[bombcar]

Remember how fast people got at texting on feature phones? It's like that, but faster. You just have to train at it; like a stenographer's keyboard.

Anyone who types in a language that uses a lot of non-keyboard characters (think accents, etc) is already used to some of it.

[sublinear]

Sounds dumb, but I miss the days of being able to reply to a text without actually pulling my phone out of my pocket. Usually it was something to the effect of a predictive "one sec" or slightly risky "yup" if I thought I already knew how they'd respond.

Thank you for confirming that we didn't type that slow back then. I felt like I was faster on physical keyboards.