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Fastest Texting in the World Actually on an iPhone?

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Portrait mode for me, too. You just have to keep going when you make a mistake and trust autocorrect to fix it. I'm not quite as fast as the video, but I'm awfully close. Predictive and auto correct are awesome. You can pretty much just bang on the keyboard where the letters kind of are.
 
Moonlight said:
1873 AD:

In just a few short decades the entire working class of this planet will be able to TYPE at a feverish pace and will have absolutely no clue how to interact face to face. In true Asimov fashion they'll abhor the thought of being in physical proximity of others.
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So basically surrogates?
 
Holy Thumb Cramps Batman!

That must have taken some practice.

I have to say as bizarre as this article is, it's even more bizarre that it made it to page 1.
 
The qwerty keyboard was designed to slow typists down. The hammers would jam into each other and get stuck if you typed too fast.
 
What a silly text message. Everyone knows 99.9% of texts look like:

HW R U? M FN. LOLZ DOOD.
 
Hawkeye411 said:
Imagine how much money he could make if he practiced a real skill like lead guitar??
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Ha ha. Not much, as most musicians who are not Bruce Springsteen or Eric Clapton (that is, most musicians) will tell you.
 
sishaw said:
Ha ha. Not much, as most musicians who are not Bruce Springsteen or Eric Clapton (that is, most musicians) will tell you.
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Yes, but even if its not profitable, being able to play guitar in your spare time is certainly much more valuable in terms of personal enjoyment over a lifetime than being able to text fast.
 
maybe change the name "macrumors" to "all kinds of crap iphone related"

some kid texting a message...frontpage news hey

i wasted 15 sec of my life watching it + 23 sec. typing this, and i'll never get the lost time back.
 
Impressive but I can still talk faster. I hope speech recognition is where it's all heading... (I am an old guy)...
 
ten-oak-druid said:
Yes, but even if its not profitable, being able to play guitar in your spare time is certainly much more valuable in terms of personal enjoyment over a lifetime than being able to text fast.
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Would being a pianist or drummer count?

the editor said:
maybe change the name "macrumors" to "all kinds of crap iphone related"

some kid texting a message...frontpage news hey

i wasted 15 sec of my life watching it + 23 sec. typing this, and i'll never get the lost time back.
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That's your own fault for watching it.
 
ten-oak-druid said:
Yes, but even if its not profitable, being able to play guitar in your spare time is certainly much more valuable in terms of personal enjoyment over a lifetime than being able to text fast.
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Yes, there are non-monetary benefits to being a musician, but most do not make a living at it. Of course, there's more to guitar playing than just speed, which is pretty much the whole thing in these texting "records".
 
"As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point. Natural selection, the process by which the strongest, the smartest, the fastest, reproduced in greater numbers than the rest, a process which had once favored the noblest traits of man, now began to favor different traits. Most science fiction of the day predicted a future that was more civilized and more intelligent. But as time went on, things seemed to be heading in the opposite direction. A dumbing down. How did this happen? Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it began to simply reward those who reproduced the most, and left the intelligent to become an endangered species."
 
Must Be Typed Caps and Punctuation Matter

You can't use predictive text. Swipe is not predictive. With swipe you must put your finger on every character.

Caps matter along with punctuation.
The message must be exact.
 
This has literally been around since that stupid commercial started airing with the first "world record". When I saw that commercial, I paused my tv, grabbed my phone and beat the "world record" by 4 seconds -- on my second try.

I am a very fast typer, but not anywhere near the fastest. The fact that media outlets like this and Gizmodo are JUST now realizing that this "world record" is crap is laughable. Welcome to 4 months ago.

P.S. - I did it with NO mistakes unlike the dude in the commercial who does and has to make correction. People who say that prediction isn't allowed never actually watched the commerical.
 
I wrote a whole book on an iPhone 3G

This isn't surprising. Once you are used to the autocorrect, you can really move, even with just one thumb. I actually used my iPhone almost exclusively to write a book of poetry. Since it was a poem a day, I really needed to use the phone since you never know when inspiration would strike. Check it out here! http://www.one-weak.com
 
jayducharme said:
I think this is interesting to counter all those people who insist that an on-screen keyboard (especially the iPhone's) is bad for "serious" typing. As for myself, I type as fast on the iPhone as I do on my desktop keyboard. So I'm happy with it.
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you must be the slowest typer in the world. How on earth can you type the same speed with two fingers as you do with ten?
 
Consultant said:
FAIL. People get trained for fast typing for the legal profession.
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Court reporters don't type; they use steno machines, which are much faster (300 wpm is common).
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