iPad Do you mostly thumb or finger type on your ipad?

I'm guessing you don't have anything better to do. R u shooting for 40 threads created in 30 days????

 

Is this a post about how the world is in a frenzy over thumb input devices rather than crazy coocoo full sized tablets that require both hands and proper homerow finger placement?

 

I see what you did there.

 

Jeez, that's 14 words to say what can be expressed with just one: LAPLETS.

 

She is clearly making this thread so that she can tell all of us that do anything different than her that we are wrong.

 

I always just hold my Air with one hand and type with the other. It's not like the older revisions that were so heavy that I had to prop them in a keyboard cover and rest in on my lap or belly.

 

I do one-handed thumb typing on my Mini while holding it with the other hand.

 

Two hand typing all the time for me on my Air. Love it. Never got into thumb typing. It's annoying.

 

I could never get used to two hand typing on an iPad. the full size keyboard is still too cramped and the angle of the iPad itself is odd.

The most comfortable typing experience for me is the iPad mini with split keyboard and typing with thumbs.

 

I've actually used the split keyboard since the iPad 2 through iPad 3, Mini, Air and now rMini. I type fairly long business email messages on a daily basis, and of course forum posts.

 

On the 4 I use split keyboard with thumbs. On the mini it's full keyboard with thumbs. I do have really large hands though, men's XL gloves tend to be a tight fit (to give you a clue).

 

No thumb typing for me either though. I can't see 2 handed typing though. I hold my Air in my left hand and type with the right. To type with 2 hands, I'd have to put it on my lap or some surface. I've gotten pretty used to 1 hand typing.

 

If you are sitting down, it is possible to rest the full size iPad on your lap and finger type. I don't do it myself (I thumb type) but I know people who do.

Well, I, for one, find the mini's keyboard too small. The keys are too close together, making me hit the wrong ones all the time. It just shows that people are different, and what works for you doesn't necessarily work for me, and vice versa.

 

How'd you know?

 

Like I said, my hands are huge. That being said, the mini is harder to type on because my fingers are huge as well and I tend to hit 2 keys at the same time which messes me up. The iPad keyboard size is perfect for me. I split it from time to time but can work either way. In landscape mode, I finger type with all 4 fingers of each hand (much like the regular computer keyboard) and have never had an issue.

 

Yeah, but isn't the positioning of your iPad awkward as a result?

 

How do you get a split keyboard? I though only Android did that.

 

Split apart the spacebar.

 

Seems to be a pattern. Next week she'll make the same thread with the opposite opinion.

 

Holy cow I never knew it did that! I can get used too thumb typing

 

Welcome to Apple's amazing feature discoverability! There are tons of hidden features you'll never learn unless you stumble upon someone mentioning them.

 

Thumb on the iohone and ipad mini, and fingers on the full size ipad