What are some helpful resources to learn to touch type on smartphones?
What are some helpful resources to learn to touch type on smartphones?
I can touch type with a physical keyboard, which helps somewhat with trying to type on smartphone virtual keyboards, but I still find myself way clumsier and error-prone on them when I try to touch tap-type on them.
For the most part I've worked around this via swipe/gesture-typing on virtual keyboards, but even that method is error-prone. So, I'd like to try to learn to tap-type similar to how I know how to touch type, but many resources I find are for physical keyboards instead, so...Any help here?
Can you even touch type on a screen without the feedback of physical keyboards?
Not as well as on a physical keyboard, but I can. I know how wide my phone is and I hold it in the same grip every time, so I can get it roughly correct and most mistakes are fixed by autocorrect anyway.
Nope. Not reliably any how. Touch typing relies on locating the F and J keys; which is why they have those raised bumps.
Now what you can do, is practice a similar tactic; except you’ll have to look at the screen to localize,
From what I've seen of some folks, it at least seems like it, but maybe I'm mistaken and it's more experience with tap-typing.
https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key this can be pretty quick once you get used to it
I've been trying it out and I like it a lot! Haven't switched yet though.
Looks nice. Anyone good advice which layout to choose to type 60% German and 40% english? There are several german ones available.
No clue, sorry. Looking at the list, I'd go with "multilingual thumb-key" or just thumb-key. Messageease is the proprietary keyboard thumb key is based on, and I think more thought has been put into making even more optimized layouts for thumbkey, so I'd guess the messageease one is a bit outdated, and I think there might be a two hand mode that "type-split" is for but idk
OK, what if I just care for privacy and I'm happy with the QWERTY layout?
I'd love to ditch Gboard, but it has my native language in it, plus word underline when misspelling words. I don't use predictive text or anything like that, just underline (I hate predictive text, it messes up my train of thought).
Alternatives?
I think it's more a matter of knowing the qwerty layout and trusting that the autocorrect will help you if you mess up.
Tbh that's probably correct, and the differences may be from me avoiding autocorrect as much as possible because of obnoxious stuff like it persistently trying to correct fav words like fuck
If you must type go to a real computer. A bluetooth keyboard might work too.
Of course! Just bring your laptop with you when you need to send a text message from the grocery store.
I know it looks difficult, but if you already touch type on PC then Minuum is a great mobile keyboard. You just have to train yourself to not try being precise with it (impossible to do quickly). I actually find it easier to use if I don't look at it while I'm typing. I've been using it since it was on Indiegogo and haven't seen anything else worth trying. I'm pretty sure you can even get it for free now.
Note that it does learn from you over time, so the more you use it the more accurate it becomes.
In the above image, I've put the cursor back on the word "accurate" for a little demo. The first group of letters are the ones that I actually hit. After that are Minuum's guesses in order of probability of being correct.
If you want to type a word that isn't in its dictionary yet, you can swipe up from the top row to bring up a full keyboard. Selecting the word once it's typed usually adds it, though for some reason they've excluded swears from that.
That is so wild! I love the inventiveness of human interface devices. Too bad it isn't FOSS, it'd be nice to see it in fdroid.
I guess you coud try one of those web pages for regular keyboard input training.
Anyway, i struggle with the same shit. Another recommendation, disable the auto corrector.
monkeytype.com! Offers typing challenges and tracks your progress.
Seeing how annoying it is to type on my steam deck I'm considering going back to T9 lol
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I guess I have to block this community because the name is a lie.