[gadrfgaesgysd]

On a side note. I have tried typing on an tablet well after learning touch typing on a normal keyboard. I remembered Jobs' presentation and back then I believed him how easy and wonderful it is to type on a pad. It is practically impossible, even typing something as simple as an url is a pain.

[coldtea]

Maybe you're doing it wrong? I've typed lots of posts and articles on a pad. And of course people type tons of text (messages, etc) on their iPhones and Android phones every day...

[collyw]

Touchscreen keyboards are a massive backward step in terms of usability.

[DanBC]

According to this game I have an average speed of 157 WPM on an iPhone 4s.

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/typingclass/id588121234?mt=8

http://imgur.com/TyEQ3nN

I really freaking hate typing on an iPhone 4s. I frequently hit space instead of a or backspace instead of l or m.

The keyboard isn't always the same and so sometimes I hit . instead of space.

The cheap bluetooth keyboard I bought makes typing very much nicer. That bluetooth keyboard is almost a toy, which is some indication of how terrible iPhone typing experience is.

(On a tangent: a version of that game using the hundred most commonly misspelled English words, or a simple / plain English vocabulary list would be useful. Especially if they software could speak the words at you.)

[300bps]

That game is horribly inaccurate. I downloaded it just now and on my first run it said I typed 185 words per minute average. That is over three words per second and I was typing nowhere close to that. More like 30 WPM while on a real keyboard I max out at 160 WPM with an average of 142.

[DanBC]

Oh no!

Still, that means I would be even more likely to pay for a spelling / typing game that had more accurate speed tests. I'm not particularly keen on the weapons theme, so some cutesy forrest animals throwing snowballs might work.

[coldtea]

How the duck can an application miscalculate something as basic as how WPM one gets?!

[coldtea]

>According to this game I have an average speed of 157 WPM on an iPhone 4s

Sorry, but how does that counter what I said? Parent said that typing on a touchscreen "It is practically impossible".

If you have 157 WPM on iPhone 4s then it's a counter-proof that as I said, it's anything but "practically impossible".

That you "hate it" is another thing, which I can understand. It's not the best experience in the world and obviously sub par to a full keyboard. But it's clearly not "impossible".

And your 157 WPM are for 4s as you said.

iPhone 6, with the larger target area and auto-prediction, makes it even easier, at least for me. And if the new model brings some tactile (force) feedback, that would be even better.

[gadrfgaesgysd]

Jobs would be proud...

[coldtea]

Regardless of whether Jobs would be proud or not, for both iOS AND Android AND Windows Phone, touch screen keyboards are the #1 most popular type, and for good reason. The people have spoken.

If they were such a hidrance people could always still buy the keyboard models they abandonded en masse starting 2007.

[collyw]

Not really. Phones and tablets are mainly used for consuming data, not creating it. Text messages / whatsapp are usually short. Do you actually know anyone that writes more than a normal letter page on a touchscreen? (I am sure they are out there, but in a minority).

[pjmlp]

> If they were such a hidrance people could always still buy the keyboard models they abandonded en masse starting 2007.

You mean the ones I keep on seeing on trains and planes?

[coldtea]

Yeah, I mean the statistical noise you see on trains and planes.