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Swiping and the features you mentioned are amongst the best I've tried. So yes, it's a "better" "usual" keyboard that makes me type more efficiently than other

by alwyn 3y ago

Swiping and the features you mentioned are amongst the best I've tried. So yes, it's a "better" "usual" keyboard that makes me type more efficiently than other keyboards. E.g. Gboard doesn't come close and feels like a big downgrade. Fast edit: it's Monday morning, I didn't realise there were so many other replies already.

spoiler 3y ago
I'm someone who switched from SwiftKey (paid plan) to GBoard, and never looked back. I much prefer GBoard to SwiftKey. So it might be a matter of preference
- stavros 3y ago
  Really? I hope you're right, I'm looking for a better alternative than SwiftKey, but I haven't found any yet. I'll try GBoard again now, thanks. EDIT: It's good, but not as good as Swiftkey in its UX. Swiping for punctuation doesn't work, you need to long press and swipe. Pressing space to insert the prediction and then pressing comma doesn't remove the space, so it requires an awkward dance to insert a comma and a prediction simultaneously. There's no gesture to dismiss the keyboard, the "delete word" swipe is a bit awkward, long pressing buttons doesn't give you punctuation, and that's just what I've found in a few minutes of use. I hope they address these soon.
  - andybak 3y ago
    My biggest gripe with GBoard is the word prediction for swipes that are ambiguous. It consistently gives me "sine" over "some" and never learns. I type "sine" maybe a couple of times a day and type "some" dozens of times a day. I imagine getting the weighting right is tricky but it just seems to be wrong most of the time. I don't remember SwiftKey being any better but I might give it another try just in case.
    - stavros 3y ago
      In that department, it's not. It often corrects "my" to "NY", which is ridiculous. It's the best I've found overall, though.
  - spoiler 3y ago
    Ah. These days I just use speech to text, with a combination of swiping sometimes and tapping for punctuation. I also don't to use my phone much anymore (since I reduced social media usage and disabled notifications). FWIW I think the reason I moved away from SwiftKey was because it kept having strange language issues in a multilingual setup, but I haven't used it in a while; probably 5+ years. Maybe I'm just not a touchscreen keyboard power user any longer

by alwyn 3y ago

spoiler 3y ago

I'm someone who switched from SwiftKey (paid plan) to GBoard, and never looked back. I much prefer GBoard to SwiftKey. So it might be a matter of preference

stavros 3y ago
Really? I hope you're right, I'm looking for a better alternative than SwiftKey, but I haven't found any yet. I'll try GBoard again now, thanks. EDIT: It's good, but not as good as Swiftkey in its UX. Swiping for punctuation doesn't work, you need to long press and swipe. Pressing space to insert the prediction and then pressing comma doesn't remove the space, so it requires an awkward dance to insert a comma and a prediction simultaneously. There's no gesture to dismiss the keyboard, the "delete word" swipe is a bit awkward, long pressing buttons doesn't give you punctuation, and that's just what I've found in a few minutes of use. I hope they address these soon.
- andybak 3y ago
  My biggest gripe with GBoard is the word prediction for swipes that are ambiguous. It consistently gives me "sine" over "some" and never learns. I type "sine" maybe a couple of times a day and type "some" dozens of times a day. I imagine getting the weighting right is tricky but it just seems to be wrong most of the time. I don't remember SwiftKey being any better but I might give it another try just in case.
  - stavros 3y ago
    In that department, it's not. It often corrects "my" to "NY", which is ridiculous. It's the best I've found overall, though.
- spoiler 3y ago
  Ah. These days I just use speech to text, with a combination of swiping sometimes and tapping for punctuation. I also don't to use my phone much anymore (since I reduced social media usage and disabled notifications). FWIW I think the reason I moved away from SwiftKey was because it kept having strange language issues in a multilingual setup, but I haven't used it in a while; probably 5+ years. Maybe I'm just not a touchscreen keyboard power user any longer