Speed, Tools & Myths
Everything that changes your output without changing your WPM, plus the claims about typing that turn out to have nothing behind them.
6 articles
The famous study showing handwritten notes beat laptops failed to replicate twice. Here is what the evidence actually supports, and why the real variable is not the medium.
A Stanford study found speech 3x faster than phone typing in 2016. A decade later almost everyone still types. What entry-rate studies miss about writing.
Monkeytype, Keybr, TypeRacer, Nitro Type and the lesson sites do three different jobs. Which one helps depends entirely on where you are.
QWERTY was not built to slow you down, the famous 212 WPM record was never tested, and Dvorak was never proven faster. What the record actually supports.
Raising your WPM is the slowest way to produce text faster. The arithmetic on what typing speed really saves, and which shortcuts survive an honest look.
Typing is still the interface for almost everything you do at a computer. What faster typing actually buys, where the gains stop, and where it does not matter.