typist

When did I become such a terrible iPhone typist?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026

“Using a small camera, the scanning machine takes pictures of the text and does electronically what a typist working a word processor does at a keyboard.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2024

Musk himself has already talked about a future where his device could allow people to communicate with a phone or computer "faster than a speed typist or auctioneer".

From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2024

For years, as a two-finger typist, he exuberantly turned out one major article after another.

From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2024

In January 1951, she was quickly called up to work at Fort Monroe as a clerk typist.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

Between 1900 and 1930, female typists and stenographers increased more than 10-fold.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025

This kept an entire pool of court reporters, secretaries, and typists endlessly busy for the duration of the nearly yearlong proceedings.

From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024

By recording the sounds of someone typing on a keyboard while using Zoom, researchers Joshua Harrison, Ehsan Toreini and Maryam Mehrnezhad said they discovered a way to reveal what the typists write.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 7, 2023

“Snobbery has gone out of fashion, and in our shops you will find duchesses jostling with typists to buy the same dress,” Quant once said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2023

The reason behind all of those seemingly counterproductive features is that the typewriters of 1873 jammed if adjacent keys were struck in quick succession, so that manufacturers had to slow down typists.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond