What is a typical keypress duration

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Will picture Will · Mar 19, 2014 · Viewed 9k times · Source

I'm doing some work on key press handing in a firmware project. I've been googling to try to find what the typical duration of a key press is, particularly the minimum for a fast typist. Surprisingly I can't find any figures for this anywhere.

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Jay Elston picture Jay Elston · Mar 20, 2014

There are some recent studies on keypress timings that have published there timings. Here are two:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~keystroke/ (Data gathered by Kevin Killourhy and Roy Maxion as accompaniment to "Comparing Anomaly-Detection Algorithms for Keystroke Dynamics").

Pressure-Sensitive Keystroke Dynamics (Gathered by Jeffrey D. Allen as part of his thesis).

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