MeowdyPardner,
MeowdyPardner avatar

Swipe typing is the only thing that keeps me using google keyboard. Their implementation is the only one that works well for me. I think I used to use Swype before, that feels like forever ago

52fighters,
52fighters avatar

I worry about Google using the keyboard to violate my privacy so i moved to 8vin. It is a really odd keyboard but you get used to it after a few weeks.

thanevim,

It was about 5 years ago that I last used Swype, and man do I miss it. Gboard, like you said, does very well. But I recall fewer frustrations with Swype when it was still supported. Sigh...

makingStuffForFun,
@makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml avatar

Android user here. Swipe style entry now for maybe 8 years? So much faster than individual tapping.

freeman,

I never got used to swipe. Though it works quite well. Maybe I should use it more.

brave,

I feel like I’m much faster swiping.

Anecdotally, around me I’m the only one that swipes. I see a lot of my friends don’t swipe, and have even had people ask me about it.

_spiffy,
@_spiffy@lemmy.ca avatar

I do but it causes so many words typos so for most stuff is fine but every once in a while it really makes a sentence

fixxundfertig,

Yep, although I tend to use a combination of typing and swiping. Mostly swiping though. SwiftKey keyboard ftw (Microsoft, I wish I could quit you).

PostProcess,

Sausage fingers. Swiping is much more reliable than trying to hit the little squares…

Ansis100,

Yep, it’s so good you can even type without looking at the keyboard, like I just did.

slyme,

Nope, typing this with buttons on a virtual keyboard right now! I mainly use a desktop for most of the day, so I just prefer using the same system on mobile too.

killallq,

I was an early adopter of T9 typing on my Nokia back in the day. When I finally got a smartphone, I found a keyboard app that had T9 as an option and used that. When Swype first came out, I couldn’t believe that another typing system could actually beat the speed and ease of T9 typing.

I’ve always preferred to type in full words and sentences, and I’m a good speller, so most of the reasons other people don’t like swipe typing don’t apply to me.

notannpc,

iPhones can natively do swipe to text and I love the feature. It also seems to have improved accuracy as a result of the iOS 17 keyboard updates. I always find myself mixing swipe to text and regular typing together. I hardly even think about it really.

QubaXR,
@QubaXR@lemmy.world avatar

Absolutely. Been doing that since my first Nexus phone. Without it, I find the mobile keyboard extremely unwieldy.

reddit_sux,

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.

Blastoid5000,

Yes. I was the last last person I knew to get a smart phone.

Swiping is the only way I can possibly type on a non-tactile keyboard. It works even better than I first expected.

quadrotiles,

Years, it’s then oily way I tyre on phoney any Moore.

Jokes, but it really is almost the only way I type on my phone anymore.

odbod,

First time I ever used this was about a million years ago using (I think) the first keyboard app to introduce this; ‘Swype’ on Android. Dedicated GBoard user for years now, but swiping to type is so fast and accurate…

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