touch-type
Americanverb (used without object)
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of touch-type
An Americanism dating back to 1940–45
Vocabulary lists containing touch-type
Computer Science and Technology - Introductory
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Computer Science and Technology - Middle School
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Computer Science and Technology - High School
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Example Sentences
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"It took off like wildfire and before long people were getting so fast at texting on phones, they could pretty much touch-type on a numeric keyboard," he said.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2022
I’d learned how to touch-type in middle school, and I was a good typist.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2021
When it was taken, I didn't even know how to touch-type.
From Slate ● Jan. 15, 2014
And kids are picking up computer skills along the way: watching the fifth-graders touch-type would make an executive secretary weep.
From Time Magazine Archive
I spoke it out loud as I wrote, and touch-typed with my eyes closed in a darkened room.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 13, 2011
While writing The Corrections, he even wore a blindfold as he touch-typed.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 24, 2010
It's muscle memory like touch-typing or driving a familiar route home.
From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2025
Pen-and-ink clerks who struggled to top 20 words a minute were displaced by typists who could top 60 wpm, especially if they used new touch-typing techniques pioneered by a Cincinnati stenographer, Elizabeth Longley.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025
Parodying a touch-typing program that many of her readers will recognize from grade-school, she writes, “Mavis Beacon bursts out of the computer and shows me where to put my fingers.”
From The New Yorker ● May 29, 2014
Or my failure to learn touch-typing: now that had consequences.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2013
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