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I'd love to be able to see statistics about hits and misses on this, because in more than 10 years of touchscreen smartphone usage, I'm still yet to type even a

by thom 7y ago

I'd love to be able to see statistics about hits and misses on this, because in more than 10 years of touchscreen smartphone usage, I'm still yet to type even a single sentence correctly. I hold out hope for a decent dialling wand.

sametmax 7y ago
Same, even if I can type blindfolded on my laptop. But the regular users do fine. Which let me think it's optimized for limited message delivery in size and vocabulary. Indeed, I noticed that if I disable auto-correct then keep using very simple words, and short messages, I have much less problems. Of course, answering with emojis mean no risk of typos.
kadoban 7y ago
Look into the MessagEase keyboard. It's IMO about the optimum available phone keyboard input. With a little practice you can touch-type naturally, though it's never going to be as fast as a full size keyboard of course. Really the only downside is having to put a bit of effort into learning it, but for the amount of time I personally spend typing on the phone over the years, it's well worth it. I also tried other keyboard formats. 8pen was kind of interesting, but I could never get it very consistent myself, it felt more like a gimmick.
- CarVac 7y ago
  I switched entirely over to MessagEase a few months ago. Getting deterministic results from typing still feels refreshing, even now. I'll second the recommendation.
- anchpop 7y ago
  A few years ago, there was a product on the play store called 8pen[0] which had a huge learning curve but was insanely useful. I was able to type while running on the treadmill, or with my phone under my desk in class. Unfortunately they took it off the play store for reasons I don't understand [0]: http://www.8pen.com/ http://www.8pen.com/
  - kadoban 7y ago
    Yeah 8pen was the one that first got me interested in alternative input methods. It was quite cool coming from boring horrible qwerty phone keyboards. I personally couldn't quite get it down, my consistency was very low. Still, sad to hear it's not available anymore, from what I heard it worked quite well for some.

by thom 7y ago

sametmax 7y ago

Same, even if I can type blindfolded on my laptop. But the regular users do fine. Which let me think it's optimized for limited message delivery in size and vocabulary. Indeed, I noticed that if I disable auto-correct then keep using very simple words, and short messages, I have much less problems. Of course, answering with emojis mean no risk of typos.

kadoban 7y ago

Look into the MessagEase keyboard. It's IMO about the optimum available phone keyboard input. With a little practice you can touch-type naturally, though it's never going to be as fast as a full size keyboard of course. Really the only downside is having to put a bit of effort into learning it, but for the amount of time I personally spend typing on the phone over the years, it's well worth it. I also tried other keyboard formats. 8pen was kind of interesting, but I could never get it very consistent myself, it felt more like a gimmick.

CarVac 7y ago
I switched entirely over to MessagEase a few months ago. Getting deterministic results from typing still feels refreshing, even now. I'll second the recommendation.
anchpop 7y ago
A few years ago, there was a product on the play store called 8pen[0] which had a huge learning curve but was insanely useful. I was able to type while running on the treadmill, or with my phone under my desk in class. Unfortunately they took it off the play store for reasons I don't understand [0]: http://www.8pen.com/ http://www.8pen.com/
- kadoban 7y ago
  Yeah 8pen was the one that first got me interested in alternative input methods. It was quite cool coming from boring horrible qwerty phone keyboards. I personally couldn't quite get it down, my consistency was very low. Still, sad to hear it's not available anymore, from what I heard it worked quite well for some.