Advantages of Touch Typing

I have carried out some testing to find out how much impact Touch Typing has on the users typing speed. To do this i have used an online speed testing site called http://www.calculatorcat.com/typing_test/.


This site lets the user find out at what speed they are typing, to get an accurate measure of how well the people i tested this on where doing i got them to do it 3 times. I then divided the group into 3 sections, People who can touch type, people who type a lot but not touch type, and people who don't touch type.


These are my results:

The number on the left is there WPM score. Red is for touch types, Green is for part touch types, and Blue is for non touch types.

This graph shoes that there is a clear difference in people typing speed depending on there ability. The Touch types had a much higher WPM score than any other people in my test. Even throw this is a small sample it clearly shows the difference between the two groups of touch types and non.

My Project

This is a good indication that my plan for getting the user to touch type will improve there speed. Even if they do not reach the same speed as those who touch type all the time, at least it would bring then up into the green area on this graph.