Do you use the swipe to type feature on your phone?

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Is this how most people type on mobile these days, drawing lines all over a keyboard instead of tapping the individual keys? I've never had an iPhone so I don't even know if they can do this natively, but I know you can switch keyboards at least, so it should still be an option if not.

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I bounce back and forth. Iโ€™m faster using two thumbs and tapping but if Iโ€™m typing one handed swipe is far superior.

This is the way to do it. Autocorrect is doing 90% of the work in either case anyway, lol.

I have autocorrect turned off.
Full manual baybeeeeee

Same, but even when I type one-handed, I also bounce back and forth at each word. Swiping gets short words wrong more often, but more rarely long words.

So for instance, for โ€œI am on vacationโ€, the only word Iโ€™d swipe when one-handed is โ€œvacationโ€. If I swiped โ€œamโ€, Iโ€™d probably have a 50-50 chance of getting โ€œanโ€; which may or may not self-correct later, depending on what else it got wrong.

Exact same. Two thumbs when typing longer responses or when both hands are free. One handed always swiping unless I need to type an uncommon word or name.

TIL the creator of T9 predictive text also invented Swype

I still use Swype somehow? Not sure how the app is still working after it was acquired, and I thought, abandoned.

Have tried many other swipe capable keyboards and none compare for me for some reason (even though quality of Swype recognition has gone down noticeably over the years).

I thought it was just me. I swear the version of Swype that came with an ancient Motorola running Android 4 worked better than the version I use now.

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

I never got used to swipe. Though it works quite well. Maybe I should use it more.

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

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).

This is very common if you switch languages often. Half the time I'm typing something in spanish and want an english word it jumps the gun and outputs a word I've never ever used, and viceversa. That said, I still prefer swipe.

This is the way! Also what a lot of others already commented, that it's more smooth to use with one hand. For me it's also nice to use, when it comes to switching languages. English is my second language and with swipe it feels like the autocorrect works pretty good, because it is more forgiving if you don't know exactly how the word is actually written. A small idea about how the word is constructed is enough.

same, but with more mistypes, as the Ukrainian language has all these word endings that make words longer and harder for the keyboard to guess.

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

You should be able to turn off the swipe inputs for the kb entirely, at least i could on mine (the accidental activation was annoying me too). You can probably find it searching for swipe in the settings.

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

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

Ah, yes. For one handed typing. It's probably pretty accurate if it's just learning off of the few phrases you type one handed. I'm sure it's the same few pretty frequently.

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

Yeah, same, I think I had a paid version of Swype way back when and used that until they integrated it into Android. That being said, there are some words I will type in letter by letter, because some longer words require a lot of swiping, or won't be recognized easily. Autodefenestration for example.

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.

Thanks for linking! Currently using OpenBoard to get away from Swiftkey's privacy issues, but OpenBoard's lack of swipe has been a hard adjustment. FlorisBoard is en route to swipe tho it's still very much in beta (but feels like alpha with the current implementation)

I'm not optimistic about Floris. A while ago they've made the decision to completely rewrite everything - a common occurrence among small-time FOSS projects, and almost always results in the project completely dying (or in a "better" case scenario, coming out of the ordeal as only a shell of its former self). Floris Board... Has not had any receipt in a while.

But fortunately with this fork of OB existing, there isn't much need for it anymore. It would be nice to have a selection of modern FOSS keyboards, but, ah well.

Oh nice! Will try this out thanks for sharing!

I've swiped since the early days of Swype. This forked version of OB let's you swipe only on the English layout. Swipe doesn't work for the other two languages I use. And English isn't my main one. Don't see much development for the keyboard either, so I'll probably have to wait a long time to use it as a daily driver. So, sadly I'm stuck with GB for now...

You can try AnySoftKeyboard or FlorisBoard, but both are more experimental than OB the commercial products.

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

Loved my HTC Z. I could type so fast on that thing

Annoyingly, my PKB stopped responding in patches, and they were out of production so they replaced it with a Sensation XL.

Flogged it when I got it, and went back to BlackBerry.

This Samsung Galaxy Flip 3 is pretty much the first touchscreen only phone I've had in about fifteen years.

I feel like the accuracy has gone down over the years. Also, Gboard has had an issue for a bit now where it will show that I'm swiping one long word but insert a different one when I let go.

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 :)

The inability to get duck to move up the list is insane. I'm blows my ducking mind everytime autocorrect rears it's stupid ducking head like I'm a mother ducking child that can't curse via text.

