{"id":4750,"date":"2016-02-15T01:15:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T18:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/is-touch-typing-no-quicker-than-doing-it-with-two-fingers\/"},"modified":"2016-02-15T01:18:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T18:18:13","slug":"is-touch-typing-no-quicker-than-doing-it-with-two-fingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/is-touch-typing-no-quicker-than-doing-it-with-two-fingers\/","title":{"rendered":"Is touch-typing no quicker than doing it with two fingers?"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nNew research surprisingly suggests that untrained typists are often fasterHave you ever learned to touch-type? I ask because new research from Finland suggests that, if so, it was, um, probably a waste of time. The methods of professional typists have been studied for decades, going back to the 1920s, but Anna Maria Feit and Dr Daryl Weir at Aalto University noticed that there had been very little research into how people type in the real world \u2013 something that we now do more than ever. So they carried out the first study to compare the two \u2013 trained and untrained.Their recruits were \u201ceveryday typists\u201d aged between 20 and 55, some skilled in touch-typing, some not. They attached motion-capture buttons to their finger joints, eye-tracking glasses to their heads, and filmed them typing. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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