It also offers intuitive shortcuts like swiping up to capitalize a letter swiping left across the keyboard to delete a character or characters and swiping right to restore characters you’ve deleted. Finally, it monitors the word you type after rejecting an autocorrection so it can offer it as a suggestion in the future. In addition, it monitors autocorrections and predictions, making it more accurate as time goes by. But it comes with an excellent tutorial and a skill-building game, which should have you up to speed in 30 minutes or less.īehind the scenes, Typewise uses artificial intelligence to determine where your finger strikes each key and then adjusts its center point accordingly, which can reduce typos up to 53 percent all by itself. The first things you’ll notice are that Typewise eschews the familiar QWERTY key layout, and that keys are hexagons and 70 percent larger than the default keyboard.īecause the keys are rearranged for accuracy, Typewise has a steeper learning curve than other keyboards. It’s unlike any other iPhone keyboard I’ve tried. Release Notes: Get Dwight Silverman’s weekly tech newsletter in your inbox each MondayĪnd that is why I’m fascinated by Typewise, the first keyboard app designed from the ground up for a touchscreen, and it’s promise to reduce typos by up to 80 percent. But the iPhone keyboard isn’t a decent keyboard I’m lucky if I type 10 words per minute on my iPhone (and even fewer if I make a mistake, which I invariably do). I’m relatively proficient with QWERTY, typing around 60 words per minute on any decent keyboard. In other words, part of the reasoning behind the QWERTY layout was to slow down fast typists by separating often used key pairs.

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