Typing On A Smartphone

[Finnegan]

Aka using Foxestalk to settle arguments #5874749

 

Simple enough - how do you text/type on a smart phone? 

 

Assumption: you have both hands available and no surface to put the phone down on.

[Izzy]

Good poll. 
I wish I could speed type using both thumbs like my kids do.

[Jattdogg]

I've seen people use those pens for screens with the rubberized tip. 

 

I have one for the ipad but never use it.

 

I also suck at typing on smart phones hence the typos and crappy grammar etc.

 

On a computer keyboard my creativity runs wild with coherent sentences lol.

[MPH]

Hold in weak hand and type with both thumbs.

[Zear0]

Seems an apt place to mention SwiftKey. I've used it for years and much better than the standard mobile keyboards in my experience. 

[Finnegan]

4 minutes ago, Zear0 said:

Seems an apt place to mention SwiftKey. I've used it for years and much better than the standard mobile keyboards in my experience. 

 

I use SwiftKey but still barely actually use the Swipe Type feature. 

[Sly]

Both hands / both thumbs. 
 

I’m also the tool that uses the voice dictation for texting from the Apple play in the car, which gives nothing punctuation and makes up random words. 

[kingcarr21]

32 minutes ago, MPH said:

Hold in weak hand and type with both thumbs.

I would say surely this is the go to hold. I have my phone in my weak hand with my strong hand behind it in order to use both thumbs.

[RoboFox]

I use my tongue. 

[StanSP]

Flow/swipe type. So much quicker. 

[dsr-burnley]

I press 2 once for A, twice for B, three times for C.  

 

What's a smartphone?  

Edited 22 June 2022 by dsr-burnley

[Strokes]

Should have read all options before voting. 🥲

[Mike Oxlong]

I type with the hand not holding the loo paper. 

[Daggers]

Monster Munch.

 

At a push, salt and vinegar Squares or Frazzles.

[Finnegan]

2 minutes ago, Daggers said:

Monster Munch.

 

At a push, salt and vinegar Squares or Frazzles.

 

Can you take this seriously please my whole dissertation relies on this research. 

[Finnegan]

1 minute ago, pmcla26 said:

the occasional voice note

 

Mute notifications.... 

[Bellend Sebastian]

Swype was a game changer for me and weirdly I had it on a really shit phone before seemingly anybody else did so I had literally seconds of fun asking folk why it took them so long to type on their 50 quid a month devices

[leicsmac]

11 minutes ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

Swype was a game changer for me and weirdly I had it on a really shit phone before seemingly anybody else did so I had literally seconds of fun asking folk why it took them so long to type on their 50 quid a month devices

This was broadly my experience too.

[WigstonWanderer]

2 hours ago, Izzy said:

Good poll. 
I wish I could speed type using both thumbs like my kids do.

We’ll have the last laugh. They’ll pay with arthritis when they’re older. Having said that, I seem to be developing arthritis in the base of both thumbs having never used them to type. Playing havoc with my attempt to learn to play the guitar.

[Nalis]

Wish I had 

19 minutes ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

Swype was a game changer for me and weirdly I had it on a really shit phone before seemingly anybody else did so I had literally seconds of fun asking folk why it took them so long to type on their 50 quid a month devices

Wish I could get used to it

[The Quick Brown Fox]

Where is the option for hold with weak hand and type with thumb of weak hand? 

[Finnegan]

3 minutes ago, browniefox said:

Where is the option for hold with weak hand and type with thumb of weak hand? 

 

 

[The Quick Brown Fox]

17 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

 

I know but it's what I do. Always have. Even when I had a Nokia 3210, having to button bash to write anything. 

[danny.]

I am none of these - Hold phone in weak hand and type with both thumbs only

[Benguin]

None of these options. I hold phone in my weak hand and type with both thumbs.