Is this how most people type on mobile these days, drawing lines all over a keyboard instead of tapping the individual keys? I’ve never had an iPhone so I don’t even know if they can do this natively, but I know you can switch keyboards at least, so it should still be an option if not.
I bounce back and forth. I’m faster using two thumbs and tapping but if I’m typing one handed swipe is far superior.
This is the way to do it. Autocorrect is doing 90% of the work in either case anyway, lol.
I have autocorrect turned off.
Full manual baybeeeeeeLiving life in the fadt lane.
Teh daneger xone
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Same. I hate correcting autocorrect.
You’re a brave man
Rawdogging those inputs
Ducking autocorrect.
Same, but even when I type one-handed, I also bounce back and forth at each word. Swiping gets short words wrong more often, but more rarely long words.
So for instance, for “I am on vacation”, the only word I’d swipe when one-handed is “vacation”. If I swiped “am”, I’d probably have a 50-50 chance of getting “an”; which may or may not self-correct later, depending on what else it got wrong.
Exact same. Two thumbs when typing longer responses or when both hands are free. One handed always swiping unless I need to type an uncommon word or name.
Android user here. Swipe style entry now for maybe 8 years? So much faster than individual tapping.
Yes, that’s my preferred method
I never could get into it. I type like it’s a keyboard I actually don’t even look at the keyboard I am looking at the input field and glancing down if I have to. Swipe sucks for me and is way less accurate than my method and I actually have to focus on the keyboard just to have worse WPM. I also get pissed off cuz if my hands are at all wet the typing tries to swipe.
P.s. it’s hilarious to me that this long existing android feature is treated like some unique cool thing when Apple finally adopts it 10 years later. Like wireless and fast charging. But yeah I’m lame cuz I have a green bubble and don’t use stupid personalized emoji thing
The google gboard has it built in for android. It’s handy when using with one hand
Ah, yes. For one handed typing. It’s probably pretty accurate if it’s just learning off of the few phrases you type one handed. I’m sure it’s the same few pretty frequently.
I use it almost exclusively. It’s not without its faults, but it does better for me than pressing individual keys.
Me too. Fingers too big for those little tiny keys.
Yeah occasionally when I really wanna make sure autocorrect doesn’t fuck around I will hit individual keys but otherwise it’s swipe all the time
I’ve been using SwiftKey since like 2010 when I got my first smart phone that didn’t have a keyboard (rip HTC Z).
I feel like the accuracy has gone down over the years. Also, Gboard has had an issue for a bit now where it will show that I’m swiping one long word but insert a different one when I let go.
Loved my HTC Z. I could type so fast on that thing
Annoyingly, my PKB stopped responding in patches, and they were out of production so they replaced it with a Sensation XL.
Flogged it when I got it, and went back to BlackBerry.
This Samsung Galaxy Flip 3 is pretty much the first touchscreen only phone I’ve had in about fifteen years.
I do now. I’ve been using OpenBoard for a few years after ditching the Google spyware keyboard, and recently I’ve learned about a fork of OB with gesture typing. It’s perfect if I have just one hand available.
Thanks for linking! Currently using OpenBoard to get away from Swiftkey’s privacy issues, but OpenBoard’s lack of swipe has been a hard adjustment. FlorisBoard is en route to swipe tho it’s still very much in beta (but feels like alpha with the current implementation)
I’m not optimistic about Floris. A while ago they’ve made the decision to completely rewrite everything - a common occurrence among small-time FOSS projects, and almost always results in the project completely dying (or in a “better” case scenario, coming out of the ordeal as only a shell of its former self). Floris Board… Has not had any receipt in a while.
But fortunately with this fork of OB existing, there isn’t much need for it anymore. It would be nice to have a selection of modern FOSS keyboards, but, ah well.
Oh nice! Will try this out thanks for sharing!
I’ve swiped since the early days of Swype. This forked version of OB let’s you swipe only on the English layout. Swipe doesn’t work for the other two languages I use. And English isn’t my main one. Don’t see much development for the keyboard either, so I’ll probably have to wait a long time to use it as a daily driver. So, sadly I’m stuck with GB for now…
You can try AnySoftKeyboard or FlorisBoard, but both are more experimental than OB the commercial products.
From the early days of Android, Found a add-on keyboard called Swype… Never turned back, prolly 13 years ago now?
Yeah, same, I think I had a paid version of Swype way back when and used that until they integrated it into Android. That being said, there are some words I will type in letter by letter, because some longer words require a lot of swiping, or won’t be recognized easily. Autodefenestration for example.
It often doesn’t work well for very short words, or uncommon words and whenever I have to stop swiping to tap out individual words I feel like a time traveler being forced to use pre-historic tools.
That was the only way I type on my android phone with GBoard but now with KDE mobile I am back in the dark ages.
Type.
Swipe is weird and I don’t like it.
I’m on Android and I swipe mostly unless autocorrect doesn’t give me the word I wanted. Very good for one-handed typing.
One handed and to a degree even without looking. I checked before sending, but this text right here has been written without looking at the keyboard.
It’s the only way I could have typed anything of substance for the past 2 months with a fractured elbow.
I don’t understand how with all the ai we have not it can’t auto correct properly with the context of the sentence, but I still can’t use letter typing as an alternative, it’s too slow
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Absolutely. Been doing that since my first Nexus phone. Without it, I find the mobile keyboard extremely unwieldy.
