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Re:Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry? by hn_throwaway_99 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @02:20AM (#28520963)
Do you use Swiftkey-like typing on your keyboard? On my Android phone I find I can type so fast with it, and I barely have to look at the keyboard.
Re:Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry? by alpaca128 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @02:36AM (#28521103)
Swiftkey seems nice until you're not an english native speaker, which means you automatically write in 2 languages (native and at least some english). Now good luck having the keyboard guess which dictionary to use for every single word, which can even lead to mistakes if both suggest the same thing (capitalization). I care about not having a wrong word in the middle of every other sentence.

And even that doesn't change the simple fact that typing on it is cumbersome. Swiftkey is a little better on average, but still not even close to an actual keyboard.

Re:Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry? by piaste on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @05:04AM (#28522069)
I have GBoard in three languages, it guesses the language from the first few words and then 'sticks' to it for the rest of the message.

Occasionally it guesses the wrong language if the first word or two are ambiguous, but by manually typing out a word in the right language it quickly adjusts itself.

Or if some languages are only used occasionally, you can just put them on a dedicated keyboard and switch with a long press of the spacebar.

Re:Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry? by RicoElectrico on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @05:25AM (#28522204)
The greatest flaw of GBoard is that it doesn't treat space as just another character that could be mistyped, but as a delimiter that's always assumed to be in the right place. This makes the error rate ridiculous.
Re:Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry? by piaste on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @09:09AM (#28524196)
I always swipe with very few exceptions, so spaces aren't an issue.
Re:Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry? by qsi on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @02:42AM (#28521145)
Actually SwiftKey in multiple languages helps me write in the ones I am less fluent in, due to its autocorrect. I agree it can be annoying too... you have to be careful with activating languages, and I switch off the languages I am unlikely to use in the near future.

Still miss my BB though.

Edited to add: unlike other commenters here, I never use the glide feature in Swiftkey! I just use it as a better keyboard...

Re:Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry? by ant6n on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @04:07AM (#28521707)
And the worst is if you write an English sentence with five common words, but the the AI is convinced the fifth one is actually a long and complicated German word. Our brave new world of shit AI keeps making me think about this goomics comic:

https://goomics.net/278/

Re:Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry? by albru123 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @05:25AM (#28522205)
I used Swiftkey for a few years and thought it couldn't get better... until I found Fleksy.

The autocompletion is just superb and nowhere near anything I tried before. It's made for typing without looking or worrying about hitting the right keys, so if you're not really comfortable with Swiftkey-like typing, you might wanna give it a try.

Re:Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry? by oplante on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @02:46AM (#28536015)
Thanks for supporting Fleksy !
Re:Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry? by Timpy on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @08:58AM (#28524036)
I try to use this but I reliably end up getting the wrong word, which leads to some strange swypo typos. Here's a quick test, what I wanted to type on top and what came out on bottom:

"I'm a good singer"

"In a good dinner"

Re:Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry? by mushbino on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @02:26AM (#28521011)
Could you expand on what you're talking about? I'm having a hard time picturing it but I'm interested.
Re:Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry? by pjerem on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @02:33AM (#28521070)
Swiftkey like keyboards (like … Swiftkey or the iOS one) are keyboards where you write your words by swiping your finger across the letters of the keyboard, releasing your finger between each word.

Like this : https://youtu.be/D2XyP7iUErI at 00:17

Re:Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry? by TheSpiceIsLife on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @03:01AM (#28521262)
iOS has swipe to type built in.

I used Swiftkey for iOS recently, it’s no better than the built in option, and worse if you disable the spying “feature”.

Re:Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry? by windmark on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @05:33AM (#28522263)
SwiftKey is for some reason significantly worse on ios than android. I still use it because it has far better correction than the builtin keyboard and I haven't found any other that supports multiple simultaneous languages on ios.
Re:Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry? by buro9 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @02:35AM (#28521095)
https://support.google.com/gboard/answer/2811346?hl=en-GB&co...

Glide / Flow typing where you merely draw an approximate path of the shape that your typing would have followed.

It allows for very quick typing on a screen keyboard without the hammering of specific letters.

Re:Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry? by dmitriid on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @05:10AM (#28522108)
And you have to double-check what you've written because it often guesses incorrectly
Re:Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry? by lgvld on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @02:35AM (#28521090)
Check for Swiftkey Keyboard app ;-)
Re:Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry? by konfusinomicon on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @08:22AM (#28523622)
any tips on how you learned it. I've never been able to get it right