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by DanBC 3946 days ago
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.)
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300bps 3945 days ago
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.
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DanBC 3945 days ago
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.

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coldtea 3945 days ago
How the duck can an application miscalculate something as basic as how WPM one gets?!
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coldtea 3945 days ago
>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.

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