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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Comput. Sci.
Sec. Human-Media Interaction
Volume 6 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fcomp.2024.1412458

Extracting Typing Game Keystroke Patterns as Potential Indicators of Programming Aptitude

Provisionally accepted
Toyohisa Nakada Toyohisa Nakada 1*Motoki Miura Motoki Miura 2
  • 1 Niigata University of International and Information Studies, Niigata, Japan
  • 2 Chiba Institute of Technology, Narashino, Chiba, Japan

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    This study attempted to determine whether individuals possess programming aptitude solely based on keystroke information from typing games where participants type computer programs.The participants were students enrolled in university programming courses. The results indicated that using typing speed alone as an indicator achieved an accuracy of 0.71, while employing a custom machine learning model achieved an accuracy of 0.83. Additionally, it was found that individuals with programming aptitude tended to type the enter key relatively slower compared to other keys.

    Keywords: Typing game, Programming aptitude, machine learning, Programming education, keystroke analysis

    Received: 23 Apr 2024; Accepted: 09 Jul 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Nakada and Miura. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Toyohisa Nakada, Niigata University of International and Information Studies, Niigata, Japan

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