Typing test: https://monkeytype.com
I used Unexpected Keyboard
Any tips on how to improve typing speed? (without using word suggestion and autocorrect)
I’m interested in how fast people who swipe type are.
Also, do those keyboards like Thumb Key and FlickBoard have the potential “to be faster” than the standard keyboards?
I just tried it with my swipe keyboard and the website didn’t like it at all. It was double entering words randomly when I would otherwise type fine.
That said, I got 34 wpm and 95% accuracy, which is in line with me using a qwerty or Dvorak physical keyboard. I ain’t no Speedy Gonzalez.
Do you touch-type with ten fingers and never hurt yourself? That’s all that matters.
Lol, I’m just plain amazed at how fast some people can type. I am touch typing, but I guess I just got slow fingers!
I tried it with open board and had the same issue I’m never going back to non swiping but I miss swype everyday
Swype is great but every now and then I get “swypos” where I’ll think I put the right word and I put something else there and the reader has to figure it out :)
Swipe typing used to be so good for me, but now I have to correct every third word, it feels like. And it keeps correcting to just the most random ass words. Why the hell would it correct “probably” to “pusillanimous”? I’ve tried multiple modern keyboards and they’re all like this, I should download an old apk…
I really wish Microsoft would release the original swype again… Pretty sure I read somewhere that they’re the current owners (due to acquisitions).
It carried on working for years and years without updates but finally died recently. I miss gestural copy and paste for sure
touch type and no word suggestion and autocorrect.
25 wpm 83%
I was using phones with hardware keyboards for way too long and never really learned to type on screen keyboards. Now I just hate them and use desktop communicators whenever I can.
HP office keyboard from 2010 (The cadillac of keyboards), and somewhere around 90 WPM.
HP office keyboard on your android phone?
Didn’t see which group I was in lol
I made the same mistake and was initially like “50wpm? Amateur.” Once I saw it was Android, I shut my mouth with my 20wpm on my phone.
Thanks, everyone fornletting me kmkw aboit Florisbkard. Im always down to rey to nee opem source keyboard. It has perfext typing.
Edit: I honestly don’t know how anyone could praise an early beta keyboard with no autocorrect and no paricularly compelling features over OpenBoard.
Yah, the Florisboard comments always weird me out. There isn’t a chance in hell I’m using a keyboard without an autocorrect. Everyone must type perfectly with their thumbs except me.
I used to on physical keyboards. I would turn autocorrect on my LG Ally off because it was in the way more than anything else.
Onscreen keyboards exist because god is dead and satan is in charge.
I don’t type with autocorrect. Last time I checked it was around the same speed as me using swipe, ~76 wpm.
I’ve recently started growing my nails so that has made it slightly harder. Not sure how people type with nails.
Learn typing lol
What keyboard did you use to type that comment? Looks like the autocorrect doesn’t work. Or was that unexpected keyboard?
FlorisBoard, the one that so many comments are recommending. No idea why. It doesn’t even have autocorrect yet.
You only need autocorrect if the keyboard is the wrong size, and florisboard can be adapted to your needs perfectly
That’s quite the statement. My screen is only so wide, and you haven’t seen how large my thumbs are.
Im using florisboard, im getting used to not having autocorrect but i think im doing ok so far. I believe autocorrect is in beta
Thats true. Maybe thumbkey is better for you? A standard keyboard is not made to use that space efficiently.
But relying on some automated often tracking process to correct what you “actually wanted to say” is very strange.
OpenBoard is FOSS and doesn’t track you. You can disable the user dictionary if you consider that tracking.
I know how to proofread. The vast majority of the time it chooses the word I meant, and it’s trivial to fix the mistakes. Without it, I can’t get through two words without a typo, as evidenced by my original comment.
Caring that someone else requires autocorrect to be an effective communicator and calling their usage of it “very strange” is dick thing to say.
There is no autocorrect on pen&paper or hardware keyboards. If keyboards are that bad that you need it, they are bad.
Idk, it may just be because of the touchscreen.
SwiftKey wants to capitalize every first letter for some reason, so it gave me 0 wpm due to errors
Swiftkey is very very likely spying on you ;D
Unexpected keyboard also, never liked swyping to type, autosuggestion and things like that.
Also this is on cold when I just woke so my wpm is usually a but faster than this on mobile, while I have 100-110 on average on pc with regular qwerty.
70 wpm: physical keyboard on mobile (blackberry clone)
- This is hard on a touch keyboard, haha.
78wpm 92% gboard
~200wpm on a physical desktop keyboard
Pretty similar to you on mobile, gboard. I used auto correct too though. Desktop I’m not really much faster than this, maybe like 85 on a good day.
Perhaps if you used more than two fingers on desktop
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53 touch
42 swipe
I believe my pc keyboard I get 70 wpm or something
43wpm, 95% accuracy, Gboard Dvorak no swipe
Fingers are a bit cold from just walking the dog, and I’m tired from getting off a 12 hour shift, have a feeling I could do better under different circumstances.
Haven’t tested myself on a real keyboard in a long time, but once upon a time I could hit well north of 100wpm pretty consistently if I tried. When I tested myself in preparation for my current job about 5 years ago I think I usually hovered somewhere around 80-90 (911 dispatch, my agency requires at least 60 to pass the aptitude test, I wasn’t worried about passing but I was curious where I was at since I hadn’t been typing much at the time)
Florisboard with no swipe, no word predictions, no autocorrection, no nonsense.
WPM? Fast enough. It takes more time to proofread, edit and attach files than to actually type, anyway, so I don’t care about words per minute. Never have.
44 wpm.
I’ve tried a lot of different systems, and now I primarily use STT. Even with the things I have to change manually, it’s still much faster for me to use STT than to swipe.
34/84% tops swipe or normal Gboard.
All swipe inputs other than Gboard have become immensely worse after the first few months of existing, and Gboard shortly after gaining the feature. Tap typing feels unaligned on every phone these days too. The suggestions for tap and the chosen word when swiping are often the most out there words nobody ever uses too.
Where do you get those stats? I use Gboard.
The typing test in op’s post
Ooops. I must’ve glanced right over that. Ty.
