What keyboard are you using and what is your WPM? (discuss.tchncs.de)

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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?

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

touch type and no word suggestion and autocorrect.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Do you touch-type with ten fingers and never hurt yourself? That's all that matters.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

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!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

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 :)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

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...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

HP office keyboard on your android phone?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Didn't see which group I was in lol

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] captain_aggravated 3 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

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.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Swiftkey is very very likely spying on you ;D

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

53 touch

42 swipe

I believe my pc keyboard I get 70 wpm or something

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

70 wpm: physical keyboard on mobile (blackberry clone)

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

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)

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

78wpm 92% gboard

~200wpm on a physical desktop keyboard

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

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.

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[-] AlecSadler 4 points 4 months ago

This is hard on a touch keyboard, haha.

[-] aBundleOfFerrets 2 points 4 months ago

58 with stock apple keyboard (don’t know why I decided to post this comment in an android community lol)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

53 wpm, 95% accuracy, using gboard

[-] Grass 2 points 4 months ago

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.

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[-] azulavoir 2 points 4 months ago

76 wpm at 85% accuracy with MS SwiftKey

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

50WPM, 100% accuracy with AnySoftKeyboard and no aids. This was the third try.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

67wpm 97% accuracy with chrooma keyboard and swipe. Switched to gboard and only got 54/87.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

66 wpm, 94% accuracy with standard google keyboard.

To improve speed I'd suggest simply practicing. You'll get better over time!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

AnySoftKeyboard and got 54wpm 95% accuracy. Better than I thought I would get

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

lemme try rq

edit: gboard (firewalled ofc) got me this, i am guessing this is for sure faster that typing on my laptop, and i now am paying attention to my typing speed.

will be updated if i change keyboard's probably

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I used messageease for a month or so but was unable to improve :/ https://www.exideas.com/ME/index.php

[-] Varyk 2 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

wpm 52 acc 97% with gboard

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I was faster and more accurate in typing manually (~ 70 wpm) than with swipe typing with Gboard (~ 50 wpm) lol. Maybe I'm just more used to using FlorisBoard daily tho

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

63 wpm, 91% acc

Florisboard, I love that keyboard. I have to say I cant perfectly read mistakes on Monkeytype so some more of them

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