I use it all the time, but I've recently got a new phone and it's taking a while for the autocorrect to get used to my swiping, so it has a fair few mistakes currently
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I'm typing using a wild mix of swiping and typing...
I'm bilingual and the English keyboard is way better than the German... I have to type way more if I write in German. Which is quite annoying - therefore I tend to use a lot of English vocab when writing with my family because it is just plain faster.
I was an early adopter of T9 typing on my Nokia back in the day. When I finally got a smartphone, I found a keyboard app that had T9 as an option and used that. When Swype first came out, I couldn't believe that another typing system could actually beat the speed and ease of T9 typing.
I've always preferred to type in full words and sentences, and I'm a good speller, so most of the reasons other people don't like swipe typing don't apply to me.
Always, it’s faster
I started out using the Swype app back before it was a common feature. It works well for me and I've been using it ever since. The learning curve is not steep and it speeds up my typing back at least a factor of two.
Constantly! Probably like 30%-40% of my typing is one-handed by swiping.
Yep, super helpful for one handed use, especially with how big phones are these days
Test test. Okay it's kinda faster... I'm gonna try to use it more often!
Nope, typing this with buttons on a virtual keyboard right now! I mainly use a desktop for most of the day, so I just prefer using the same system on mobile too.
Ever since I had a smart phone
No. I tried it but I wasn't patient enough to get it calibrated to my needs.
I use it when I only have 1 free hand 😶🌫️
Almost always. I never really got the hang of tapping -- I don't write all that often on my phone, so I don't have the accuracy down. Swyping lets me use my general knowledge of the keyboard to make up for my poor accuracy.
Good ol' Fruit Ninja typing. Love it!
Nah I just type. Faster for me
Yes, even though my language makes it a bit frustrating to use at times.
When the stars align and my text mostly contains dictionary words, it can even be faster than typing on PC. However... my language is agglutinative, meaning that we like to add stuff to the end of our words to mean possession, direction, objective case, person, etc. That means that for every single unique case I need to add that modified word to the dictionary to be able to swipe it the next time. However, after a few years, it seems to be working really well : ).
It's really cool for typing one-handed.
I switch. I'm typing this comment out key by key. But I swipe onehanded just as fast.
I enabled it by accident once, can't say I understand how to pull it off!
Testing swipe to type. Fast when correct. But damn did i have to teepee so many times.
Edit: retype not teepee
I use it whenever I'm typing with one hand only. It works very well IMO, on gboard at least.
i only do regular "tap" typing
i tried swiping and its just annoyingly inaccururate (but i do switch off the auto correct, because it also sucks, and i switch between writing my native language, and english)
No I don't use it, never liked it
Sausage fingers. Swiping is much more reliable than trying to hit the little squares...
I used it for a while back when SwiftKey was good.
Fell out of the habit years ago, it never felt any faster for me.
Been using it since it came out.
I don't use swiping motions to type, at most I've used it a few times over the years.
It's an option on iOS. I use the FUCK out of it on every device that I have, even on tablets (though only in portrait mode, and with a reduced keyboard.) Yeah sometimes we mis-swipe, and some words (like "mis-swipe!") are not going to be recognized. But you type the weird words, swipe the rest, and then fix any mistakes by tapping on the word suggestions as you go. Besides, it's not like you shouldn't read it over once when you're done. People like to blame autocorrect for their mistakes but fr what the heck happened to editing your shit??
So yes, I use swipe, and it's objectively more efficient so everyone should!
I have never tried it but just typed this using it and 8 have to say I quite like it. Very good
I forgot that swipe to type was even a thing. Trying it now and it seems pretty good.
I usually just type as I find swiping unreliable.
As a side note, I just got a new phone with advanced haptics. This is the first time typing on a touch screen feels responsive 😯
Yes, 100%, I use an iPhone 13 mini and iOS’s one-handed swipe keyboard (right handed swiping on right side singlehand keyboard mode) is my default way of messaging. It goes very fast and detects language changes very accurately as well!
No, haven't tried it. I use voice to text when possible, i.e. quiet environment, no nearby ppl to annoy.
Swipe typing is the only thing that keeps me using google keyboard. Their implementation is the only one that works well for me. I think I used to use Swype before, that feels like forever ago
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