Texting

[Urbane]

Perhaps I'm just clumsy with my thumbs but on my iPhone I usually text with the index finger on my right hand. When I see people texting on TV they always seem to be texting with their thumbs and texting entire paragraphs within a few seconds. So I'm curious. How do you text?

[Lady tehMa]

My teenagers text with both thumbs, and they text at high speed. I'm like you Urbane - and I'm much slower than they are.

[GordonH]

Don't have to worry about it, since I don't text. Way to big of a hassle texting using my old flip phone. I use my phone to actually talk to other person, oh and never behind the steering wheel.

[Even Steven]

My fingers are too fat, so I can only use one.

[Urbane]

Don't have to worry about it, since I don't text. Way to big of a hassle texting using my old flip phone. I use my phone to actually talk to other person, oh and never behind the steering wheel.

You talk to people rather than text?? What a strange concept.

[Jflem1983]

The new phones have pretty good voice to text . Lol

[Queen K]

Urbane, there's two of us, I also have never sent a text.

[Urbane]

Urbane, there's two of us, I also have never sent a text.

That's Gordon who talks to people rather than texting. I do both but I'm just too clumsy to use my thumbs. One index finger for me and I'm not that fast. I can probably type about 50 wpm here on my keyboard but texting? I'm slow!

[dirtybiker]

Flip phone from the last Century.
Works good for talking on.

Texting: K thx ttyl haha

[Jonrox]

You're missing out on a very effective form of communication. Texting doesn't replace talking in all scenarios, but it's extremely good for a lot of things. It seems you're able to have some very lively discussions here by typing to people using a keyboard. Texting is just typing on a smaller keyboard.

[What_the]

What he said^^
. I'm using Swype on my android. One finger input and a fantastic... still proficient at both thumbs and fingers, and will use both thumbs and index. Predominantly right thumb and left index for Swype keyboard while traditional text both thumbs. Your question is loaded in a manner of speaking, am I lying on my back, on my side, predictive text and AI learnt patterns etc. Most of the time predictive works but it also learns from our spelling mistakes and suggests that mistake first argh.

There's no right way, just the the easy that's right for you.

[What_the]

No matter what, ^^^ always preview or proof read D'oh

[Even Steven]

Android does fairly good job with voice to text too. If I have to send a message, I simply say "ok google", send a message to so and so. Text sometimes can come out funny, but for the most part it's good. I basically don't have to touch the phone at all and waste time typing up the message. Works really good for short messages like "I'm 10 minutes away" or "On my way" or "Come downstairs".

Very efficient. And no typing.

[Urbane]

I keep forgetting that I can talk instead of type when texting but more often than not what appears on the screen is something outlandish. I guess I need to slow down and enunciate! Anyway, as an index finger texter I'm happy to see that I'm not alone.

[Queen K]

I'm all alone, excepting dirtybiker, in havin' never texted.