If they were such a hidrance people could always still buy the keyboard models they abandonded en masse starting 2007.
You mean the ones I keep on seeing on trains and planes?
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/typingclass/id588121234?mt=8
I really freaking hate typing on an iPhone 4s. I frequently hit space instead of a or backspace instead of l or m.
The keyboard isn't always the same and so sometimes I hit . instead of space.
The cheap bluetooth keyboard I bought makes typing very much nicer. That bluetooth keyboard is almost a toy, which is some indication of how terrible iPhone typing experience is.
(On a tangent: a version of that game using the hundred most commonly misspelled English words, or a simple / plain English vocabulary list would be useful. Especially if they software could speak the words at you.)
Sorry, but how does that counter what I said? Parent said that typing on a touchscreen "It is practically impossible".
If you have 157 WPM on iPhone 4s then it's a counter-proof that as I said, it's anything but "practically impossible".
That you "hate it" is another thing, which I can understand. It's not the best experience in the world and obviously sub par to a full keyboard. But it's clearly not "impossible".
And your 157 WPM are for 4s as you said.
iPhone 6, with the larger target area and auto-prediction, makes it even easier, at least for me. And if the new model brings some tactile (force) feedback, that would be even better.
Still, that means I would be even more likely to pay for a spelling / typing game that had more accurate speed tests. I'm not particularly keen on the weapons theme, so some cutesy forrest animals throwing snowballs might work.