I'm a 40 year old man for ducks sake. Let me use a ducking word.

Swiped on my stupid ducking Gboard.

Duck it. My keyboard don't want to use duck also!

Fyi. Used swipe also. Wow I'm getting the hang of this swipe thingie.

I tried it years ago on swift key. But because of android at that time being laggy as shirt. It wasn't always working.

You got profanity enabled? It's an option not on by default. Turn it on.... Or don't... See if I give a fuck. I might not... Because I'm running pretty low on fucks to give.. and I don't really want to run out else I'll be fucked. Google default keyboard with profanity enabled incase you have to fucking know.

Next time it autocorrects duck or ducking, try a long press on the word and you should get an option to no longer guess that word. Depending on the keyboard you're using you can typically long press on fuck or fucking and add it to the dictionary as well.

In an unsurprising twist, Gboard doesn't allow you to dictionary remove duck.

Bunch of gits.

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

Gboard is available on iOS isn't it? I found it on the App Store at least.

Youre right. The reason i went with iPhone is im trying to avoid using google services. Im a fan of Android but google is crazy with all the tracking. Tried graphene but i need something that just works.

Also i dont like having too many apps on my phone.

That makes sense. I know it's probably not much better since it's Microsoft, but what about Swiftkey? It always seemed to be more accurate than Gboard, for me at least.

Thanks for the suggestion. Never tried swiftkey tbh. Never knew MS acquired them. I guess im just used to gboard when i used Android because it support Multilingual. Gboard is so good with that clipboard function, edit clipboard, swipe to type, auto suggest, auto correct, multilingual and swipe to delete. Thats why i never even think of trying other keyboard.

Iphone keyboard is so barebone. Doesnt even support my language for mulitlingual.

You..... Went to Apple to avoid Google? Seriously? Like Apple is somehow not as bad as Google?

Eh. Depends at how you look at it. I mean what else is there to jump ship? Graphene? Calyx? Im not young as im used to be. I dont have time to tinker everything. I just need something stable and just works. Grapehene is easier than ever. Just plug it in and youre good to go but you still need to find reliable email provider. contacts. notes and all that

What happen if my phoneโ€™s dead? Can i just buy a new phone and restore from backup easily like icloud backup?

Im not here to argue which is better at privacy or security.

You can only basically change the skin on an iphone keyboard. Downloading another keyboard still uses the apple keyboard under the hood. That's why all Apple keyboards are such trash compared to Android.

Same with your browser. You can download a new browser, but it's still Safari.

I have an iphone for work and I hate typing on that POS keyboard. Can't even change it because Apple.

You should be able to change it now, there are other keyboards on the app store at least.

I didn't even realize there were options, usually it's Apple's way or the highway.

iOS keyboard is pretty good in iOS 17. The iPhone's keyboard on iOS 17 leverages a transformer model, which OpenAI (the company behind ChatGPT) uses in their own language models, to learn from what you type on your keyboard to better predict what you might say next, whether it's a name, phrase or curse word.

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.

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.

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

I don't understand how with all the ai we have not it can't auto correct properly with the context of the sentence, but I still can't use letter typing as an alternative, it's too slow

It's the only way I could have typed anything of substance for the past 2 months with a fractured elbow.

One handed and to a degree even without looking. I checked before sending, but this text right here has been written without looking at the keyboard.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Why do you need root or custom os for a keyboard apk tho, did you meant to say it's not supported on latest android versions?

Do people NOT use it?!

I'm surprised how many people don't in this thread.

I've never used it before but so far it seems slower than just typing with my fingers. Too used to using two hands to type I guess.

I can already type pretty fast on my phone. Throw in the suggested word completion and I don't really feel like I need to use it.

I tried using it for a few months and just kept getting wildly inaccurate predictions. It wasn't any faster or easier so I just continue typing normally. Plus the multi-language recognition isn't good enough in my experience.

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

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

That's how most my messages look before I fix them when I type normal.

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

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'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.

Sometimes when I can't use both hands. Otherwise, I prefer typing.

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.

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

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

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It just knows what you type one handed.

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.

One handed or laying down or just lazy = swipe

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

Same, mostly my iphone friends. I don't know why fewer of them seem to use it.

iPhone didn't have native swipe keyboard until 2019. I'm guessing a lot of people had iPhones for years without having a native swipe option so they just never bothered with it. I'm definitely in that category. Honestly I totally forgot it was even a thing until reading this post just now. After years of practice I'm crazy fast with two thumb typing, I can only imagine swipe would slow me down to the point of irritation.

