Despite having taken a typing class in eighth grade - on a manual typewriter - my typing skills still needed some work by the ...

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 ...

Many office job roles require employees to be able to type large amounts of text quickly and accurately. Good typing technique is more than a useful skill, as a mistake by a data entry clerk or ...

Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house. Prior to joining CNET, Josh ...

While Mavis Beacon's work to popularise educational typing software may have become overshadowed by her long history of drug abuse and violent crimes, we're finally seeing developers courageous enough ...

A fourth-grader logs onto an ASUS tablet to use Google docs to complete an exercise at Mira Vista School in Richmond, Calif. SAN PABLO, Calif. – Seven-year-old Ja’Niyah Smith’s first-grade class filed ...

Third-grader Tycho Sedlachek throws his hands up victoriously as he finishes his typing test. It shows he has improved his score for accuracy and speed, and that’s good news, since he and his peers at ...

Oregon schools' biggest worries about giving new online Smarter Balanced tests this spring aren't about slow Internet connections or a lack of computers; officials in many districts are concerned that ...

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 ...

Public schools in Orange County should make every student learn keyboarding — typing for those of us of a certain age — in middle school, said Bill Sublette, chairman of the Orange County School Board ...