iPhone 4 Unoffcially Beats World Texting Speed Record

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

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.

That's what we're testing. Software keyboard. It's not a matter of being able to hit the buttons. You could do the same on Android too. It's all about how good the multitouch algorithm is, the auto correction algorithm, and the prediction code. That separates the keyboards. Theoretically it should be easier to type on a 4.3" screen no? As small as the 3.5" screen is, the layout of the iPhone keyboard combined with its optimizations makes it so damn good.

And this why I keep slamming Android on this for. Is it THAT hard to make a good keyboard with the OS? IF you read Anand's first iPhone review and a lot of reviews, people were surprised. The keyboard wasn't the easiest to use and to get 100% accurate key presses, but because it can see why you would press yhe instead of the because the keys are so close together and correct you so quickly, the learning curve becomes a lot easier. Android does have autocorrection built in though. It's just not as good. While I have to sometimes select the right word, I feel like I can type blind on the iPhone a lot of times and when I look at my sentence its 100% correct. I think not only is the correction/prediction more aggressive, its a little better too.

Swype, while a great piece of software itself is almost Android's crutch right now. It's what people go "well I can type fast using this." Well that wouldn't be a problem if your standard keyboard kicked ass to begin with right? I don't mind seeing Swype be a preferred way, but I feel like why its so heavily emphasized is that Android's keyboard isn't good enough to begin with, which is why everyone ends up doing so much better on Swype. Perhaps the 2.2 Multitouch Keyboard changes everything? It's better no doubt, but how much better....?

 

[dguy6789]

I'd say the current Droid X/2 multi-touch keyboard has reached parity with typing quality of the iPhone. I can very comfortably type very fast in portrait on it and prefer it to Swype as well.