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Re:Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone be... by devilbunny on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @10:48PM (#33256924)
Been a while since I've used Android, and it's no longer available (you'll have to find an old .apk, maybe it would still work), but Swype was hands-down the best phone keyboard I've ever used. It had an editing keyboard layout that allowed single-character movement of the cursor, easily selected by Swyping from the Swype key to something else (space bar, maybe?). Swype-X, Swype-C, Swype-V for cut, copy, and paste, and they actually worked well.

Apple's knockoff is nowhere near as good, and routinely "forgets" custom words including curses. My text language is often not PG-rated, let alone G-rated.

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Re:Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone be... by kyriakos on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @11:29PM (#33257250)
I'm super happy with Microsoft SwiftKey. With friends and family we type in a dialect which is not an official language but after using it for a bit it picked up most of the spelling I use and autocompletes sentences with good accuracy.
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Re:Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone be... by Diapason on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @07:15PM (#33269016)
Came here to say this exact same thing.

I still remember - November 2013, I was interviewing for some jobs in Boulder CO, and was invited to dinner by a tech entrepreneur. I showed him how good Swype was. Back then I had a tiny-weenie Xperia (S, or SL or U??). I remember clearly how blown away he was. And I remember clearly how enjoyable it was to actually be able to swype one handed. I did not even ever had a case protector for this phone, and managed to never break it because I would not drop it!

I can't remember which of the phones I had after that with which I was so sad when i realized Swype had disappeared when I could not reinstall it :(I had tried Swift key, the Stock google, and I think another one, but none never came close to Swype learning algorithm :(

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