Children spend a large proportion of their school day engaged in tasks that require manual
dexterity. If children experience difficulties with their manual dexterity skills it can have a
consequential effect on their academic achievement. The first aim of this paper was to
explore whether an online interactive typing intervention could improve children's scores on
a standardised measure of manual dexterity. The second aim was to implement a serial
reaction time tapping task as an index of children's finger movement learning, and to see …