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How fast can you TEXT on the iPhone?

How fast can you text on the iPhone?

  • I can't text at all, 5 words per minute (what my dad can do)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I can get the job done...

    Votes: 6 4.7%

  • I'm mediocre, not very efficient. I'd rather call.

    Votes: 7 5.5%

  • I can fly, very quick and efficient. Can keep up with ease.

    Votes: 82 64.1%

  • I'm pretty much a god, and can text a novel in a matter of seconds.

    Votes: 33 25.8%
  • Total voters
    128
Trix

Trix

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Original poster
Feb 12, 2009
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I don't mean to sound cocky..but I can text extremely fast on my current phone. Like, I could probably blow teenage girls out of the water. Full tactile QWERTY keyboard HTC P4300 (?) or something.

I convey lots of information via text, and need to be an avid and be completely accurate. Definitely main mode of communication with many people.

How fast can you text on the iPhone?!
 
I was playing around at the Apple store earlier today with a new 3GS (first time with the S also...) And I found auto-correct to be less helpful than on the 3G when I used it last time. Granted, I slowed down, tried to be completely accurate (I include punctuation in my texts) and was getter better as I kept typing.

I want to be able to fly. What it felt like my trouble was, is that if I hit two letters close to eachother, like 'T' & 'Y' you really have to hit 'T' and then LET GO of the screen, and then hit 'Y' whereas I was hitting 'T' fast then going for the 'Y' and it only magnified the 'T' and then the 'Y'....which it ultimately placed. Does this make ANY sense??
 
Trix said:
I was playing around at the Apple store earlier today with a new 3GS (first time with the S also...) And I found auto-correct to be less helpful than on the 3G when I used it last time. Granted, I slowed down, tried to be completely accurate (I include punctuation in my texts) and was getter better as I kept typing.

I want to be able to fly. What it felt like my trouble was, is that if I hit two letters close to eachother, like 'T' & 'Y' you really have to hit 'T' and then LET GO of the screen, and then hit 'Y' whereas I was hitting 'T' fast then going for the 'Y' and it only magnified the 'T' and then the 'Y'....which it ultimately placed. Does this make ANY sense??
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Yes, you do have to remove your finger from the screen to type a letter. Makes it easier to correct yourself when you hit the wrong key initially.
 
jav6454 said:
I learned to text fast thanks to the iPhone's AutoCorrect feature. Thanks Apple for that one...
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Same here. I've found it to be pretty easy to even type without looking at a reasonable pace. Once your fingers are used to which keys they can hit, it's not that difficult to navigate around, get close to what you want to type, and AutoCorrect should take care of the rest when it needs to.
 
lilmitchmitch said:
Same here. I've found it to be pretty easy to even type without looking at a reasonable pace. Once your fingers are used to which keys they can hit, it's not that difficult to navigate around, get close to what you want to type, and AutoCorrect should take care of the rest when it needs to.
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Exactly. I can type pretty fast without looking. I guess my thumbs got used to where they can go. When I'm actually looking though, I type about 65 words a minute.
 
I fly on mine. Not even gonna lie. When I played with my first iPhone back on July 4, 2007, I made tons of errors and if you can imagine what result banging your head on a keyboard would yield, that was pretty much what my typing looked like. Now? I can do it without looking with both of my thumbs or one. Very fast. When my phone isn't on silent and the keyboard clicks are on, people jokingly say it sounds like a machine gun.

techfreak85 said:
someone should make a typing speed iPhone app.:p
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There is one. Its called Idle Hands.
 
Awhile back, there was this girl who broke a record by typing "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" in fifteen seconds. She didn't get to practice ahead of time.

There is a kid in New Zealand that set a new record for texting without looking at the keypad. He typed:

"The razor toothed piranhas of the genera serrasalmus and pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality, they seldom attack a human"

in a record breaking 45 seconds without any mistakes.

Not sure what kind of phones they used but I doubt they were iPhones. As for me, it would take me about 5 minutes to type all that on my old Razer phone.

Source
 
I used to type like, erm your dad, on all my old phones.

I type RIDICULOUSLY fast on my iPhone. I went from a 100 text plan to unlimited. It's probably actually my favourite thing about the phone.
 
The good thing is that nobody is as slow as my dad in the poll! lol

I can probably do 70-75 words per minute on my HTC, so when I ultimately do get the iPhone, I hope to work back up to that number.
 
Pretty fast now! Well.. I'm not suprised seen as I've had the phone since the first generation release! I'm just happy that the iPhone auto-correct *learns* the more you use it :)
 
I am pretty fast at typing on the iPhone keyboard...
I count on the auto-correct so much to save me.

I tried typing on my sister's Dare, and was horrible not only for the crappy keyboard but because the lack of auto-correct...
 
I would say that I'm extremely fast at typing. I just wish the GUI would keep up with me. I sounds like a harddrive doing random clicks because it will glitch then finally make the sound of the word I typed by the time I'm 2 words down. I'm hoping that when I get the new iPhone next year it will fix this. It's quite annoying as the keys magnify from a word ago so It just looks like the keyboard is going crazy. Again not bragging.
 
Trix said:
I was playing around at the Apple store earlier today with a new 3GS (first time with the S also...) And I found auto-correct to be less helpful than on the 3G when I used it last time. Granted, I slowed down, tried to be completely accurate (I include punctuation in my texts) and was getter better as I kept typing.

I want to be able to fly. What it felt like my trouble was, is that if I hit two letters close to eachother, like 'T' & 'Y' you really have to hit 'T' and then LET GO of the screen, and then hit 'Y' whereas I was hitting 'T' fast then going for the 'Y' and it only magnified the 'T' and then the 'Y'....which it ultimately placed. Does this make ANY sense??
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That's because there are hundreds of people that have been typing on the phone at the store. The iPhone "learns" the way you type and that's how it gets its suggestions.
 
Ive had my iphone for a little less than a month and I''m really surprised how fast i got used to texting with it. I actually enjoy texting more on the iphone then any other phone. Even portrait mode im pretty fast.
 
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