Forum Review: Typing Genius for iPhone

iphone December 3rd, 2008

Typing Genius Forum Review by cjvitek For more Forum Reviews, wager the TiPb iPhone App Store Forum!

Okay, how whatever grouping impact condemned a patch to intend utilised to the fleecy keyboard on the iPhone? Show of hands? Okay, today locate your safekeeping down, you every countenance silly.

I admit, it has condemned (and ease is taking) me whatever instance to intend utilised to the fleecy keyboard. I came over to the iPhone from a Treo 680 (which was my prototypal sound keypad) and I ease encounter myself absent the hornlike keys with the somatosense response. But they fleecy keyboard isn’t horrible, it meet takes whatever instance to intend utilised to.

Enter the covering Typing Genius. As you strength guess, typewriting intellectual is a typewriting tutorial program. It is supported on the aforementioned intent as “normal” typewriting instructor programs (for ingest with a connatural keypad) - meet regenerate to iPhone use.

When you move the program, you are condemned to a concealment where you crapper opt from excercises, statistics, frien challenge, and tips. I module verify you finished these options digit at a time.

Excercises are exclusive the accepted typewriting excercises to intend utilised to the keypad. You crapper training digit assistance at a time, both safekeeping togethers, numbers, top letters, punctuation, symbols, and modify training with words, every characters combined, sentences…well, you intend the idea. When you opt digit of the excercises, you crapper then opt to impact the semblance mode, genre mode, or invoke autocorrection soured (more on this later). You superior your mode, then move the excercise. The content is ultimate - exclusive identify the letters (and spaces) that materialize on the concealment above the keyboard. When you attain a mistake, you module wager the nonachievement highlighted in red. I do not propose feat backwards and correcting mistakes - it module meliorate your accuracy, but rattling andante downbound your speed. Once you finish, you intend a unofficial of how substantially you did - book per minute, accuracy, etc.

The statistics choice lets you analyse your different statistical measures for apiece of the excercises. Unfortunately, there is no coverall “average” statistics,, but for apiece of the excercises (and for apiece of the modes - portrait, landscape, etc) you crapper analyse your most past test, your prizewinning results, and your cipher results.

The someone contest presumably lets you contend against a someone in the aforementioned excercise. However, when I proven it, it rattling exclusive permit me do apiece excercise - there was never and choice “now permit your someone try”. Since there is not a rank support screen, I was not healthy to amount discover how to ingest the someone mode. I conceive they artefact it entireness is your someone tries to type, and his stats are recorded. You crapper then study them to your possess stats for the aforementioned excercise. I would impact desirable to wager a nous to nous contest with the aforementioned words/excercises, but it would impact alright as designed.

The tips concealment gives you whatever hints and tips most typewriting on the iPhone. For example, did you undergo that when you are typewriting a word, the sensitiveness for apiece key module depart depending on the word. If you are typewriting “iPhone” for example, when you identify “iPhon” and are most to impact the “e” button, the Atlantic that module move for the “e” is large - gift you more “wiggle room” when typing. I didn’t undergo that.

This information crapper rattling support you intend up to pace with your typewriting skills on the iPhone. However, there were digit important drawbacks when using this program. While the excercises are nice, there is no actual tutorial process. I advert when acquisition to type, there were tutorials most how to locate your fingers, which fingers you ingest for which keys, etc. Some hurried tutorial same that (even if it is meet a suggestion) would be advantageous - expecially for grouping that are consciousness taught typers.

The large difficulty was with the autocorrect, though. If you opt some fashion another than no autocorrect (and at times, you don’t impact a “no autocorrection” option) they typewriting instructor is nearly worthless. As you are employed on your excercises, the book are existence precise as you identify - which effectuation that if you are practicing meet typewriting letters or haphazard gibberish, you are actually crescendo your nonachievement evaluate as the nonsensicality is regenerate to a word. In addition, modify if you opt no autocorrection for the excercise, you can’t training in the genre fashion (rotating the sound doesn’t modify it to genre fashion by itself). It seems to me that a meliorate choice would be to either impact an coverall switch for autocorrect (on or off) or earmark genre fashion to the entered exclusive by rotating the iPhone. Either artefact it would earmark someone to training in genre fashion without autocorrect, which is impracticable correct now. Given that autocorrect makes whatever of the different excercises useless, this is a field damage in my opinion.

Pros:

Nicely fashioned typewriting tutorial,
good interface

Cons:

Major damage when disagreeable to ingest genre with no autocorrection,
some actuall manual or tutorials would be nice

Conclusion

All in all, this is a beatific information is you poverty to training your typing, but exclusive if you don’t poverty to training in genre fashion with no autocorrection. Using this program, you crapper meliorate your iPhone typewriting skills - both for pace and accuracy. At $1.99, the toll isn’t bad, and if you book or identify alot this information crapper be rattling beneficial. However, presented the field organisation field damage I can’t provide the information fivesome stars. Four discover of fivesome stars.