SAMSUNG KEYBOARD PREDICTIVE TEXT SUCKS MANUAL
While it's certainly possible that kids growing up today are having their hand muscles develop differently than those of us who grew up with full computer keyboards (and still differently than those who used manual typewriters, and still different than those who lived before keyboards were a thing), it's far from a given that touch screen data entry is truly superior.
Yes, it's possible to type pretty quickly - especially with autocorrect - but using only two fingers gets tiring after a while I'm sure that if a 1,500 word test were given, the dropoff for text entry on a desktop keyboard would not be nearly as pronounced as the entry on a phone. I am certain that the results would be rather different if long form text entry were a part of the test. The big thing for me is that it was all single sentences. I got 86wpm and a 0.56% error rate using my laptop keyboard. Teenagers tapped out sentences at an average of about 40wpm, while those in their 40s and 50s managed only 29wpm and 26wpm. People who could remember when mobile phones were only good for phone calls were considerably slower than younger users, the study suggested. While the study involved participants from around the world, the majority were women in their 20s and about half were Americans. One volunteer thumbed out sentences on their mobile phone at a blur-inducing 85wpm, far exceeding the 52wpm that people typically reach on a standard keyboard. From the report: People who tapped out messages with a single finger managed on average only 29 words per minute (wpm), but those who mastered the two-thumb technique hit a blistering 38wpm, only 25% slower than an average typer on a full-sized Qwerty keyboard. "Researchers made the discovery during a study of typing skills in which more than 37,000 volunteers from 160 countries took a speed and accuracy test on their mobile phones," reports The Guardian. People can now type nearly as fast on a screen as they can on a keyboard.
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