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The prevelance of touchscreens much rather results in people lacking skills/efficiency/speed when using a regular computer keyboard
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.
But I would assume you're used to using a 'manual' keyboard whereas if you only grew up on touchscreens its probably more difficult to get familiar to.
Perhaps, but I sucked at touch typing when I was younger.
I assume that's SwiftKey/GBoard typing more than you, though? How fast are you on a computer with autocorrection turned on?
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
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+.