I can touch type with a physical keyboard, which helps somewhat with trying to type on smartphone virtual keyboards, but I still find myself way clumsier and error-prone on them when I try to touch tap-type on them.

For the most part I’ve worked around this via swipe/gesture-typing on virtual keyboards, but even that method is error-prone. So, I’d like to try to learn to tap-type similar to how I know how to touch type, but many resources I find are for physical keyboards instead, so…Any help here?

    • rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
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      11 months ago

      Looks nice. Anyone good advice which layout to choose to type 60% German and 40% english? There are several german ones available.

      • Atemu@lemmy.ml
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        11 months ago

        I use the deutsch symbols messageease layout as it’s the only German layout with symbols on the main keyboard. There’s also deutsch multilingual thumbkey if you’re fine with {``^ etc. being on the numpad.

    • 0x4E4F@infosec.pubEnglish
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      11 months ago

      OK, what if I just care for privacy and I’m happy with the QWERTY layout?

      I’d love to ditch Gboard, but it has my native language in it, plus word underline when misspelling words. I don’t use predictive text or anything like that, just underline (I hate predictive text, it messes up my train of thought).

      Alternatives?

            • 0x4E4F@infosec.pubEnglish
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              11 months ago

              Have no idea. I just know that Swift only does word suggestion, couldn’t find an option to just underline words.

          • Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de
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            11 months ago

            You can enable spell check underline even for keyboards that don’t have it, by changing which app it uses for spell checker specifically. In my case it’s under Android settings >> System >> Languages & input >> Spell checker (under the Tools category), It might be different on your phone, in that case I guess you can just search for “Spell checker” and then u can use Gboard for spell checking for example.

            • 0x4E4F@infosec.pubEnglish
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              10 months ago

              That’s just it. It’s set to Gboard spell checker, but it doesn’t work in Jerboa.

              • Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de
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                10 months ago

                Yeah, I just tested it in Jerboa…I guess in some apps it just doesn’t work, probably depending on how the text box is implemented in the app or something, I’m not sure.
                I didn’t have trouble with it so far because it has been working for all the apps that I use.

                federation on my lemmy instance is broken, so this message will probably arrive very late

    • Worx@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Not as well as on a physical keyboard, but I can. I know how wide my phone is and I hold it in the same grip every time, so I can get it roughly correct and most mistakes are fixed by autocorrect anyway.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Nope. Not reliably any how. Touch typing relies on locating the F and J keys; which is why they have those raised bumps.

      Now what you can do, is practice a similar tactic; except you’ll have to look at the screen to localize,

  • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    I think it’s more a matter of knowing the qwerty layout and trusting that the autocorrect will help you if you mess up.

    • ALostInquirer@lemm.eeOP
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      11 months ago

      Tbh that’s probably correct, and the differences may be from me avoiding autocorrect as much as possible because of obnoxious stuff like it persistently trying to correct fav words like fuck

      • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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        11 months ago

        Over time it figures out which words you use and doesn’t clobber your vernacular as much. You also can get good at watching the suggestions and picking the right one rather than finishing typing the word