According to the US Department of Education, nearly half of all high school students took a keyboarding class in 2000. By 2019, that number had fallen ...

Typing class is one of those dreaded high-school rituals, ranking right up there with physical education class. I spent many fruitless hours banging away at an IBM Selectric, hoping that some of the ...

Italians have brought the world spaghetti and meatballs, sleek motor vehicles, high fashion and – thank goodness – the Olivetti Lettera-35. To those of you unfamiliar with the last Italian import, let ...

I grew up on a manual typewriter, the same one my mom used to write articles for Life Magazine in the ’50s and ’60s. It was a small portable in a beat-up canvas case, and you had to hit the keys hard.

Giving a new lease of life to more than 3,500 institutes in the state that teach typewriting, the government has now decided to continue giving recognition to courses in manual typing. However, the ...

Turning off auto-correct can boost typing speed after an adjustment period, though research shows mixed results and the ...