I feel like I used to see a lot of women with super long nails struggling to use their touchscreen phones. I'm sure at least some of them have chosen slightly shorter nails to make it easier.

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[–] 73 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Nope. The ones I’ve seen use their knuckles, or awkwardly use the pads of their fingers. Saying this as a woman who doesn’t like long nails.

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  • [–] 38 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The prevelance of touchscreens much rather results in people lacking skills/efficiency/speed when using a regular computer keyboard

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    Ironically, I can almost type as fast on my phone (102 WPM PB) as I can on most keyboards (110 WPM PB), and that's with my weird improper method of touch typing. These scores are for the 15 second word test on MonkeyType.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    I assume that's SwiftKey/GBoard typing more than you, though? How fast are you on a computer with autocorrection turned on?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    thing is, for my dialect of German, autocorrect is less than useful, so for me, typing Bavarian on a phone keyboard is certainly the fastest at around 150 wpm, trumping english or german on any other board, probably because it exactly matches the way I speak and I've been doing it for 13 years

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  • No idea; does autocorrect even exist in an inbuilt fashion on Windows? I've never really tried using anything like that.

    Oh, and here's a one-off test I just did without autocorrection turned on. With a few more tries, I'm sure I could get up to 100+.

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  • [–] 34 points 3 years ago

    Ever gone through a Walmart checkout?

    I've never seen longer nails than on those cashiers, and they have to press buttons and touch screens all the damn time.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I think its more like a fashion thing. I still see it with a specific type of woman

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I have 0 struggles when using touch screen with long nails

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago

    It's trivial to use a touchscreen with nails of arbitrary length if you're used to it. You can easily just use the side, where the cuticle is. If you put on acrylics you'll have some trouble adjusting, but if you let it grow naturally you'll adjust as they grow

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Resistive ones worked better with nails than wothout them.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    I've seen nail polish that supposedly allowed them to work with touch screens, kinda like gloves that work with them. I dunno how well it works; I don't paint my nails (or have long nails to begin with). I just remember seeing it on the shelf while at Walmart and getting shampoo.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    The thing that confuses me about those nail polishes is like, anyone who uses nail polish to the point where they'd consider that would also be using a clear top coat, which seals the nail and would prevent the conductive nail polish from doing it's "thing"

    ...also it wouldn't work on most devices because most screens are capacitive, not resistive. Like you can use the backside of your nail on your screen with normal nail polish on and it'll work, because it's about the surface area and capacitive difference, not about closing a circuit

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    I tend to think that eventually they will only have fake long nails, and only when getting dressed up for something fancy.

    I'm general in the future teens will make memes about long nails like they do now for something like the hamburger phone, or JNCOs, or whatever 00's trend.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Eh technology will change again, before we see any major changes. I remember reading some fifteen years ago that due to texting on an oldschool mobile phone, our thumbs might evolve in a new way because we all of a sudden used thumbs in a new way. Some scientists predicted we'd started using thumbs for tasks we'd otherwise use our index fingers for.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It could, however, make a social trend for shorter fingernails (primarily on women, I imagine). Just meaning people are more likely to trim their nails shorter.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago

    I bite my nails and I fucking hate using touchscreens and touchpads without some kind of stylus.

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