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

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.

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

I use it when I only have 1 free hand ๐Ÿ˜ถโ€๐ŸŒซ๏ธ

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

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.

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.

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 switch. I'm typing this comment out key by key. But I swipe onehanded just as fast.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 : ).

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)

First time I ever used this was about a million years ago using (I think) the first keyboard app to introduce this; 'Swype' on Android. Dedicated GBoard user for years now, but swiping to type is so fast and accurate...

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

Swipe typing is the only thing that keeps me using google keyboard. Their implementation is the only one that works well for me. I think I used to use Swype before, that feels like forever ago

It was about 5 years ago that I last used Swype, and man do I miss it. Gboard, like you said, does very well. But I recall fewer frustrations with Swype when it was still supported. Sigh...

I worry about Google using the keyboard to violate my privacy so i moved to 8vin. It is a really odd keyboard but you get used to it after a few weeks.

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

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...

It's really unbelievable how bad swiftkey is, especially after seeing what language models can do nowadays. The number of times it has entered a totally absurd and exotic word in the wrong language in the middle of a very common phrase like 'see you later', is just ridiculous.

I'm testing thumb key right now. There's definitely a learning curve, but i'll see how fast I can get. Thanks for the tip!

I usually just type as I find swiping unreliable.

As a side note, I just got a new phone with advanced haptics. This is the first time typing on a touch screen feels responsive ๐Ÿ˜ฏ

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

Edit: retype not teepee

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, 100%, I use an iPhone 13 mini and iOSโ€™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!

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.

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

i never do. im quite an old school mobile typer in general - i dont use any autocorrect features, barely use autocomplete word suggestions... i type with two fingers which are my left index finger and right thumb. call me crazy, but it works wonders for me, and whenever i display my mobile typing speed people are amazed. can definitely recommend trying to type without any assistance for a while because it can ultimately lead to some very strong results :3

I don't, but I also tend to talk about stuff that tends to involve a lot of atypical names or words or slang that gets autocorrected to something wrong a lot when I use swipe, and I can't be arse to figure out how to get it to work for that stuff, so I just stick to typing it out most of the time. It just feels more natural for me.

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

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

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 find it too hit or miss at the speed i want to swipe at. It usually has a hard time getting the word, so it would just be faster to type it even with all of the mistakes

no I don't. I use a chorded keyboard called pentikeyboard

Oh, that looks interesting but with a high learning curve, haha! Kinda interested in trying it, but not sure if it supports Norwegian characters though.

It does take a bit of getting used to. But typing on it feels awesome. since it uses just 5 keys, I have also implemented a version of it that works on my digital piano to type on my pc using midi (useful for loading sheet music on screen without having to get up.

Also, I use termux on android. I like the keyboard because it doesn't take up half the screen by itself and also allows me to "easily" use function keys and modifiers.

As with a few others I only really use it when Iโ€™m using the phone one handed. If Iโ€™m eating and want to reply. Otherwise two thumbs tapping away is quicker for me.

Honestly, I have never been able to do this. I guess I am terrible at typing.

I have a Z Fold as my phone, so I tend to switch between tapping and swiping depending on if its open or closed. I can only really swipe on the smaller screen, and have to tap on the big one. It made me wonder what others do, because before this I can't remember the last time I tapped for anything other than correcting spelling of tougher words to swipe.

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.

I used to do it when phones had smaller touch screens. Now I type with both thumbs. That is a lot faster than swiping with one finger

A lot of keyboards have a one-hand mode that really helped and kept me using the swipe typing even as the screens kept getting bigger.

I tried it once years ago and couldn't get into it, found it kept guessing everything wrong or I was using it wrong, not sure. But just recently I got a smartwatch and heard many people recommending it and on such a small screen, it's incredibly good at what it does. I may try it again on my phone soon as I'm starting to like it.

I do if I need to type something really really quickly, but I still type normally if I'm trying to carefully format something with proper grammar and all that (like a Lemmy reply, for example!)

I still to this day hate touch only phones and wish I had physical keys again. That being said, I use swipe, and it makes things a lot more tolerable.

Ever since Swype came out I've been using it. I tried to use swiftkey and gboard when swype stopped updating. But I went back to Swype even if it is deprecated it just feels better to me

I had to think about this for a bit but I think I do both a bit of swiping and typing with my thumbs. I think swiping is especially useful one handed, imo.

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.

I feel like I'm much faster swiping.

