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Slightly OT: I installed SwiftKey (currently the top option under iOS on this website), and I really like the concept (would at least like to try it out, even t

by ilyanep 12y ago

Slightly OT: I installed SwiftKey (currently the top option under iOS on this website), and I really like the concept (would at least like to try it out, even though I've developed a pretty good proficiency with two-thumb typing), but I don't like the fact that it's hard to re-do/correct the last word. I can either type slowly, which defeats the point of the keyboard, or type quickly and have to do the slow process of backspacing the last word and re-swiping it (which slows you down a lot). Is there some magic gesture I'm missing, or is there a different third-party keyboard that has a similar idea but is better in this regard? I'm tempted to pay the $1 for Swype but I don't want to bother to do that and then discover it has similar problems.

Nerdfest 12y ago
With Swype (my favourite), a single backspace deletes a word you just typed. Alternatively, you can select a correction of the word from the correction bar.
davweb 12y ago
I don't know about the iOS version, but on Swiftkey on Android swiping your finger from right to left across the whole keyboard deletes the previous word. I'm using the ordinary typing mode though. I don't know if this works if you have the Flow mode enabled.
- deong 12y ago
  It doesn't, but a long press on the delete key deletes words at a time, accelerating as long as you keep pressing.
jgon 12y ago
You should try fleksy. It's what I currently use after running into the same issue you mentioned. Fleksy let's you swipe up and down to scroll through the list of suggested words, so if the keyboard ends up picking the wrong word based on your input, putting "passing" instead of "padding" say, you are one flick away from having the correct word instead of having to delete the entire word and retype it again, hoping that the keyboard picks the right completion this time. I have tried all of the keyboards on the list for Android, and it's because of this swipe feature that I can't use anything else.

by ilyanep 12y ago

Nerdfest 12y ago

With Swype (my favourite), a single backspace deletes a word you just typed. Alternatively, you can select a correction of the word from the correction bar.

davweb 12y ago

I don't know about the iOS version, but on Swiftkey on Android swiping your finger from right to left across the whole keyboard deletes the previous word. I'm using the ordinary typing mode though. I don't know if this works if you have the Flow mode enabled.

deong 12y ago
It doesn't, but a long press on the delete key deletes words at a time, accelerating as long as you keep pressing.

jgon 12y ago

You should try fleksy. It's what I currently use after running into the same issue you mentioned. Fleksy let's you swipe up and down to scroll through the list of suggested words, so if the keyboard ends up picking the wrong word based on your input, putting "passing" instead of "padding" say, you are one flick away from having the correct word instead of having to delete the entire word and retype it again, hoping that the keyboard picks the right completion this time. I have tried all of the keyboards on the list for Android, and it's because of this swipe feature that I can't use anything else.