Comment on Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills

• halfapage@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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  • Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Tried using swipe typing before and honestly I’m just faster typing normally.

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    • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yeah, autocorrect is bad enough without the extra emphasis on it with swipe.

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    • morrowind@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It’s vastly better when you need to type with one hand

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      • Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        True, but otherwise I just type faster normally.

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  • mwguy@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It works well for casual conversation. But if you’re trying to have a technical conversation it will fail on uncommon or custom words or phrases.

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  • don@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Can confirm, it’s worth the effort.

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• altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yeah, I’m a swiper myself and I can’t imagine anyone being able to swipe without knowing the keyboard layout like one would for typing.

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  • snooggums@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    A swiping motion and muscle memory for tapping are two different things. It took a while to get fast with my thumbs even though I type fairly fast on a keyboard.

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• tabular@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  There’s a mode where you swipe your finger over each letter in order and it auto completes the word. Not sure how often younger people use it (though I wasn’t aware you could do that until I saw someone younger doing it).

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  • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Sounds like predictive T9 but slower

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    • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      No it’s actually way faster. You can swipe whole words in less than a second. It’s like writing with pen and paper but each letter is actually a whole word.

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      • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Agreed, it’s pretty great. And while the computer sometimes misunderstands what you swipe, it will show you potential alternatives you can tap on. Like in this screenshot: example of swipe keyboard showing alternative words

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    • xpinchx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      T9 was supreme.

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