Editing Typing (section)

{{Short description|Text input method}}
{{About|entering text|classification of data into types in programming|Type system|China-related meanings|Taiping (disambiguation){{!}}Taiping}}
{{original research|date=March 2017}}
[[File:Computer keyboard.png|thumb|Person typing on a [[laptop]] keyboard]]
[[File:Typing example.ogv|thumb|Video of typing on a notebook computer keyboard]]
'''Typing''' is the process of writing or inputting text by pressing keys on a [[typewriter]], [[computer keyboard]], [[mobile phone]], or [[calculator]]. It can be distinguished from other means of text input, such as [[handwriting recognition|handwriting]] and [[speech recognition]]. Text can be in the form of letters, numbers and other symbols. The world's first typist was Lillian Sholes from [[Wisconsin]] in the [[United States]],<ref name=wisconsinhistory.org>{{cite web |title=World's First Typist |work=Wisconsin Historical Society |date=December 2003 |url=http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=3196&qstring=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wisconsinhistory.org%2Fwhi%2Fresults.asp%3Fsubject_narrow%3DInventors |access-date=2010-09-11 |archive-date=2012-11-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107022719/http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=3196&qstring=http:%2F%2Fwww.wisconsinhistory.org%2Fwhi%2Fresults.asp%3Fsubject_narrow=Inventors |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=e-referencedesk.com>{{cite web |title=Wisconsin History Facts |work=e-ReferenceDesk |url=http://www.e-referencedesk.com/resources/state-facts/wisconsin.html |access-date=2010-09-11 |archive-date=2010-11-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101119044802/http://www.e-referencedesk.com/resources/state-facts/wisconsin.html |url-status=usurped }}</ref> the daughter of [[Christopher Latham Sholes]], who invented the first practical typewriter.<ref name=wisconsinhistory.org/>

[[User interface]] features such as [[spell checker]] and [[autocomplete]] serve to facilitate and speed up typing and to prevent or correct errors the typist may make.