Mechanical keyboards are superior for tactile feedback. Virtual keyboards offer advantages that work well for the best ...

Turning off auto-correct can boost typing speed after an adjustment period, though research shows mixed results and the ...

iPhone users often find themselves toggling between different keyboard layouts to type messages, emails, or fill out forms. This can slow down communication and disrupt your flow. But there are ways ...

If you want to give it a try, it’s available in two formats — standard for one-hand typing and wide for two-hand typing — in ...

For much of human history, written communication was accomplished by hand. Every character had to be painstakingly carved into clay or inked onto parchment. Only in the mid-nineteenth century, with ...

Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house. Prior to joining CNET, Josh ...

If you spend most of your day typing on your iPhone, there are a few tricks to help you type even faster. The best part is that you don’t even have to download a miraculous app or anything like that.

Simple premise: Measure your typing speed on a keyboard and your tablet. Part of the contention is that tablet text entry is much slower than keyboard and that a tablet with a keyboard cover would be ...

THE BALANCE WHEEL (496 pp.)—Taylor Caldwell—Scribner ($3.50). Taylor Caldwell once explained how she writes her bestselling novels: “I type very quickly. Also, I never rewrite. I don’t even read over ...

People can type almost as fast on a phone screen as they do on a computer keyboard, suggests a study. Average typing speeds on mobiles are now 38 words per minute (wpm) compared to about 52 on a ...