studiomusic
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Okay, okay! Let's see how fast she can do it with two hands then to make it 'fair'.
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Fastest Texting in the World Actually on an iPhone?
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Okay, okay! Let's see how fast she can do it with two hands then to make it 'fair'.
ChrisTX
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And to think no one forced you to do any of this. You wasted your own time. Sounds like a personal problem really.
Well, I only type on my Android phone casually, and I find Swype much easier to use then the "normal" touch-screen keyboard. All these extreme tests are pointless. In the end, it depends on the training of the persons in question. The person in the video is undoubtedly a pro in using the onscreen keyboard I couldn't be so fast even with a computer keyboard (well, mainly because I would have to look up the spelling of all this words an non-english native speaker). But for "normal" folks, Swype is really great. I am sure that Apple will at one point include something like that in the iPhone.
88 wpm. The standard touch-typing "word" is 5 letters (including spaces).
{[(160 char / 5 char/word) / 21.8 sec] * 60 sec/min} = 88 word/min
1 finger is still 2 hands!
It's a smart phone, you can't hold the phone and SWIPE with 1 finger, using only one hand.
Maybe SWIPE with one thumb, but that's much more challenging. Maybe more challenging then typing with one thumb.
Wm
It's a smart phone, you can't hold the phone and SWIPE with 1 finger, using only one hand.
Maybe SWIPE with one thumb, but that's much more challenging. Maybe more challenging then typing with one thumb.
Wm
Liquorpuki
macrumors 68020
he must be typing with two fingers on his desktop
*makes stabbing motion with both index fingers at table with head down*
😀
Two fingers: as fast as Ten
The guy in this video is pushing 88 wpm with two fingers. Maybe he's faster with all ten, but maybe not.
Touch screen requires less physical movement overall.
The guy in this video is pushing 88 wpm with two fingers. Maybe he's faster with all ten, but maybe not.
Touch screen requires less physical movement overall.
try it with shapewritter should be a nano second faster but lets save that for when the record gets tough to beat.
P.S I am sure there are a bunch of Elementary to High school kids that will make the record a REAL record more so when they get mad and they are typing stuff that want to type
P.S I am sure there are a bunch of Elementary to High school kids that will make the record a REAL record more so when they get mad and they are typing stuff that want to type
BeSweeet
macrumors 68000
koobcamuk
macrumors 68040
Rodimus Prime
macrumors G4
Well I will say that the speed says nothing about iPhone vs Swype.
Reason for it is is more standard touch screen vs Swype. Android phones can and do have access to keyboards with auto correction on par with the iPhone that work effectually the same way.
Swype my understand of it is that it takes some practice to get it down. For short works it is better to tap it out but longer words you swype it out. Makes for an interesting combination.
Reason for it is is more standard touch screen vs Swype. Android phones can and do have access to keyboards with auto correction on par with the iPhone that work effectually the same way.
Swype my understand of it is that it takes some practice to get it down. For short works it is better to tap it out but longer words you swype it out. Makes for an interesting combination.
crisss1205
macrumors 6502a
I have used "SWYPE" (Something similar) with my jailbroken first gen iPhone, before the first Android phone ever came out.
SWIPE is a new name for ShapeWriter
ShapeWriter, I still have it installed on my iPhones, & iPad. The tech was bought, and new owners took it off sale everywhere, and now SWIPE is in Android.
In theory, Apple could license it, or an App Dev could, but my gut tells me Google may have an exclusive for a period of time.
ShapeWriter, I still have it installed on my iPhones, & iPad. The tech was bought, and new owners took it off sale everywhere, and now SWIPE is in Android.
In theory, Apple could license it, or an App Dev could, but my gut tells me Google may have an exclusive for a period of time.
pubwvj
macrumors 68000
Slow...
Jeepers that is slow either way. Touch typing on a keyboard I'm two or three times faster without any advanced predictive help. This makes me really appreciate producing content on my notebook. The onscreen keyboards have a long ways to go. I am very glad that we can have a Bluetooth keyboard with the iPad.
Jeepers that is slow either way. Touch typing on a keyboard I'm two or three times faster without any advanced predictive help. This makes me really appreciate producing content on my notebook. The onscreen keyboards have a long ways to go. I am very glad that we can have a Bluetooth keyboard with the iPad.
spillproof
macrumors 68020
skeep5
macrumors 6502a
krzyglue
macrumors regular
This got me thinking: I don't have an android phone so I can't comment on it personally, but of all the "reviews" of the swype program I can find on youtube, most people held & swiped with their thumb, as their other hand held the camera. Didn't look very uncomfortable.
No you do not. I can swipe over t, h, and r, and the result will be "the". You simply have to swipe within a predetermined radius of the letter for it to pick out the result.
