About six months ago, Kenneth D’Souza of Danbury, Conn., decided to teach himself to type. But he rejected the idea of learning the standard keyboard layout — commonly known as “Qwerty,” after the ...

Do you have very big fingers? Many users have problems typing on their mobile phones because they have big fingers, which in turn causes inaccurate typing because the letters on the onscreen keyboard ...

The number of fingers does not determine typing speed, new study shows. People using self-taught typing strategies were found to be as fast as trained typists. The number of fingers does not determine ...

The goal is to essentially bridge the gap between the efficiency of conventional hardware keyboards and the limitations posed by current touch screen implementations. In other words avoiding ...

I took a few typing classes in high school, but I admit to being a pretty poor typist. I use about four fingers in total and I've developed my own crazy finger patterns which make me look virtually ...

After the success of gesture-based keyboards such as Swype (and if you’re really keeping track, ShapeWriter before it), the next obvious disruption to keyboard technology is optimisation of the legacy ...

A new keyboard for tablet computers promises to speed up typing by a third - by ditching the traditional QWERTY layout. Researchers at St Andrews University and Germany's Max Planck institute used ...

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 ...

If you find typing on your tablet device or smartphone a little tricky with your thumbs, a new solution called the KALQ Keyboard might be just the thing for you to speed up your typing. The KALQ ...

Google is working on a compact keyboard layout as part of Gboard for typing in Hindi. This new layout places characters from the Hindi alphabet across a grid of ten buttons. Each button can hold up to ...

Voice typing, also called speech to text, frees up your fingers and hands so that you can write by speaking out loud. It's free in Google Docs and works with dozens of languages. We have some tips for ...