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Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills (www.techspot.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Swype typing can get pretty fast tbh. But that greatly depends upon the software.
Despite the hate it got, Windows Phone's default keyboard had a far superior swype experience as compared to Android and iOS. Probably because they didn't try to inculcate all user words into their dictionary and used the sentence structure as a reference to rank the predicted words.

Had this one been OSS, it would have been a great service. But now it has been scrapped along with the rest of Windows Phone. One of the reasons why I hate to think of what would happen to any high effort thing I make in a company.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Microsoft actually ported their keyboard to android, called "Microsoft SwiftKey" or similar. It's a great keyboard, but apparently now has copilot ಠ_ಠ