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Same here! I type about 3x faster in English than in French.

I think the reason is that, once you know where the keys are, you pick up speed by coming across the same letter combinations so often - eg, ing, com, tion in English - that you develop a memory for them. When I'm typing, I probably process words, subconsciously, in terms of 'Oh yeh, THAT letter combination again.' So typing in another language is almost a separate skill, with a whole new set of letter combinations to get used to.

I haven't spent anything like the same amount of time typing in French, and add to that it's a 2nd language, so I'm never going to be amazingly fast - however, if you're Irish/English bilingual, maybe you just need more Irish 'typing hours' to get up to the same speed as in English?

i do no longer think of it truly concerns. i'm presently analyzing Spanish and Esperanto that are extremely elementary and comparable languages yet i don't experience that it truly impacts me in one or the different. there's a guy on youtube (laoshu505000) that knows around 50 languages and analyze like 10 different ones throughout a week. So it would desire to help, would desire to no longer, no you may truly understand as of yet.

I type at the same speed in Italian and English, cause they're both my mother language- but when I'm writing in German and French it takes longer, I have to go slowlier.

I have the opposite problem - my typing speed is twice as fast when I'm typing in double dutch x

I struggle with numbers - have to look every time. Been typing for over 20 years but still struggle!!!

I do too;)