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For some very odd reason, swipe keyboard technology seems to have peaked around 2014, never to reach those heights again. I remember being amazed by how great

For some very odd reason, swipe keyboard technology seems to have peaked around 2014, never to reach those heights again. I remember being amazed by how great swiping was, and after using it recently (it's not really great on gboard or samsung keyboard either, not bad but just meh) I was wondering if it was just rose tinted glass. But nope, I booted up my old nexus 5 with a normal gboard (not even swiftkey!) and it was still amazing. The contrast was amazing even when I wiped typing data on both phones to make sure that it was a fair comparison. I guess the most glaring difference was the subtle, but extremely important handling of edge cases or particularly ambigious letter combinations. Even the "bad" modern google keyboard is still 95% accurate, but the difference between that and the 99% accuracy on my nexus 5 basically makes all the difference. It goes from predictive magic to having to swipe across every single letter to make sure it works.

georgyo 4y ago
Very much agree!! I remember not even knowing the spelling of words but being able to swipe in the general direction of letters I thought might be correct and it inputting the correct word. Now now it seems I have to have near perfect tracing and pathing to get correct words. It's very disappointing.
empyrrhicist 4y ago
Could it be related to screen size and finger mechanics?
- mardifoufs 4y ago
  That honestly could be it! My past few galaxy phones have been narrower and taller than my old note4 (the nexus was more compact but with an aspect ratio that was more "square" ). The narrow and tall screens makes hitting keys a lot harder, now that I think about it.
- dmonitor 4y ago
  I switched to an iphone mini and experienced a minor improvement in my typing accuracy, but it’s still pretty torturous compared to back in the day.
itsmartapuntocm 4y ago
I read somewhere that that’s about when they switched from hand coded lists to machine learning for autocorrect.
Haga 4y ago
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georgyo 4y ago

Very much agree!! I remember not even knowing the spelling of words but being able to swipe in the general direction of letters I thought might be correct and it inputting the correct word. Now now it seems I have to have near perfect tracing and pathing to get correct words. It's very disappointing.

empyrrhicist 4y ago

Could it be related to screen size and finger mechanics?

mardifoufs 4y ago
That honestly could be it! My past few galaxy phones have been narrower and taller than my old note4 (the nexus was more compact but with an aspect ratio that was more "square" ). The narrow and tall screens makes hitting keys a lot harder, now that I think about it.
dmonitor 4y ago
I switched to an iphone mini and experienced a minor improvement in my typing accuracy, but it’s still pretty torturous compared to back in the day.

itsmartapuntocm 4y ago

I read somewhere that that’s about when they switched from hand coded lists to machine learning for autocorrect.

Haga 4y ago

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