Curious how long that post took to swype? 
I watch my friend and she seems to swype common words or something then switches to two-thumb then back. Swip swip swip, bappity bappity bap, swip swip. Is that what you do?
I have no idea how long that took. This took 13 seconds
I mostly don’t type letters unless i fail three times to get it to swype the word i want. Then i look at what I’ve written and try to fix stuff that i notice is wrong. Like, i had to change swipe to swype. When i do type letters, i do it with my index finger, not my thumbs.
Speaking as someone who did a full time voice transcription service, speaking slowly is not as important (although it helps!) but fully enunciating, or even over-enunciating is the key. 
I’ve never understood thumb-typing. Take the biggest globbiest finger you have and poke at the tiny keys with it. Seems totally backwards, and a great way to drop your phone since you’re not really holding onto it.
For me it’s always phone in left hand, index finger of right stabbing at keyboard. I’ve fiddled with swype, but the back and forth between swyping and picking the correct word and fixing typos is too many balls to juggle.
I’m left handed, so i hold the phone on my right hand and swype with the left, and occasionally stab with the left.
The last phone that i had with a tiny physical keyboard, i did use both thumbs. But I’ve never used thumbs for a virtual keyboard.
Interesting. I typed the same sentences (on a laptop keyboard) and did it in just under 8 seconds. I am sure it would take me longer than 13 seconds on a phone regardless of method.
I gave up on swiping pretty early. Not only was it always slower, but it couldn’t figure out what word I wanted to type. I find it’s easier to type using my thumbs, which is about half the speed I can type on a real keyboard.
It just didn’t seem worth it to learn, even if it would eventually get faster. Too much headache correcting it.
I am a poor typist. I don’t type substantially faster than i can swype. I’m told that the fastest swypists beat the fastest typists, iirc.
I’m a fast swypist, but a faster typist and I greatly prefer typing. Same preference working on a computer over a phone.
I had gotten pretty efficient at typing on my phone’s keyboard but then Elon Musk bought Twitter and forced us all to go back to T9.
Wasn’t this a breaking news thread before we all got fascinated by phone UI? Maybe I should report myself since I was certainly part of the hijack. 
Yeah, me, too.
It is funny–my mid-range phone chip is rated at 80 gigaflops for the CPU and 486 gigaflops for the GPU, and today that is considered to be slow. (The Cray 1 supercomputer? 0.16 gigaflops.)
I have an iPad Pro with the M1 chip, which is rated at 2.6 Teraflops. The new M2 iPad is 3.6. The M2 pro chip hits 6.8 Tflops.
This is just about the same performance as the ASCI ‘White’ Supercomputer from 2000:
That thing weighed over 100 tons and consumed 3MW of electricity. An Ipad Pro M2 weighs 486 grams and can run for 10 hours on a 28 Wh battery.
This is me, too. But I’ve been a touch typist for – dang— nearly 60 years (since junior high).
I had typing in HS (probably around 86), but became a super fast, efficient tough typist when I started playing MUD video games in our university terminal rooms. So much typing!
Moderating:
Let’s please drop the hijack about typing styles/methods in this thread, as it is a breaking news only thread. Thanks.
I signed up just to annoy Musk.