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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.

TIL the creator of T9 predictive text also invented Swype

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

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).

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

I use it almost exclusively. It's not without its faults, but it does better for me than pressing individual keys.

Yes, that's my preferred method

I never could get into it. I type like it's a keyboard I actually don't even look at the keyboard I am looking at the input field and glancing down if I have to. Swipe sucks for me and is way less accurate than my method and I actually have to focus on the keyboard just to have worse WPM. I also get pissed off cuz if my hands are at all wet the typing tries to swipe.

P.s. it's hilarious to me that this long existing android feature is treated like some unique cool thing when Apple finally adopts it 10 years later. Like wireless and fast charging. But yeah I'm lame cuz I have a green bubble and don't use stupid personalized emoji thing

The google gboard has it built in for android. It's handy when using with one hand

I do now. I've been using OpenBoard for a few years after ditching the Google spyware keyboard, and recently I've learned about a fork of OB with gesture typing. It's perfect if I have just one hand available.

At first I never used it, always thought typing with two fingers was the fastest (and actually got me the result I wanted).

Nowadays I swipe 99% of the time on my Android phone and it is a lot faster. Especially when your phone learns the words you like to use. It's not perfect of course and you will have to correct some words down the line (it still sometimes refuses to swipe "Fuck"), but overall I'm faster with it.

Also super comfy for long and complex words when you just roughly swipe it and get the full word written there without errors.

Overall though I prefer to touch type on a proper keyboard on the PC, that's still the fastest :)

Reassuring to see the love for Swype in here. I'm still using Swype on Android. I've tried many other keyboards, gboard comes closest but still lacks some of the quality of life little features from Swype.

It often doesn't work well for very short words, or uncommon words and whenever I have to stop swiping to tap out individual words I feel like a time traveler being forced to use pre-historic tools.

Absolutely. Been doing that since my first Nexus phone. Without it, I find the mobile keyboard extremely unwieldy.

I've been using SwiftKey since like 2010 when I got my first smart phone that didn't have a keyboard (rip HTC Z).

i used to when i use pixel. Gboard is so good at it. iPhone stock keyboard is shit

I'm on Android and I swipe mostly unless autocorrect doesn't give me the word I wanted. Very good for one-handed typing.

From the early days of Android, Found a add-on keyboard called Swype... Never turned back, prolly 13 years ago now?

Do people NOT use it?!

Years, it's then oily way I tyre on phoney any Moore.

Jokes, but it really is almost the only way I type on my phone anymore.

Yes since when ever Swype was released.

When I got a pixel 7 pro, I was very sad to find out Swype dragon had been discontinued. The APK are still around, but I'm not sure I'm ready to root and or put a custom OS my pixel yet to get it installed.

I've been going back and forward between gboard and swift key. Both are orders of magnitude worse than Swype was at recognising traces for longer words. Blows my mind how Google and Microsoft still can't build something as good as decade old Swype.

Ish. I go back and forth between swiping and typing for no obvious reason that I can discern.

That was the only way I type on my android phone with GBoard but now with KDE mobile I am back in the dark ages.

Yep, it's so good you can even type without looking at the keyboard, like I just did.

I use it untill I need to type a name. Then I type normally and forget about swipe typing exists...

... I then start using it again the next week

The only time I'm using it is when I have to type with one hand only.

I've used it for several years now, and I could never go back. It makes me shudder to think of trying to type out words by tapping on individual letters again. Swiping is so much faster.

Type.

Swipe is weird and I don't like it.

I've tried it but I hate it. It feels weird. Unnatural. Unintuitive. I would also prefer a real, physical keyboard to a touch screen.

I use it all the time, but I've recently got a new phone and it's taking a while for the autocorrect to get used to my swiping, so it has a fair few mistakes currently

I switch between swiping and typing. It works pretty well most of the time.

I have used swipe keyboard since 2011.

One handed or laying down or just lazy = swipe

GBoard is great for swipe typing and a must have on all my phones. I also like the one-handed mode which lets you shrink and move the keyboard for easier reaching. I usually have it small, slightly higher up, and on the right side so I can type without having to stretch my thumb and can keep a firm grip on my popsocket. Recently sent an entire text message without looking at my phone while walking down the street.

I was an early adopter of T9 typing on my Nokia back in the day. When I finally got a smartphone, I found a keyboard app that had T9 as an option and used that. When Swype first came out, I couldn't believe that another typing system could actually beat the speed and ease of T9 typing.

I've always preferred to type in full words and sentences, and I'm a good speller, so most of the reasons other people don't like swipe typing don't apply to me.

I'm typing using a wild mix of swiping and typing...

I'm bilingual and the English keyboard is way better than the German... I have to type way more if I write in German. Which is quite annoying - therefore I tend to use a lot of English vocab when writing with my family because it is just plain faster.

Well I didn't use it before but Ur post made me try it out and ducking wow how well it works is actually amazing

For years now, and people are still amazed to watch me to it.