Boy that's a lot of work, smile.
On 2009-12-08, at 9:11 AM, Mark Gilland wrote:

> You are Jes.  You need to really learn the jestures.  I had the same problem 
> at first.  it's gonna be a beast to type any way you look at it, but, don't 
> just! flick.  that is part of your problem right there.  Remember:  you 
> don't have! to flick.  mix flicking with sliding your finger around the 
> screen.
> 
> Let me give you an example of how you could have sped up the word hello.
> 
> You after a while learn where things on the screen are.  You know thus, that 
> the shift key's near the bottom left, not the total bottom left, but near 
> the bottom left.  You put your finter down there and here a bwoop? bwoop? 
> so you move it slightly up.  you hear x.  ok, well, I know that the shift 
> key is two keys to the left of that, so
> 
> one finger flick left:  Z.
> 
> One finger flick left:  Shift.
> 
> Double tap.
> 
> Then I move my finger to the right and a bit up.  I hear d.  I slide my 
> finger to the right a bit.  I hear j.  Oops?  leetle? too far.  flick left 
> one time, one finger.  h.  perfect!  double tap.
> 
> now go up and to the left a bit.  e.  aa, perfect, we landed right onnit. 
> double tap.
> 
> Now move down and to the right.  j.  oops, ok, slide my fintger a bit to the 
> right without picking it up off the screen.  k, l.  there ya go.  double 
> tap.  then double tap again for a second l.
> 
> move on the keyboard near the top and you hear, y.
> 
> well we got a ways to go so let's slide to make it quicker.
> u, i, wo wo slow down, we're nearly there.  flick once finger right once? 
> o.
> 
> perfect.
> 
> double tap.
> 
> There you go.
> 
> Done!  You just typed hello.
> 
> I'm gonna say compared to a qwerty it can take getting used to.  I've had my 
> IPod Touch sense last Saturday, which escentially is an IPhone minus the 
> phone and camera, and I only now! am just barely starting to get the hang of 
> typing.  It's gonna take time.  One Apple Store visit is not! gonna do the 
> trick, putting it bluntly.
> 
> Don't give up, man, it's gonna take time, but it will come, believe me.  I'm 
> kind of at the point now where it's called I can type fine, but it's like 
> arg!  I hate this! This is such a pain in the behaunkis.
> 
> Chris. 
> 
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