# Tapatalk - what does it get me?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tapatalk-what-does-it-get-me/582017>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 15, 2011, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tapatalk-what-does-it-get-me/582017 "2011-05-15T19:17:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tapatalk-what-does-it-get-me/582017/41 "2011-05-25T10:40:54Z")

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> I THINK that part of the allure of Swype is that you’re supposed to be able to swype _close_ to the intended letters, that even if you’re off by a few it’ll still guess correctly. At least that’s what I thought when I used it.
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> In the end I found I found Smart Keyboard Pro’s autocorrect/autosuggest to be faster since it brings up long suggested words after you just input a few letters without having you go through the entire motion for the whole word. YMMV, of course.

Along these lines, Swiftkey is very good; it’s another of the predictive ones, and it works very well. According to its stats, it’s saved me 10743 keystrokes, making me 42% more efficient.

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**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tapatalk-what-does-it-get-me/582017/42 "2011-05-25T17:18:22Z")

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> [@Reply](#):
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> I THINK that part of the allure of Swype is that you’re supposed to be able to swype _close_ to the intended letters, that even if you’re off by a few it’ll still guess correctly. At least that’s what I thought when I used it.
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> In the end I found I found Smart Keyboard Pro’s autocorrect/autosuggest to be faster since it brings up long suggested words after you just input a few letters without having you go through the entire motion for the whole word. YMMV, of course.

The thing I like about Swype is not only does it make suggestions if your swipe is a little off, and that it is very fast, but that it is also unnecessary to types spaces between words; Swype inserts them itself. Love it!  
Sent from my DROIDX using Tapatalk

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