Is this how most people type on mobile these days, drawing lines all over a keyboard instead of tapping the individual keys? I’ve never had an iPhone so I don’t even know if they can do this natively, but I know you can switch keyboards at least, so it should still be an option if not.

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I bounce back and forth. I’m faster using two thumbs and tapping but if I’m typing one handed swipe is far superior.

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I have autocorrect turned off.
Full manual baybeeeeee

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Living life in the fadt lane.

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Same. I hate correcting autocorrect.

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Rawdogging those inputs

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You’re a brave man

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Ducking autocorrect.

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Same, but even when I type one-handed, I also bounce back and forth at each word. Swiping gets short words wrong more often, but more rarely long words.

So for instance, for “I am on vacation”, the only word I’d swipe when one-handed is “vacation”. If I swiped “am”, I’d probably have a 50-50 chance of getting “an”; which may or may not self-correct later, depending on what else it got wrong.

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Exact same. Two thumbs when typing longer responses or when both hands are free. One handed always swiping unless I need to type an uncommon word or name.

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TIL the creator of T9 predictive text also invented Swype

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Damn, talk about being on a roll!

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T9 was the shit

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I still use Swype somehow? Not sure how the app is still working after it was acquired, and I thought, abandoned.

Have tried many other swipe capable keyboards and none compare for me for some reason (even though quality of Swype recognition has gone down noticeably over the years).

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I thought it was just me. I swear the version of Swype that came with an ancient Motorola running Android 4 worked better than the version I use now.

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Android user here. Swipe style entry now for maybe 8 years? So much faster than individual tapping.

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I never got used to swipe. Though it works quite well. Maybe I should use it more.

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I use it all the time, it’s incredibly convenient. I’ve been using it for years now though, granted. The most annoying thing is when you have to go back and type out a word letter by letter because it’s nowhere close to what you were looking for – but that’s also the alternative of not using Swype. So… Shrug

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Both, I use swipe as my go-to method but if it doesn’t write the proper word I tend to erase it and type it one letter after the other (which happened 3 times as I wrote this comment).

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same, but with more mistypes, as the Ukrainian language has all these word endings that make words longer and harder for the keyboard to guess.

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This is the way! Also what a lot of others already commented, that it’s more smooth to use with one hand. For me it’s also nice to use, when it comes to switching languages. English is my second language and with swipe it feels like the autocorrect works pretty good, because it is more forgiving if you don’t know exactly how the word is actually written. A small idea about how the word is constructed is enough.

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This is very common if you switch languages often. Half the time I’m typing something in spanish and want an english word it jumps the gun and outputs a word I’ve never ever used, and viceversa. That said, I still prefer swipe.

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