Are You Able To Churn Out 81 Words Per Minute On Your iPhone?Have you been ridiculed by your BlackBerry-toting friends, saying that you can’t type fast enough on your iPhone’s touchscreen? Well, apparently it’s only due to lack of skill, as can be (barely) seen in the video after the jump. This iPhone user managed to churn out an amazing 81 words per minute (WPM) using the iPhone’s touchscreen keyboard, which is faster than a lot of people can type using a full sized computer keyboard. If it makes you feel any better, he’s apparently beaten the record, and hit 83 WPM now. Does it motivate you to improve your iPhone texting skills?
Video Proof of 81 Words Per Minute Accurately Typing on iPhone Touch Screen
He's not the only one. Far faster than anyone on a chiclet keyboard phone. You don't even have a clue how the iPhone typing works.
He's not the only one. Far faster than anyone on a chiclet keyboard phone. You don't even have a clue how the iPhone typing works.
You have gone off on a tangent insisting that the first I-phone could do everything better than its competitors... you may be an expert, but you have missed the whole gist of what made the first I-phone great and why with exceptional marketing it took off and made history.
One thing that I will give Apple a lot of credit for with the first I-phone is something that you do not seem to have a clue about. Microsoft threw the kitchen sink into Windows Mobile and envisioned phones as micro-sized PC. We users ended up having to do all sorts of things to “customize” our phones to get rid of features that we didn't use which were slowing down our performance.
Apple recognized that a phone was a device better suited to content consumption than content creation. Users didn't have to go to a lot of trouble to disable features they would never use that were just taking up space and using system resources. This not only improved performance, it cut down on user frustration. This is one of the reasons users liked the first I-phone. That is what Apple did... the first I-phone may have been a glorified feature phone, but people loved it.
According to you... we are almost all using copies of Apple's multi-touch input devices on our phones, tablets, and even laptops. Isn't that why Apple has sued everyone and their brother? If that is the case then most of us are very familiar with how “iphone typing” works. And a lot of us do use touch screen “typing” when we are out and about for posting here on Free Republic.
I do not know of anyone who is capable of typing on their touch screens at 81 words per minute. The video you provided is quite amazing. I do know lots of people such as myself who can type reasonably well on a laptop, who end up with all sorts of weird typos almost every time they enter posts from screens of their phones or tablets. And these posts were not entered at anywhere near 80 words per minute despite years of use. Text entered on multi-touch screen devices is kind of a joke. If you want to claim this travesty as one of Apple's revolutionary ideas... go for it. I was able to enter text much faster and more accurately on the keyboards built into my PPC-6700 and later on my HTC Touch Pro II, than I ever have been on my more recent phones and tablets. I will go ahead and give Apple their share of the credit for this step backwards.