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 ...

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 ...

These are the best free words-per-minute (WPM) tests that evaluate your typing speed and provide insight into what you can do to speed up your keyboarding skills. Each website in this list works a ...

Chances are, you use keyboard shortcuts regularly on your laptop or desktop, but how often do you use them on your iPhone? While the iPhone's limited keyboard doesn't offer as many keyboard shortcuts ...

Discover some top tips to help you teach touch typing and encourage students to put their touch typing skills to the test with Dance Mat Typing, in this article for BBC Teach.

Is handwriting better than typing? Research shows that handwriting activates the brain more than typing. In fact, slower handwritten note-taking may deepen attention, recall and overall understanding.

It may sound archaic in today’s tech-centric classrooms, but researchers around the world are digging into the powerful effects of handwriting, revealing how the act of putting pen (or pencil) to ...