You can play with this method and see if it works for you and if not, well just go back to your way, smile. It's all about what works best for you, that method is just too time consuming for me. I do split tapping and no flicking what so ever. It already works that you know where things are on the screen.
So using your same example of hello, the shift by the way is already highlighted for the first letter of a new sentence so we'll skip that one. You know where the h approximately is on the screen so put your finger there. If you land on the j for example instead of flicking just slide your finger left a bit and there it is. Instead of double tapping because you run the risk of accidently moving your finger a tiny bit and putting in another letter, just leave that finger on the h and tap with another. For the e, you can either slide your finger up and then left or left and then up. When you find the e with one finger again, leave that finger there and tap with another. For the l, you know it's on the right side of the screen close to the bottum, just put your finger there and if you land on delete then slide on tiny space up. Once you're on the l tap with another finger and then tap again to put in the second l. The o is slightly up and to the left, just slide along and there you are. The problem I had with the double tap method is if I was in a hurry or something I would accidently move my finger just a tiny bit and put in the wrong letter, then I'd have to delete and try again. Good luck. Hope that made some sense.On 2009-12-08, at 9:39 AM, Mark Gilland wrote: > well? ok, I'm new at this, do you know a better way? > > maybe that is what is slowing me down. > > Give me a hand. > > Chris. > > > ? ????? t?? Te?? 畫 sa?. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "May McDonald" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 12:28 PM > Subject: Re: Is the navigation of items on the IPhone as efficient and > speedy as everyone says? > > >> 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! 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