Relationship Between the Number of Typing Keystrokes and the Proficiency of Excel Functions

Abstract

In information education, students will need to train typing skills in order to learn software operations. In this study, we focus on Excel as software widely used in the curriculum, and consider the relationship between mastery of functions and required typing ability. The subjects of the survey were high school students, and as a measure of Excel proficiency, the degree of appearance of function-related answer words was used in the association method. We confirm the relationship between the number of answer words that indicate the function related to Excel obtained from the association method and the number of typing keystrokes per minute.