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Re: Text input

"Brian Kuriyama" <> writes:

> belief that portable computing requires a much faster rate of input
> than a standard cell phone keypad.

You should see how people text here in the Philippines. I haven't done
strict measurements, but a conservative estimate would be 10 seconds
for "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" with dictionary,
which comes out to around 50 wpm, which is halfway decent. ;) Of
course, that's one-handed T9. A lot of people use two-handed T9, which
shaves a couple of seconds off the total time. Some people prefer
multipress - more time, but less attention.

That plus abbreviations...

Yes, we're crazy.
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interests: emacs, gnu/linux, wearables, teaching compsci
http://sacha.free.net.ph/

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