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touch-type

[tuhch-tahyp] / ˈtʌtʃˌtaɪp /


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"It took off like wildfire and before long people were getting so fast at texting on phones, they could pretty much touch-type on a numeric keyboard," he said.

From BBC Dec. 2, 2022

I’d learned how to touch-type in middle school, and I was a good typist.

From New York Times Apr. 7, 2021

When it was taken, I didn't even know how to touch-type.

From Slate Jan. 15, 2014

And kids are picking up computer skills along the way: watching the fifth-graders touch-type would make an executive secretary weep.

From Time Magazine Archive

I spoke it out loud as I wrote, and touch-typed with my eyes closed in a darkened room.

From The Guardian Aug. 13, 2011

While writing The Corrections, he even wore a blindfold as he touch-typed.

From The Guardian Sep. 24, 2010

It's muscle memory like touch-typing or driving a familiar route home.

From BBC Nov. 26, 2025

Pen-and-ink clerks who struggled to top 20 words a minute were displaced by typists who could top 60 wpm, especially if they used new touch-typing techniques pioneered by a Cincinnati stenographer, Elizabeth Longley.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 15, 2025

Parodying a touch-typing program that many of her readers will recognize from grade-school, she writes, “Mavis Beacon bursts out of the computer and shows me where to put my fingers.”

From The New Yorker May 29, 2014

Or my failure to learn touch-typing: now that had consequences.

From The Guardian Jun. 22, 2013




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