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by debaserab2 2278 days ago
My nieces and nephews seem to have zero problems navigating a touch screen and type faster than I can.

Might not be intuitive to us, but it definitely is to them.

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Mine don't. They've only ever really had tablets, and I just recently got a Pi for one of them to learn physical touch typing on.

I'm always annoyed phone typing specifically because I can't do anything but focus on the damn on screen keyboard until the message is complete. I remember being able to write reams of text on my old cell with a pop out keyboard, or even with the T9 setup on a Nokia brick entirely by feel, and nigh-automatic.

I don't think I've ever communicated/operated as smoothly as When I have a haptic interface to work with. That even comes down to learning unfamiliar interfaces too. With a strictly defined series of controls to be actuated in a particular order, I tend to be able to permute and learn faster when I have some level of feel to work with.