Guess as you type?, Like the Cellphones

Uh, the keyboard? What exactly are you trying to do?

 

take some typing lessons?

 

openoffice offers autocomplete function for words, it seems it has to be the word you previously typed.

but its more annoying than helpful on a full size computer.

 

Spell checker works well. What is wrong with spell check?

The Stig

 

I might be wrong but IIRC then when typing you can press escape and it will fill out the rest of the word for you, not very quick but the germ of the idea is already present.

 

In Safari windows at least, it's Opt-Escape. It should work in most Cocoa applications. It won't work in non-Cocoa apps like Office 04. I always forget about it. It's actually a very nice feature for when I'm using some more obscure word that's hard to spell....

You can pretty easily train (assuming you don't have any motor or neuromotor problems) to get at least up to around 80WPM... using predictive text requires you to interact back and forth much more than touch typing. Do you really think that you'll be able to do interactive faster than that? The only thing I've ever really heard of that's faster than good touch typing is voice recognition, and it has its own problems.

 

I am not sure about the predictive text that mobile phones have but there are a couple of great apps that can correct bad spelling and can be programmed with abbreviations for your most used phrases.

I use Textexpander and it is absolutely invaluable for someone with fat fingers that are somewhat slower than my brain.

http://www.smileonmymac.com/textexpander/
http://ettoresoftware.com/About TypeIt4Me.html