I used to do it when phones had smaller touch screens. Now I type with both thumbs. That is a lot faster than swiping with one finger
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A lot of keyboards have a one-hand mode that really helped and kept me using the swipe typing even as the screens kept getting bigger.
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).
iPhones can do this natively now. I use it sometimes. It really depends on a lot of factors. How long is my message? How many hands are free? Do I feel patient right now?
I only type when I forget I can swipe
I've never tried it before but wow... It's kinda interesting...
May play with it more now but it doesn't really feel faster to me.
no I don't. I use a chorded keyboard called pentikeyboard
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 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.
I still to this day hate touch only phones and wish I had physical keys again. That being said, I use swipe, and it makes things a lot more tolerable.
Swipe to type always confused me, I just tapaway.
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.
I use it when I'm typing one handed, but I'm also a bit of an oddball who uses the Dvorak keyboard on my phone, which comes with it's trade-offs.
For two-handed typing I like it a lot, with the vowels all on the left side of the screen I feel like I alternate between my left and right thumb pretty well.
But it does seem to make swipe typing a bit less accurate because all the vowels are all clustered together so for example bat/bot/bet/but/bit are all a bit closer together than they would be otherwise (although Gboard usually seems to a pretty good job of sorting it out from context)
I do. Not exclusively, but more often than not.
Nope.
I have for years wouldn't go back
Sometimes, but mostly I use tap to type. Usually swipe is accurate, but I don’t always want the risk that it’ll get something wrong and it’ll take longer to fix it than if I’d just typed it straight away.
I usually swipe but it doesn't always fill in the right word...so if I'm sending a long or time-sensitive message I just type it out.
Excessively, yes. Most people look at me weirdly when I tell them I do, though, but I've grown quite fond of the swipe input method.
The only time I've ever used swipe was when Nintype/Keyboard69 was still supported. The two finger swipe was the only time swipe could keep up with my tap typing speed, and sometimes exceed it, but since then nobody has come in and done anything as revolutionary with the typing game, and Nintype is simply too out of date and buggy, but man, I really miss it.
The only time I've ever used swipe was when Nintype/Keyboard69 was still supported. The two finger swipe was the only time swipe could keep up with my tap typing speed, and sometimes exceed it, but since then nobody has come in and done anything as revolutionary with the typing game, and Nintype is simply too out of date and buggy, but man, I really miss it.
100%. I use a third party app called Nintype which actually lets you two-thumb swipe type - to my knowledge the only one that has this as a feature. It's so so much faster than single thumb swiping and peck typing once you get used to it. Sadly it's been abandoned by the dev, so I'll be gutted when whatever iOS version decides Nintype is too old and no longer supported
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I used to use it all the time, but when I switched to a Dvorak layout it didn't seem as efficient as on QWERTY.
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.
swipe for common 3+ letter words, tapping for unusual words and uncommon pronouns, and very short words. I guess I've learned what swipe is good at guessing and what it's bad at.
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.
I mostly use the swipe method on my iPhone, yep