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I almost never swipe type unless I am in bed with one hand. Otherwise, tap typing is what I prefer. I have sort of a weird grip but can type at about 80-90wpm on my phone with enough accuracy that autocorrect works the majority of the time. I can also type reasonably well under my desk without looking, but that would be much easier with physical buttons.

Does everyone else swipe type now?

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> I have sort of a weird grip but can type at about 80-90wpm on my phone with enough accuracy that autocorrect works the majority of the time.

I'm quite curious about your `weird grip'; 80-90 wpm on a touchscreen sounds absurdly fast.

I can get around 75-80 WPM tap-typing on my iPhone. No weird grip.

Though, to measure that I had to make my own typing test, because after trying multiple websites and native apps, I couldn’t find any tests that didn’t disable autocorrect. Accuracy without autocorrect may be interesting to measure, but in real-world typing, I intentionally sacrifice accuracy for speed and let autocorrect pick up the slack. A test of practical typing speed should take that into account.

If anyone else wants to try, here is my very barebones test:

https://a.qoid.us/typetest.html

Ah excellent, I agree most type sites are terrible for mobile. This is much appreciated

So I type with my left pointer finger and right thumb.

My left hand has the middle finger on the side edge, thumb on the bottom edge. The rest of the fingers hang.

My right hand supports the back of the phone with 3 fingers, pointer on the side edge and the thumb types.

Hope they helps describe it. My family and friends make fun of how fast and loud I type and my weird grip, but I do take pride in my speed :)

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