to 26 words per minute for those aged 50 to 59.
    Anna Feit, a researcher at ETH Zurich, helped lead the study . She said it make sense that young people have higher typing speed because they generally spent a lot more time on their devices.
    “Such a large amount of experiment transfers to the development of typing skill.” Feit said. “And explains why young people who spent more time with social media communicating with each other are picking up higher speeds.”
    The researchers also found that a phone’automical correct tool can be extremely helpful. Users were able to type faster than those without the correct tool. But word prediction tools were not very helpful to users in the experiment, noted University researchers Sunjun Kim.
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    The given understanding is that techniques like word completion help people , Kim said. But what we found out is the time spent thinking about the word suggestions often outweighs the time it would take you to type the letters. Makeing you slower overall.
    The researchers call the difference between typing words on smartphone and physical keyboard the typing gap. They predict this gap will further narrow in the future as people get less skilled with keyboards and smart message for typing on devices continue to improve.
    I’m Bryan Lynn