Predictive text ....

[Sue]

Usually I curse predictive text, which comes up with ridiculous options, but over the last few weeks it seems to be psychic, oo-er.

Just typed in "Will" as the first word of a text, then "d" - and it came up with "discuss", which was what I wanted to type.

How the f*** did it know that??

Surely not coincidence? And it can't be from my old texts, as I don't usually say "will discuss" in texts :))

[El Pibe]

Depends on the keyboard you're using but some of them function off an internal datastore of your usage, effectively learning common phrases and word pairings.

Swiftkey is excellent at this, you can even point it at gmail, facebook and twitter to learn more.

ACtually it's excellent full stop, being nicely configurable, supports multiple language predictions without having to switch language, and now has a swype style functionality that works much better in my experience.

[Sue]

Thanks - haven't tried swype yet ....

[El Pibe]

stick with swiftkey (ony for android)

http://www.swiftkey.net/en/

[Sue]

Ta - will check it out!

[Mick Mac]

Get a room....

With a keyboard, preferably.

[El Pibe]

THere are a couple of barking mad alternatives to qwerty keyboards

http://www.8pen.com/

8pen, I gave it a go and found it unusable, but some people apparently swear by it.

and

http://www.exideas.com/ME/index.php

messageEase which apparently beat the officaial world record for Words Per Minute entry.

[El Pibe]

I've just given messageEase a quick go (it's free) and I have to say it's not bad, I managed to tap out the quick brown fox pretty quickly on my first go.

Though I don't think I can be bothered to get it all into the cerebellum, I can see it being very efficient once you have.

[Sue]

El Pibe Wrote:

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> http://www.8pen.com/

> 8pen, I gave it a go and found it unusable, but

> some people apparently swear by it.

>

xxxxxx

Or possibly swear at it?!