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?

  • SportsRulesOpinions@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 年前

    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.

    • SportsRulesOpinions@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      2 年前

      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.

    • misery mansion@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 年前

      I tried it with open board and had the same issue I’m never going back to non swiping but I miss swype everyday

      • lobut@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        2 年前

        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 :)

        • Starayo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 年前

          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…

      • philwills@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        2 年前

        I really wish Microsoft would release the original swype again… Pretty sure I read somewhere that they’re the current owners (due to acquisitions).

        • misery mansion@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 年前

          It carried on working for years and years without updates but finally died recently. I miss gestural copy and paste for sure

  • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
    7·
    2 年前

    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.

  • Nomecks@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    2 年前

    HP office keyboard from 2010 (The cadillac of keyboards), and somewhere around 90 WPM.

  • CronyAkatsuki@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyzEnglish
    5·
    2 年前

    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.

  • Shurimal@kbin.social
    51·
    2 年前

    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.

  • Fondots@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 年前

    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)

  • Shadow@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    2 年前

    SwiftKey wants to capitalize every first letter for some reason, so it gave me 0 wpm due to errors

  • CrayonRosary@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 年前

    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.

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 年前

      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.

    • bahcodad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 年前

      What keyboard did you use to type that comment? Looks like the autocorrect doesn’t work. Or was that unexpected keyboard?

      • CrayonRosary@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 年前

        FlorisBoard, the one that so many comments are recommending. No idea why. It doesn’t even have autocorrect yet.

  • Grass@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    2 年前

    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.

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    2 年前

    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.