Submitted 1 year ago by atocci@kbin.social to [deleted]
https://kbin.social/m/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world/t/191686
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 do if I need to type something really really quickly, but I still type normally if I’m trying to carefully format something with proper grammar and all that (like a Lemmy reply, for example!)
Ever since Swype came out I’ve been using it. I tried to use swiftkey and gboard when swype stopped updating. But I just keep using Swype even if it is deprecated just feels better to me
Can one still download Swype?
I had to think about this for a bit but I think I do both a bit of swiping and typing with my thumbs. I think swiping is especially useful one handed, imo.
Depends on the keyboard. I’m currently using Florisboard and swipe is nigh unusable. Lol
There are also no suggestions and no autocorrect (even though j usually have ot turned off anyway).
Wait, why am i using this again…?
Nope
I have a Z Fold as my phone, so I tend to switch between tapping and swiping depending on if its open or closed. I can only really swipe on the smaller screen, and have to tap on the big one. It made me wonder what others do, because before this I can't remember the last time I tapped for anything other than correcting spelling of tougher words.
For a long time, maybe since they introduced it until about 2 years ago, and then I feel like they really got the voice to text down, and I mostly use that now
I swipe and tap to type. It really depends on what I’m doing. If I’m typing one handed, swiping is really nice and super fast. I’ll also swipe to type if my phone is on the table and I’m only typing with one finger. If I’m using both hands, I will generally tap to type.
I've been using SwiftKey for ages, as well.
No I don’t use it, never liked it
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Nope.
I thought it was going to be next level when I first saw it, maybe a decade ago. Tried it, did not like it at all.
Honestly, I have never been able to do this. I guess I am terrible at typing.
As with a few others I only really use it when I’m using the phone one handed. If I’m eating and want to reply. Otherwise two thumbs tapping away is quicker for me.
From time to time yeah, I heard that with enough practice I should be able to type faster
Yes, I use it all the time, it really works well and I am much faster than typing
I use it, and combining it with autocorrect and suggestions I find it really easy and fast to use.
I tend to swipe (on Android btw) whenever I only have one hand available, and type when I have both. It works really well and barely ever comes up with a wrong with.
I find it to be much slower and less accurate than standard typing with autocorrect. I try from time to time for fun, or when I have only one hand available, but it’s not something to be used day to day.
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.
I have for years wouldn’t go back
all-knight-party@fedia.io 1 year ago
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.