iPhone 4 Unoffcially Beats World Texting Speed Record

[Puddle Jumper]

I love Swype. I type really fast and just like any virtual keyboard, you have to get used to it. It has a much steeper learning curve since you don't actually type on it so you feel weird and I didn't like it at first but once you get the hang of it, you don't want to go back. It's not like you guys magically could type fast on the iPhone keyboard. You had to get used to that as well.

I feel the same way about swype. At first it just seemed like a gimmick and I preferred the stock Samsung keyboard but after using it for a while I can't stand using any other on screen keyboard.

 

[AMDZen]

However, you are clearly incorrect, and showing that you don't actually read anything posted here, by lumping me into that group.

Maybe but you are wrong about me too.

I do bash Palm, BB and WinMo phones though because they are terrible and I think all of their OS's are terrible, so you are right to a certain extent. Win Mo 7 might change my view on that, that is yet to be determined. You are wrong though because I am also pro Android, and I will be the first one to ditch my iPhone if/when there is something out which I feel is better then what I have.

 

[rudeguy]

I feel the same way about swype. At first it just seemed like a gimmick and I preferred the stock Samsung keyboard but after using it for a while I can't stand using any other on screen keyboard.

I can do either. My one complaint about Swype is that in landscape mode its hard to get to the far side of the keyboard with one finger. Maybe I need to redo how I grip my phone?

 

[Deeko]

I can do either. My one complaint about Swype is that in landscape mode its hard to get to the far side of the keyboard with one finger. Maybe I need to redo how I grip my phone?

I can't do Swype in landscape either.

Maybe but you are wrong about me too.

I do bash Palm, BB and WinMo phones though because they are terrible and I think all of their OS's are terrible, so you are right to a certain extent. Win Mo 7 might change my view on that, that is yet to be determined. You are wrong though because I am also pro Android, and I will be the first one to ditch my iPhone if/when there is something out which I feel is better then what I have.

If you are pro Android you certainly don't demonstrate it with your posts. I'm not going to debate your personal feelings, though. I just go by posts like this:

Android users bring it up constantly as a benefit over the iPhone. Swipe this, multi-touch that.

 

[AMDZen]

If you are pro Android you certainly don't demonstrate it with your posts. I'm not going to debate your personal feelings, though. I just go by posts like this:

Its true. I have to spend a lot of time defending the iPhone from the haters. There are Android haters too which are purely iPhone, but they are very few in number in comparison.

 

[rudeguy]

Its true. I have to spend a lot of time defending the iPhone from the haters. There are Android haters too which are purely iPhone, but they are very few in number in comparison.

I strongly disagree.

Most Android fanboys that I know will say that the iPhone is a good phone but....

Most Apple fanboys I know will say that Android suck because....

 

[exdeath]

I don't care which is .0001 WPM faster, but I do care that I don't have to cramp or break my fingers trying to type on a tiny ass screen.

 

[cheezy321]

I don't care which is .0001 WPM faster, but I do care that I don't have to cramp or break my fingers trying to type on a tiny ass screen.

lol. You must have fat fingers. like REALLY fat fingers.

 

[Indolent]

I can do either. My one complaint about Swype is that in landscape mode its hard to get to the far side of the keyboard with one finger. Maybe I need to redo how I grip my phone?

I'd tend to agree. Swype works really well in portrait mode, though, and I hate having to turn my phone sideways to type something so it works great for me.

 

[exdeath]

lol. You must have fat fingers. like REALLY fat fingers.

Nah. I can completely palm a Droid X with ease if that gives you an idea. A big BIG enabling factor for new Droid phones like the Evo, Droid X, etc, with 4.3" screens is that a touch only interface becomes viable to people aren't 5 ft tall and who's hands don't look like a 7 year old kids'. It's nice to be able to hit keys and interface objects without hitting 5 things at once and having to back up and try again repeatedly and also having enough physical screen that your thumbs don't completely obscure the GUI elements you are trying to interact with.

 

[zerocool84]

Nah. I can completely palm a Droid X with ease if that gives you an idea. A big BIG enabling factor for new Droid phones like the Evo, Droid X, etc, with 4.3" screens is that a touch only interface becomes viable to people aren't 5 ft tall and who's hands don't look like a 7 year old kids'. It's nice to be able to hit keys and interface objects without hitting 5 things at once and having to back up and try again repeatedly and also having enough physical screen that your thumbs don't completely obscure the GUI elements you are trying to interact with.

I'm not that tall and don't have huge hands but have fat thumbs and the larger screen definitely helps in every way using the phone. I love playing around with my buddie's Evo.

 

[Kanalua]

This seems more like an argument 7th graders would have.

 

[Phobic9]

This seems more like an argument 7th graders would have.

Agreed. You can also find other enjoyable arguments in virtually any "iPhone vs Android" thread.*




*See also:

Consoles vs PC games
ATI vs nVidia

 

[AMDZen]

I strongly disagree.

Most Android fanboys that I know will say that the iPhone is a good phone but....

Most Apple fanboys I know will say that Android suck because....

I could search and provide many examples but I am not going to. The fact is, its more android users spreading misinformation then anything. So many of them simply don't know anything about the iPhone other then what the media says. Saying the iPhone cannot do this or cannot do that, when in reality there is really nothing that android does today that iPhone cannot do when jailbroken.

