Do you use the swipe to type feature on your phone?
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.
Almost always. I never really got the hang of tapping – I don’t write all that often on my phone, so I don’t have the accuracy down. Swyping lets me use my general knowledge of the keyboard to make up for my poor accuracy.
I tried it once years ago and couldn’t get into it, found it kept guessing everything wrong or I was using it wrong, not sure. But just recently I got a smartwatch and heard many people recommending it and on such a small screen, it’s incredibly good at what it does. I may try it again on my phone soon as I’m starting to like it.
Oh, that looks interesting but with a high learning curve, haha! Kinda interested in trying it, but not sure if it supports Norwegian characters though.
It does take a bit of getting used to. But typing on it feels awesome. since it uses just 5 keys, I have also implemented a version of it that works on my digital piano to type on my pc using midi (useful for loading sheet music on screen without having to get up.
Also, I use termux on android. I like the keyboard because it doesn’t take up half the screen by itself and also allows me to “easily” use function keys and modifiers.
I’ve used it for several years now, and I could never go back. It makes me shudder to think of trying to type out words by tapping on individual letters again. Swiping is so much faster.
I tried it several times and couldn’t get the hang of it. I’d always overshoot the character I was going for. I had a colleague who was amazingly fast with swiping to type.
When I got a pixel 7 pro, I was very sad to find out Swype dragon had been discontinued. The APK are still around, but I’m not sure I’m ready to root and or put a custom OS my pixel yet to get it installed.
I’ve been going back and forward between gboard and swift key. Both are orders of magnitude worse than Swype was at recognising traces for longer words. Blows my mind how Google and Microsoft still can’t build something as good as decade old Swype.
I think so. I tried to install a few different versions and got errors saying it wasn’t able to be installed. Assume Swype was a 32 bit app, which you can’t install on pixel 7 without doing away with the stock Android.
I run LineageOS on my phone so I sadly don’t have that feature. I found it was easier for me to quickly reply to texts but I would still fall back to typing with 2 thumbs (as I am now) and now that I have no swype-esque keyboard I think I may be faster without it.
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