Anecdotally, around me I'm the only one that swipes. I see a lot of my friends don't swipe, and have even had people ask me about it.

Itโ€™s really the only way I type on a phone or iPad

Is it a native feature now or do you need to use a different keyboard for it?

iPhones can do this natively now. I use it sometimes. It really depends on a lot of factors. How long is my message? How many hands are free? Do I feel patient right now?

Swiping can be useful if I have fake nails on but largely I just individually tap with my thumbs

Yup, been using Google keyboard pretty reliably for 8 years or so, but still need to use popup options and proofread and make corrections. I find the voice "typing" faster and more accurate now, but don't want to speak to my phone when people are around.

For a long time, maybe since they introduced it until about 2 years ago, and then I feel like they really got the voice to text down, and I mostly use that now

I swipe and tap to type. It really depends on what I'm doing. If I'm typing one handed, swiping is really nice and super fast. I'll also swipe to type if my phone is on the table and I'm only typing with one finger. If I'm using both hands, I will generally tap to type.

Edit to add I used SwiftKeys on Android

I've never tried it before but wow... It's kinda interesting...

May play with it more now but it doesn't really feel faster to me.

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 didnโ€™t support custom keyboards. It wasnโ€™t until they introduced the capability and implemented it natively that I started using swipe typing again.

I do when one handing my phone, but when I unfold it I use both thumbs usually

I still use nintype even though the dev disappeared years ago. Simultaneous double swiping and a VERY good learning dictionary. You can hit like 80 wpm without much effort.

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.

iPhones can natively do swipe to text and I love the feature. It also seems to have improved accuracy as a result of the iOS 17 keyboard updates. I always find myself mixing swipe to text and regular typing together. I hardly even think about it really.

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.

I mostly use the swipe method on my iPhone, yep

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'd love to, my phone doesn't support it, though. In the past I've used it every time.

I've been using it exclusively for nearly a decade at this point.

This is the first time I try this. This is a lot of fun!

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 do. Not exclusively, but more often than not.

I use it, and combining it with autocorrect and suggestions I find it really easy and fast to use.

The only time I've ever used swipe was when Nintype/Keyboard69 was still supported. The two finger swipe was the only time swipe could keep up with my tap typing speed, and sometimes exceed it, but since then nobody has come in and done anything as revolutionary with the typing game, and Nintype is simply too out of date and buggy, but man, I really miss it.

Yes, I use it all the time, it really works well and I am much faster than typing

I tried it several times and couldn't get the hang of it. I'd always overshoot the character I was going for. I had a colleague who was amazingly fast with swiping to type.

The only time I've ever used swipe was when Nintype/Keyboard69 was still supported. The two finger swipe was the only time swipe could keep up with my tap typing speed, and sometimes exceed it, but since then nobody has come in and done anything as revolutionary with the typing game, and Nintype is simply too out of date and buggy, but man, I really miss it.

From time to time yeah, I heard that with enough practice I should be able to type faster

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)

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.

I run LineageOS on my phone so I sadly don't have that feature. I found it was easier for me to quickly reply to texts but I would still fall back to typing with 2 thumbs (as I am now) and now that I have no swype-esque keyboard I think I may be faster without it.

100%. I use a third party app called Nintype which actually lets you two-thumb swipe type - to my knowledge the only one that has this as a feature. It's so so much faster than single thumb swiping and peck typing once you get used to it. Sadly it's been abandoned by the dev, so I'll be gutted when whatever iOS version decides Nintype is too old and no longer supported

Keyboard69 (the android version of nintype) was wild. I loved the visuals, but the learning curve put me off sadly. I wish the dev had stuck to it, it really was the keyboard of the future, way ahead of its time.

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

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 donโ€™t always want the risk that itโ€™ll get something wrong and itโ€™ll take longer to fix it than if Iโ€™d just typed it straight away.

I used to use it all the time, but when I switched to a Dvorak layout it didn't seem as efficient as on QWERTY.

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.

Itโ€™s usually more accurate for me and requires less energy since I donโ€™t have to lift up my finger much.

Yep, although I tend to use a combination of typing and swiping. Mostly swiping though. SwiftKey keyboard ftw (Microsoft, I wish I could quit you).

Yes, started using it about a year ago and it's amazing how much easier it is.

hate to admit it but yeah mainly when iโ€™m driving.

For your safety, and more importantly, the safety of other drivers, bikers, and pedestrians... DONT TOUCH YOUR PHONE WHILE DRIVING!

You might not care about your life, but please dont take others. Please dont be selfish