I can touch type with a physical keyboard, which helps somewhat with trying to type on smartphone virtual keyboards, but I still find myself way clumsier and error-prone on them when I try to touch tap-type on them.

For the most part I’ve worked around this via swipe/gesture-typing on virtual keyboards, but even that method is error-prone. So, I’d like to try to learn to tap-type similar to how I know how to touch type, but many resources I find are for physical keyboards instead, so…Any help here?

  • driving_crooner
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    11 months ago

    Can you even touch type on a screen without the feedback of physical keyboards?

    • Worx@lemmynsfw.com
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      11 months ago

      Not as well as on a physical keyboard, but I can. I know how wide my phone is and I hold it in the same grip every time, so I can get it roughly correct and most mistakes are fixed by autocorrect anyway.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Nope. Not reliably any how. Touch typing relies on locating the F and J keys; which is why they have those raised bumps.

      Now what you can do, is practice a similar tactic; except you’ll have to look at the screen to localize,

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      11 months ago

      From what I’ve seen of some folks, it at least seems like it, but maybe I’m mistaken and it’s more experience with tap-typing.