Despite their high awareness of technology, Zoomers have poor keyboarding skills. We are talking about the generation of people born from the late 1990s to the late 2000s. Techspot writes about this with reference to a study by The Wall Street Journal, which analyzes this topic in more depth.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, in the 2000s, 44% of graduates took keyboarding courses; as of 2019, this figure has dropped to 2.5%.

More and more students in schools are switching to touchscreen devices, such as smartphones and tablets, and as a result, their ability to type on a physical keyboard is not developing.

One of the problems is that teachers in schools and higher education institutions believe that students will acquire typing skills on their own through constant use of computers.

However, as already mentioned, zoomers now prefer touchscreens. One student commented that she had written an 8-page essay using the iPad’s touchscreen keyboard.

Moreover, further data in the report also confirms the shift to touchscreen devices. Between March and May 2024, 39% of all assignments on the online learning platform Canvas were submitted from mobile devices.

In addition, the report shows that the readers are not very good at using the blind typing method, and students need to constantly monitor their hands.

Among other things, poor keyboarding skills and the inability to use blind typing can have a negative impact on online test results, as students focus on their hands and the keyboard rather than on the tasks themselves.

Nevertheless, various typing training services have recently gained popularity in America, so perhaps Zoomers will soon be able to boast not only of their technology awareness but also of their typing speed.