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.

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

Well let's be honest it not better when you are typing with two hands... But with one hand it's actually looks daddy and convince are r to

Yep, super helpful for one handed use, especially with how big phones are these days

Constantly! Probably like 30%-40% of my typing is one-handed by swiping.

Almost always. I never really got the hang of tapping -- I don't write all that often on my phone, so I don't have the accuracy down. Swyping lets me use my general knowledge of the keyboard to make up for my poor accuracy.

Test test. Okay it's kinda faster... I'm gonna try to use it more often!

Good ol' Fruit Ninja typing. Love it!

Always, it’s faster

I started out using the Swype app back before it was a common feature. It works well for me and I've been using it ever since. The learning curve is not steep and it speeds up my typing back at least a factor of two.

Ever since I had a smart phone

I started using it with SwiftKey and when that went shit started using it with Gboard so probably 10 years...? If I have to do it cave man style it feels impossibly slow. My wife still types each individual letter out quite happily.

It's ironic because I used to have a BlackBerry back in the day and thought I wouldn't be able to cope without a physical keyboard

No. I tried it but I wasn't patient enough to get it calibrated to my needs.

Nah I just type. Faster for me

No I don't use it, never liked it

I don't use swiping motions to type, at most I've used it a few times over the years.

I have never tried it but just typed this using it and 8 have to say I quite like it. Very good

It's an option on iOS. I use the FUCK out of it on every device that I have, even on tablets (though only in portrait mode, and with a reduced keyboard.) Yeah sometimes we mis-swipe, and some words (like "mis-swipe!") are not going to be recognized. But you type the weird words, swipe the rest, and then fix any mistakes by tapping on the word suggestions as you go. Besides, it's not like you shouldn't read it over once when you're done. People like to blame autocorrect for their mistakes but fr what the heck happened to editing your shit??

So yes, I use swipe, and it's objectively more efficient so everyone should!

I enabled it by accident once, can't say I understand how to pull it off!

Yes, even though my language makes it a bit frustrating to use at times.

When the stars align and my text mostly contains dictionary words, it can even be faster than typing on PC. However... my language is agglutinative, meaning that we like to add stuff to the end of our words to mean possession, direction, objective case, person, etc. That means that for every single unique case I need to add that modified word to the dictionary to be able to swipe it the next time. However, after a few years, it seems to be working really well : ).

Sausage fingers. Swiping is much more reliable than trying to hit the little squares...

i only do regular "tap" typing

i tried swiping and its just annoyingly inaccururate (but i do switch off the auto correct, because it also sucks, and i switch between writing my native language, and english)

It's really cool for typing one-handed.

I use it whenever I'm typing with one hand only. It works very well IMO, on gboard at least.

I used it for a while back when SwiftKey was good.
Fell out of the habit years ago, it never felt any faster for me.

Been using it since it came out.

Nope, typing this with buttons on a virtual keyboard right now! I mainly use a desktop for most of the day, so I just prefer using the same system on mobile too.

I've used it since it was available. I would say 90% or more of my typing is swipe.

I use both! Mostly tap, but I use swipe enough that I would miss it if the feature was suddenly missing.

Honestly no

By the time it was added to iPhones I was already entrenched enough in just tapping that I never bothered learning how to swipe type.

I’m a two handed typer though, so I can see the benefit with a single finger typing

Yep. Used Swype way back in the day so I'm just used to it.@atocci

I forgot that swipe to type was even a thing. Trying it now and it seems pretty good.

No, haven't tried it. I use voice to text when possible, i.e. quiet environment, no nearby ppl to annoy.

Testing swipe to type. Fast when correct. But damn did i have to teepee so many times.

Edit: retype not teepee

I did use it but over the past months the input recognition got worse and worse so I switched to something completely different: thumbKey https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key

Funny thing that I discovered it around the same time I switched to lemmy as it is developed by the same guy...

Yes, 100%, I use an iPhone 13 mini and iOS’s one-handed swipe keyboard (right handed swiping on right side singlehand keyboard mode) is my default way of messaging. It goes very fast and detects language changes very accurately as well!