iOS keyboard promise 100 words per minute

[frauenfelder]

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[mr_raccoon]

…and 67 words typed within a minute with that thing will be accurate.

[bryan]

As a fanatical Swype user, I think I know what I’ll be trying out this evening.

I hope it supports actual punctuation; having to settle for inches and foot marks are my biggest complaint about Swype on iOS.

[HMSGoose]

yeah, we could either create insane intelligent interfaces, OR make ourselves better typers

[Boundegar]

“Once you learn how to use it, it really is quite good.”

So this is finally going to make all our Dvorak keyboards obsolete?

[lolipop_jones]

I’d pay $49.99 to have Graffiti from Palm OS on my iOS device. No shit.

[Unxmaal]

The learning curve is more akin to a vertical cliff. The UI is so poorly-designed that I still don’t know how I exited the training guide – and I was desperate to exit, because I’d been going through it for fifteen minutes. Sadly the training manual is required, because the interface is relatively non-intuitive.

Biggest overall issue is it doesn’t auto-suggest corrections for misspelled common words. For example, ‘keyboard’, as in "Sorad im tyringo t thes new keybrod

its suskc"

It’s not stupid. It’s ADVANCED!

[abides]

I don’t think I’d go that high, but I agree: Graffiti would be awesome. I had it on my Newton. No egg freckles for me.

[woid]

This post intrigued me. The video persuaded me, I bought it.

I shoulda read the comments first.

The slidy-tappy interface is insane. If you hesitate, or go slightly off a direct route to the next key, the result is a typo clusterfuck.

Also, it didn’t want to start up. This turned out to be a good thing, because it gave me a legit reason to get a refund from the App Store.

(Yes, they DO give refunds, but they don’t make it easy. There’s no way I know of to do this through the App Store app, or via Settings. You have to enter an ol’-fashioned URL, thus:
http://reportaproblem.apple.com/
Then you sign in, find the app, “Report a Problem,” and tell the truth, or at least the truthiness. You will be rewarded with your money back, and you can then delete the app, as I just did.)