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 know what’s funny? the qwerty layout for keyboards were designed to slow people down because mechanical typewritters couldn’t keep up with the typing speeds. It’s purposely slower, moving the most used keys out of the way.
One wonders why we haven’t created a new keyboard in all these years. maybe with the same physical layout so that it could just be a firm/software adjustment rather than physical.
One wonders why we haven’t created a new keyboard in all these years.
Oh they have. There are quite a few different layouts, apparently the Dovarak is the fastest.
But qwerty has been in use for so long it would be impossible to change.
As a former sysadmin who hopped around to different machines to do stuff, I would hate it when I had to type on some developers’ computers, because they had set it up as Dvorak (vi on Dvorak is a special hell). Yes, it’s a more efficient keyboard as long as that’s the only machine you’re on. If you have to use different machines where most of the users are on QWERTY, you just use QWERTY.
It’s not so hard to switch back and forth with modern operating systems.
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.
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 touch type, so no
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I think that Blackberry’s had the best physical keyboard of any phone past or present.
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.
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.
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.
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
Welp, that’s certainly an opinion
I was an early adopter of Swype and I’ve been using it for ages. I can probably hit 25-30 wpm with it on a good day. An average typist will hit at least 60 wpm and I can get over 100.
In addition, Swype is just more work than typing. Making tiny motions that require fine motor control is a lot more tiring than the broad movements needed on a keyboard.
I hate swiping. I’m typing this on my tablet with Hacker’s keyboard (the old one, with a full US keyboard) and I miss the nechanical feedback. At least the keys are where they should be, kinda.
To be honest, I type loads behind the PC with a real keyboard (DasKeyboard) and almost never on mobile.