And of course then the droid user says "Oh but you have to void your warranty so it doesn't count" which is complete BS if you ask me. Any iPhone user I know who cares about the things you can do when JBing the iPhone do not hesitate to do it. I've been doing it since day 1 and never had an issue I couldn't resolve.

 

[Dulanic]

There are always going to be people who can type insanely fast with different types of devices. I use swype myself (on a Win Mobile phone) and I find it works great once you know all the tricks to it. And for anyone who says you can easily mistype.... I actually find it is quite kind in forgiving errors, and is even easier to correct errors (double tap the word).

I will admit I am faster with my slideout keyboard, but that is what I am used to. I am sure if I focused on using swype more, I would become faster at it. The reason I tend to use swype is due to using the phone one handed... makes it much faster than any other method I have tried if I don't have both hands on the phone (no jokes here).

 

[dguy6789]

I could search and provide many examples but I am not going to. The fact is, its more android users spreading misinformation then anything. So many of them simply don't know anything about the iPhone other then what the media says. Saying the iPhone cannot do this or cannot do that, when in reality there is really nothing that android does today that iPhone cannot do when jailbroken.

And of course then the droid user says "Oh but you have to void your warranty so it doesn't count" which is complete BS if you ask me. Any iPhone user I know who cares about the things you can do when JBing the iPhone do not hesitate to do it. I've been doing it since day 1 and never had an issue I couldn't resolve.

While there's definitely fanboys that spread misinformation that belong to both sides, it is absolutely ridiculous(and a fanboyish statement in and of itself) to claim that one does it more than the other.

 

[hanoverphist]

I try to tell people all the time a fast person on an iPhone keyboard will beat a Swype person. I've seen at least 6 videos where people typed the same text as the Samsung world record on their iPhone faster. Swype's not the fastest way to type on a virtual keyboard, it is faster for most people though. Wish one of the people I've seen break the record would get the Guinness Book people involved so the title can rightfully be where it belongs.

yes, the title should belong to the typist, not the technology. the typist is where the extra speed comes from, i dont know why people keep arguing over which phone is capable of the fastest typing. its a stupid argument, the people doing these videos are fara from the common texter, they are people that are trying to be the fastest. the average person couldnt care less about it i bet. i know i dont.

 

[JS80]

Doesn't beat my speech to text on my EVO.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Android people seem to constantly spout out about how Swyping is the fastest way to type, when it's clearly not. If somebodies looking for the fastest device to type on, for lets say e-mails. The fastest iPhone typers I've seen can type even faster than people with phones with physical keyboards. The fact there are people who can get 80WPM on a virtual keyboard's pretty mind blowing.

The problem is the stock Android keyboard sucks. A good layout was the HTC_IME keyboard but it lacked multi touch also.

Motorola finally spewed out a Multitouch keyboard they had to tout on their Droid X. The problem is the candidates and prediction is still not as great as the HTC_IME. Of course, all of this falls short of what the iPhone offers.

So yeah, this is absolutely why Swype is the fastest way to type on an ANDROID phone. I come from iPod/iPhone so I'm a typer. I will try to type as much as I can on Android, but honestly, I have so many typos its disgusting. I wish for a better keyboard that can take on the iPhone... Ugh.

Regarding the iPhone keyboard, I notice that I can be ridiculously fast. Without multitouch, you get a bunch of jumbled characters and mispresses and unregistered keystrokes. With multitouch, this is all fixed. However, the problem with the Android keyboard is that even with multitouch, Motorola needs to put in better prediction and autocorrection. It seems that Apple has put in a decent dictionary and a decent autocorrection since the iPhone 2G that it catches many common mispresses and fat finger issues that you can type without looking and autocorrection will fix 98% of your errors.

 

[cheezy321]

Doesn't beat my speech to text on my EVO.

prove it.

 

[thescreensavers]

I try to tell people all the time a fast person on an iPhone keyboard will beat a Swype person. I've seen at least 6 videos where people typed the same text as the Samsung world record on their iPhone faster. Swype's not the fastest way to type on a virtual keyboard, it is faster for most people though. Wish one of the people I've seen break the record would get the Guinness Book people involved so the title can rightfully be where it belongs.

but look how fast he was typing? Wait till someone can actually swype fast.

 

[MrX8503]

but look how fast he was typing? Wait till someone can actually swype fast.

I still honestly don't know why world records even proves anything or even matters.

 

[rudeguy]

I still honestly don't know why world records even proves anything or even matters.

it doesn't matter. It doesn't prove anything. What matter is WHAT YOU PERSONALLY LIKE AND PREFER. All the fanboyism around here on both sides of the isle is stupid.

ITS A STINKING CELL PHONE FOR GOD'S SAKE!!!!!

 

[insect9]

it doesn't matter. It doesn't prove anything. What matter is WHAT YOU PERSONALLY LIKE AND PREFER. All the fanboyism around here on both sides of the isle is stupid.

ITS A STINKING CELL PHONE FOR GOD'S SAKE!!!!!

NO IT'S NOT! IT'S A WAY OF LIIIIFFFEEEE!!!!!!

/fanboyism

 

[Looney]

I haven't looked into these 'records' or how it's done, but i do have some questions. First, are they using a program that uses the same example over and over? If so, then you obviously will get better the more you practice in that program, but that doesn't necessarily translate to your overall speed when you're using it in the real world. Second, do these typing programs turn off iOS predictive typing? Because again, the more you type the same words, the more forgiving the OS is in mistakes and corrects them for you.