[charcircuit]

What do you mean how you never write? You can just write what for want to say instead of saying it out loud. It is not a special skill, it's no different than how you write a message, just that you don't hit backspace to go back and correct things.

[estearum]

Correct, it's no different from how you normally write, except for the ways in which it is. We agree.

[Dylan16807]

When you're making a big deal out of it being "much harder" because it's "how you never write" and they're saying that's just "not hitting backspace"? No, you don't agree.

[estearum]

How frequently do you write in a stream of consciousness and not hit backspace?

Maybe give a ballpark estimate of characters typed per week in this manner versus characters typed where you are doing some combination of: 1) thinking about what you're writing before you write it, 2) punctuating and formatting correctly, or 3) correcting your writing output?

Ridiculous proposition. And I type correctly at 110+ wpm.

[Dylan16807]

How often I do it doesn't matter because it's such a trivial thing to switch. If you're gonna "try it for a few weeks" the part of you that has to learn the typing-specific parts of that method is about 1% of the difficulty.

It's really easy to ignore typos. And the way you have to approach thinking and correcting is the same whether you're typing or voicing.

If you can't just type the way you would just talk, and you find it notably hard, it's you that's being ridiculous.

[estearum]

But it's literally not. You already correct yourself and revise your speech in an append-only rolling edit. You do it all day every day for decades.

Versus never writing in this way.

Have you tried the voice-based prompting, as I'm describing?

[Dylan16807]

"never" schmever. I never ramble unrestrained either. Deciding not to edit at all is a skill either way. If you just want the equivalent of voice in a normal way, you remove backspace and that's it.

> Have you tried the voice-based prompting, as I'm describing?

I've never prompted a thing. I can just see your distinction is nonsense. If you think it's hard you're doing it wrong.

And wow I did that post without revising a thing. Wow.