“I can type fairly quickly on my iPhone, at least in landscape mode — I average about 30 – 35 words per minute compared to around 77 WPM on a standard keyboard — but the guy in the video [below] has gone to plaid with his typing speed,” Chris Rawson reports for TUAW. “Using an app called iTextSpeed, this anonymous texting speed demon reaches an incredible 56 words per minute on his iPhone in portrait mode.”
Full article here.
More info about iTextSpeed (US$0.99) via Apple’s iTunes App Store here.
MacDailyNews Take: “I said, that is the most expensive phone in the world and it doesn’t appeal to business customers because it doesn’t have a keyboard which makes it not a very good email machine… I like our strategy, I like it a lot.” – Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer commenting on the introduction of Apple’s iPhone:
Direct link to video via Vimeo here.
[Attribution: Cult of Mac. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “James W.” for the heads up.]
He typed faster than the video could play.
And there are Youtube video of 75 wpm on Blackberry. What’s your point, exactly?
I’m about as fast. Except on the MDN app… you need to leave more space for me to see what I’m typing, or something. That area needs work.
There is a teenager who lives in this house that can put that guy to shame. I’ve told her I want to video her typing but she doesn’t want the fame. Seriously, her thumbs are a blur.
I can typically type at around 60wpm on my iPhone. that’s what you get when you already type 120+wpm on a standard keyboard and you got the iPhone the day it was released and do heavy email/notes/texting on it. I really don’t think I could ever type that fast on a phone with a physical keyboard.
@ Ottawa Mark
His point was that typing on an iPhone is not slow and certainly not too slow for business. ( Hence the Ballmer quote ).
May Steve Ballmer remain Microsoft CEO for as long as it takes!
I’m impressed.
R2 won’t be since he can’t play Pandora in the background while he does his typing speed test.
@ PXT,
I get that….but because one person can go reasonably fast doesn’t prove much…That said, I don’t mind the keyboard (or lack thereof)
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I can type faster than that on my iPod
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i love the feedback of the touchkeyboard – it type VERY fast – faster than i can on a desktop
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My thumbs have visible muscles now.
Type?!?!? I keep hearing that the iPhone doesn’t have a keyboard…
A bit ironic that I cant view the video on my iPod Touch…
Ottawa Mark
“but because one person can go reasonably fast doesn’t prove much”
The Guy who did 75wpm on the blackberry is a very very specialized case, he is deaf and used the keyboard to do all of his cell comunication.
What it means is this, typing speed is not a problem on an iPhone, typing speed is one of the major criticisms of the iPhone. What most people do is try one of the knock off iPhones (the moto droid is the iPhone knock off of the month) and find that text entry on the onscreen keyboard is slow and error prone (as compared to say a blackberry) and assume all onscreen keyboards are alike, they are not.
There is almost no downside to apple’s well engineered onscreen keyboard (this is due to both software and hardware) and there is considerable upside, in that you can cover the front of the phone with the display AND the phone can be used in either orientation.
@Ottawa Mark
… what Uncle Fester said.
Is it sad that I just spent a buck on this app… And hit 60 wpm… I did make one mistake though.
…I swear girls talk to me. 😀
oh, i saw this on the iPhone app originally, couldn’t watch the video… i guess he did make a mistake as well… stay posted as i attempt to take a video.
Once you get used to it, typing on the iPhone keyboard is a breeze. I’ve typed fairly long comments to this board on my iPod touch and was surprised how simple it was.
——RM
Boo! Adobe Flash!
What are you thinking posting a flash video in an iPhone story?! /(
“I said, that is the most expensive phone in the world”
and still cant se the video on my iphone. Wtf
Why does his iphone say “no service” at the top? I’ve never seen this before?
Why does his iphone say “no service” at the top? I’ve never seen this before?
@AT&T;Rep
I don’t know about North America, but in the UK and Europe that means your phone cannot receive any identification or data signals from a phone mast. That’s quite a common scenario in many areas or in some of our ridiculously heavy-duty buildings.
Note on previous reply post: In case you’re a structural engineer and disagree with my use of the term “ridiculously heavy-duty”, please excuse me, but I have known cases where a crane is not allowed to sit on some dirt wasteland unless it is first covered with three layers of concrete layed over a steel grid, which is not only physically wrong but also is a waste of time. And now all our buildings in the UK need to be able to withstand virtually any conceivable event, they also are built to daft specs. Hence the lack of signal within the concrete mountains.
Dang, I’m not that fast on a real keyboard…that’s impressive.