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[โ€“] 8 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

I really don't understand people that have the patience to hit every single letter on their virtual keyboard one by one. Glide typing or swyping or whatever you wanna call it is just so much faster, at least for me. Precision is also pretty good. These days you can even have multiple languages set and it'll generally figure out which you're using.

For those reading this that never tried it: OPs meme example is a very bad representation, and those errors would never even be possible. The whole thing is dictionary based, and contextual. So it might mix up whole and while, since they have essentially the same "trace". But "zhould" only becomes a word if it's been typed in manually by mistyping letters (I had to force correct it to get it to leave it in, even after manually typing it out).

If you have those kinda words in your dictionary, just remove them when they appear. On Android (Gboard) you just tap the word in the text to see the suggestions/alternatives, and drag the bad one into the trashcan that appears once you start dragging. After that it literally can't be swyped until you manually re-add it by typing it out (and possibly overriding am auto-correction).

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

    I love swiping, but swiping mistypes are significantly harder to decipher in comparison to classic mistypes:

    When you peck separate buttons, your mistype usually creates a distorted, but recognizable word and your brain is pretty good in filtering out that noise.

    When you are sliding however, mistypes create a real, but completely different word, so you need to squint not at the word, but at the whole sentence - to restore the meaning.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 2 hours ago

    I have not once in my life thought about if people reading a mistype would have an easier time if I'd use a different and much much slower typing method. Also I almost always read what I've typed before I send it, which in and of itself might make me pretty weird. But that also makes it much less of a valid consideration in the first place (in my pecific) case. It still happens of course, occasionally, but that in no way justifies the extra time spent to me. I also wouldn't want anyone else to waste more time for the same "typage" just so I might have an easier time reading something in case of a mistype.

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