Over the past two years, I’ve typed nearly every word I’ve written while traveling on the iPad Pro’s Smart Keyboard Folio. For more on why, you can see my iPad Pro review here. For the purposes of ...

Patricia Loring, a research associate at Carnegie Mellon University, presses tiny blue dots on my fingers and the back of my hand. She tells me to adjust the keyboard as she maneuvers three webcams.

Maybe you weren’t required to sit through endless hours of middle school typing class, like I was. Or maybe you were, but you opted to write notes to your friends rather than play the part of diligent ...

My first typing class was in elementary school. It consisted of many hours of Mario Teaches Typing, and I eventually discovered that my teacher lied when she said that the game would know if I used ...

In the early ‘90s, I was an elementary school librarian and an adjacent computer lab was part of my domain. Wanting to prepare our fifth graders to become more fluent writers, we ran them through a ...

One of the most venerable typing tutors celebrates its quarter-century mark. Back in the late 1980s, I sold software and hardware at anow-defunct store in NYC; one of our best-sellers was “Mavis ...

The 7-year-olds in Natalie May’s class have to stretch their fingers across the keyboards to reach “ASDF” and “JKL;” as they listen to the animated characters on their computer screens talk about ...

Affirming that computer skills are a necessity of modern life, the Harvard District 50 School Board voted unanimously to add a one-semester keyboarding course as a graduation requirement to the high ...

At his mother’s insistence, Mitchell Chester took a typing class in school even though it was not required for his college-prep course loadat Bloomfield High School. Back in 1970, “I was one of the ...

Computer skills will last a lifetime, even as technology changes. Whether you are seeking to improve your computer abilities, learn how to use a computer or enhance your career or job security, an ...

Janet Singer stands in the middle of the classroom, smiling at the hesitant clatter of 17 beginning typists. She is looking for someone to hug. Tamica Brown, 10, stops typing for a second and Singer ...