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Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills (www.techspot.com)
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[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Sounds like predictive T9 but slower

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No it’s actually way faster. You can swipe whole words in less than a second. It’s like writing with pen and paper but each letter is actually a whole word.

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago

Agreed, it's pretty great. And while the computer sometimes misunderstands what you swipe, it will show you potential alternatives you can tap on. Like in this screenshot: example of swipe keyboard showing alternative words

[–] xpinchx@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

T9 was supreme.