I feel swipe to type should be an option on laptops. Using keys to type is slow compared to swiping across alphabets. Remove the physical keyboard and put a 6" to 10" lcd with touch input on it.
Not at all.
Honestly, if you think one finger swiping is faster and better than ten fingers on a keyboard I would suggest you spend some time leaning to type.
You could have ten fingers on a keyboard plus some kind of assistance or auto-suggest too.
I’m not sure how well this would work but considering the ability of certain smartphones keyboard to learn your language pattern it could be useful to some.
Using keys to type is slow compared to swiping across alphabets
You’d have to be really bad at typing for that to be true.
No, complete opposite.
anything longer than a sentence is an absolute grind on the phone
Somebody, take away that person’s phone so that he/she won’t give new stupid ideas to tech giants
How old are you out of curiosity? I read somewhere that typing speed had steadily been increasing in the newer generations until somewhere around 1995-2000 and then afterwards typing speed started going down again.
I find it fascinating. I grew up playing World of Walmart and Runescape (and later on League of Legends when it came out) so typing quickly was sort of a necessary learned behavior. That along with being online all the time either through MySpace / AIM / MSN Messenger / reddit (later on Facebook)…
These days kids just don’t have access to the computer like my generation did. My dad would go to garage sales and impulsively buy old computers. I would take them apart and put them together. Would install a different distro of Linux every week. All from the age of 11~12
Didn’t know wtf I was doing but over time you learn.
I feel bad for kids these days. They’re not growing up with desktop PCs. They’re growing up with tablets and smartphones. They will always be used to these closed down operating systems and never truly understand the mechanics of how an OS works.
To answer your question - no. Typing on a keyboard is by far my favorite way to get down information. I can peak around 160wpm and average around 130wpm give or take 20wpm depending on density of text. I can’t get anywhere close on the phone. Peak around 90wpm average like 70wpm.
I grew up playing World of Walmart
Me too! Good memories. It was better before they nerfed the produce department though.
Tell us you don’t know how to type without telling us you don’t know how to type
I love swipe gestures on the phone and use it almost exclusively and I’m pretty fast with it… but in no world is it even close to the speed of a keyboard.
I touch type, so no
How slow do you type? Also Swype seems to get worse and worse every year. If I start on a character, you can be pretty sure I meant that character. Some of what it decides is fucking absurd
Swiping sucks, this is vow or loss when I swipe without namely correcting everything
I just want a smartphone with a built in physical keyboard, like my old Nokia e6.
Blackberry was great. Just that damn track ball
I think that Blackberry’s had the best physical keyboard of any phone past or present.
It’s still to small to properly type on.
How can one finger be faster than 8? At least I use 8 + one of the thumbs to press the space button.
You assume the op knows how to use more than one finger to type.
Even with one finger ,it should be faster
I don’t properly touch type. I have pretty good muscle memory for a standard qwerty, but typing is still very much a hand-eye coordination exercise for me. I can do the standard transcription typing tests at about 50 wpm, and compose or type from memory at maybe 70ish. I don’t hate swiping, and it’s much better than thumb-mushing for polysyllabic words, but I’m nowhere close to even my modest typing speeds on a proper keyboard.
I’d like to see the average user on a Swipe keyboard beat me typing on a real computer keyboard.
Interested in friendly competiton? Take the typing test and compare your results!
Typing Test: https://www.typingtest.com/
My Results:
Test Type: Medium
Two baselines performed, third test is the result.
Words Per Minute: 120 wpm net speed (123 wpm x 97% accuracy = 120 wpm)
Screenshot of results: https://i.postimg.cc/VNCJT1nX/artifact.png
Edit to Add:
I selected “Medium” because that seemed like just enough difficulty and word variety compared to the “Hard” mode. Most average users should not be typing text with much more complexity often, so Medium seems best.
Some of the skill might be transferrable. My sister has been on iPhone for years and gets 120 wpm on monkeytype with predictive text on. For comparison, she gets 110 on a normal chiclet keyboard.
Swiping is nice and all, even though you rarely write a whole sentence without it getting a word wrong and what you wrote not even being a suggestion, but it’s nowhere near the speed of typing.
Unless you’re doing that only with your thumb as well?
No, could never get used to the Swype thing. My fat fingers constantly mispell thank god for autocorrect. If they ever come out with a blackberry like smartphone with physical keys I am all for it. Doesn’t help that I’ve been a PC guy my whole life and know the QWERTY keyboard like the back of my hand. I somehow have even developed my own typing technique that beats home-rowers in speed.
No, and if I have to get some real writing done on my phone I connect the BT keyboard I’ve been using since 2011
