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On a side note. I have tried typing on an tablet well after learning touch typing on a normal keyboard. I remembered Jobs' presentation and back then I believed
by gadrfgaesgysd 11y ago
On a side note. I have tried typing on an tablet well after learning touch typing on a normal keyboard. I remembered Jobs' presentation and back then I believed him how easy and wonderful it is to type on a pad. It is practically impossible, even typing something as simple as an url is a pain.
- coldtea 11y agoMaybe you're doing it wrong? I've typed lots of posts and articles on a pad. And of course people type tons of text (messages, etc) on their iPhones and Android phones every day...
- gadrfgaesgysd 11y agoJobs would be proud...
- coldtea 11y agoRegardless of whether Jobs would be proud or not, for both iOS AND Android AND Windows Phone, touch screen keyboards are the #1 most popular type, and for good reason. The people have spoken. If they were such a hidrance people could always still buy the keyboard models they abandonded en masse starting 2007.
- pjmlp 11y ago> If they were such a hidrance people could always still buy the keyboard models they abandonded en masse starting 2007. You mean the ones I keep on seeing on trains and planes?
- coldtea 11y agoYeah, I mean the statistical noise you see on trains and planes.
- collyw 11y agoNot really. Phones and tablets are mainly used for consuming data, not creating it. Text messages / whatsapp are usually short. Do you actually know anyone that writes more than a normal letter page on a touchscreen? (I am sure they are out there, but in a minority).
- DanBC 11y agoAccording to this game I have an average speed of 157 WPM on an iPhone 4s. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/typingclass/id588121234?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/typingclass/id588121234?mt=8 http://imgur.com/TyEQ3nN http://imgur.com/TyEQ3nN I really freaking hate typing on an iPhone 4s. I frequently hit space instead of a or backspace instead of l or m. The keyboard isn't always the same and so sometimes I hit . instead of space. The cheap bluetooth keyboard I bought makes typing very much nicer. That bluetooth keyboard is almost a toy, which is some indication of how terrible iPhone typing experience is. (On a tangent: a version of that game using the hundred most commonly misspelled English words, or a simple / plain English vocabulary list would be useful. Especially if they software could speak the words at you.)
- coldtea 11y ago>According to this game I have an average speed of 157 WPM on an iPhone 4s Sorry, but how does that counter what I said? Parent said that typing on a touchscreen "It is practically impossible". If you have 157 WPM on iPhone 4s then it's a counter-proof that as I said, it's anything but "practically impossible". That you "hate it" is another thing, which I can understand. It's not the best experience in the world and obviously sub par to a full keyboard. But it's clearly not "impossible". And your 157 WPM are for 4s as you said. iPhone 6, with the larger target area and auto-prediction, makes it even easier, at least for me. And if the new model brings some tactile (force) feedback, that would be even better.
- 300bps 11y agoThat game is horribly inaccurate. I downloaded it just now and on my first run it said I typed 185 words per minute average. That is over three words per second and I was typing nowhere close to that. More like 30 WPM while on a real keyboard I max out at 160 WPM with an average of 142.
- DanBC 11y agoOh no! Still, that means I would be even more likely to pay for a spelling / typing game that had more accurate speed tests. I'm not particularly keen on the weapons theme, so some cutesy forrest animals throwing snowballs might work.
- collyw 11y agoTouchscreen keyboards are a massive backward step in terms of usability.