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I could type faster (and without looking) on the old Nokia style keypads than I can on a touchscreen.

• merpnderp 9y ago
  So could I. No looking at the keyboard and almost never making a typo. I had to backspace and correct 3 typos writing this on my iPhone with autocorrect fixing several more.
  • zamalek 9y ago
    Maybe this will change with tactile screens. Touch screen keyboards are the result of a severe underestimation of the importance of the human element in hardware design.
• baddox 9y ago
  That's surprising to me. The physical phone keyboards I have used have require far too much activation pressure for me to type anywhere near as quickly as I do on an iPhone. I do think my error rate would be lower with a physical keyboard, and I could obviously type better without looking at my keyboard, but the former isn't enough of a difference and the latter isn't something I would need to do anyway except perhaps in very unusual circumstances.
  • lunchables 9y ago
    I think that lower error rate is the key. I've been using an iPhone since 2010 and I still can't type on it. The amount of time I spend pressing, holding, dragging the cursor back to make a correction, or backspacing, to fix errors more than offsets any difference in typing speed because of the pressure required on a physical keyboard. Just speaking for myself, obviously, I'm sure other people may have different experiences.
• CaptSpify 9y ago
  also: much more screen-space as the keyboard doesn't have to take over.