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I thought it was going to be next level when I first saw it, maybe a decade ago. Tried it, did not like it at all.
Could never get into it. I'm forever pausing to think mid-word or mid-sentence, and it doesn't seem to work well in that circumstance.
I do more often then not and I’m on iOS
Swiping can be useful if I have fake nails on but largely I just individually tap with my thumbs
I do. Google's Gboard even work well in multiple languages.
It took me a few days to get familiar until it's clicked. It's really convenience because you can easily type with 1 hand.
Think just pressing a few key and pick from the suggestion is equally fast, but I with swipe, I can type without looking at the screen.
Yes, I have been using swipe typing since the Nokia N9, which had this feature. However, there was a gap in my use when the iPhone didn’t support custom keyboards. It wasn’t until they introduced the capability and implemented it natively that I started using swipe typing again.
Depends on the keyboard. I'm currently using Florisboard and swipe is nigh unusable. Lol
There are also no suggestions and no autocorrect (even though i usually have it turned off anyway).
Wait, why am i using this again...?
Edit: i am now trying 8Vim. Oh god. Send help.
As with a few others I only really use it when I’m using the phone one handed. If I’m eating and want to reply. Otherwise two thumbs tapping away is quicker for me.
Yes. I was the last last person I knew to get a smart phone.
Swiping is the only way I can possibly type on a non-tactile keyboard. It works even better than I first expected.
I usually swipe but it doesn't always fill in the right word...so if I'm sending a long or time-sensitive message I just type it out.
Yes, started using it about a year ago and it's amazing how much easier it is.
swipe for common 3+ letter words, tapping for unusual words and uncommon pronouns, and very short words. I guess I've learned what swipe is good at guessing and what it's bad at.
Sometimes, but mostly I use tap to type. Usually swipe is accurate, but I don’t always want the risk that it’ll get something wrong and it’ll take longer to fix it than if I’d just typed it straight away.
I have for years wouldn't go back
99% of the time I just tap the letters but maybe once in a blue moon I swipe in something. I'm closing in on 50 so it's probably just me being old
I do. Not exclusively, but more often than not.
I find it to be much slower and less accurate than standard typing with autocorrect. I try from time to time for fun, or when I have only one hand available, but it's not something to be used day to day.
I use it when I'm typing one handed, but I'm also a bit of an oddball who uses the Dvorak keyboard on my phone, which comes with it's trade-offs.
For two-handed typing I like it a lot, with the vowels all on the left side of the screen I feel like I alternate between my left and right thumb pretty well.
But it does seem to make swipe typing a bit less accurate because all the vowels are all clustered together so for example bat/bot/bet/but/bit are all a bit closer together than they would be otherwise (although Gboard usually seems to a pretty good job of sorting it out from context)
I use it, and combining it with autocorrect and suggestions I find it really easy and fast to use.
Yes, I use it all the time, it really works well and I am much faster than typing
I tend to swipe (on Android btw) whenever I only have one hand available, and type when I have both. It works really well and barely ever comes up with a wrong with.
I use a hybrid. If I'm typing with both hands, and I need to be speedy I'll typically use regular typing, but if I'm just causally typing stuff out or only have one hand I'll use swipe. I like having the option
I mostly use the swipe method on my iPhone, yep
From time to time yeah, I heard that with enough practice I should be able to type faster
Excessively, yes. Most people look at me weirdly when I tell them I do, though, but I've grown quite fond of the swipe input method.
Nope.
I do but it causes so many words typos so for most stuff is fine but every once in a while it really makes a sentence