It was once an undervalued skill limited to clerks and secretaries working in the company typing pool. But in 2017 the ability to touch type at speed is seen as an essential asset in the jobs market.

Your parents made you take touch typing, maybe even in summer school. The teacher was humourless, the exercises inane. You had no plans to compete in the Ultimate Typing Championship or become a ...

What is your typing style? Are you a hovering helicopter or perhaps your fingers peck at the keys? According to Dr Bronwyn Batchelor, head of faculty law at the Independent Institute of Education, ...

You still type on a keyboard? In a time of transcription software and autocorrect, the old touch type approach to writing texts seems a bit outdated. Is learning to type properly even worth the effort ...

Touch typing is a motor skill that enables skilled typists to type quickly (over 100 words per minute) without looking at the keyboard. Touch typists rely on muscle memory and their sense of touch, ...

We wouldn’t be where we are today without Mrs. Coldiron’s middle school typing class. Even though she may have wanted to, she never did use negative reinforcement to improve our typing speed or ...

“Everyone can learn to touch type,” says Liz Davies, Senior Trainer at Pitman Training, “and once learned, you retain the skill for life.” Davies should know; she is, after all, responsible for ...

You might recognize Fleksy from their recent victory at Tech Cocktail’s SXSW mixer where they took home best in show. Add that victory to their already large cache of awards, and you see why Kostas ...