Typing expertise in a large student population

Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications

Table 2 Characteristics of performance groups on typing habits variables

	Least proficient	Most proficient	Significance level
Daily time spent typing (hours)	1.7 ± 1.7	2.4 ± 2.1	< 0.001
Years of practice	9.2 ± 4.7	10.3 ± 4.3	0.0119
Number of fingers used	6.9 ± 1.9	7.3 ± 1.9	0.0021
Deliberate practice (N)
Yes	277	266	0.700
No	155	169	0.700
Looking to keyboard (N)
Never	22	81	< 0.001
Rarely	176	234
Often	191	106
Always	40	12
Lecture note-taking (N)
Hand	292	200	< 0.001
Keyboard	139	235	< 0.001

Values are either counts of participants (N) or averages and standard deviations across participants