Keyboard Typing

It seems that some of us, particularly those living in technologized societies, may walk across computer keyboards with our fingers more often than we walk on the earth with our feet.

Accountants often do bookkeeping and administrative tasks using keyboards, doctors and nurses write down the hospital records of their patients, managers prepare presentations and reports, and software developers code applications and websites with it. Kids may use keyboards to do their school homework and college students to write essays. We use it to order gifts or search for information online, compose poems and songs, draft stories for a new book, and answer e-mails from friends, family, and colleagues. Nuns and monks may use a keyboard to write an article or find a talk on YouTube.

Typing on our phones counts, too. We may use a phone keyboard to learn a new language with a mobile application, play a game, keep track of finances, text family, complain about a long and tiring day at work to a friend via a chat app, or plan out a shopping list.

I’m pretty sure there are myriad other ways to use computer and phone keyboards. So, it’s not a surprise that the number of keystrokes made per year by an active keyboard user can reach millions.