While this is slower than touch-typing, it is much faster than tapping out words with a stylus.

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Touch-typing on the devices is tricky, even with an optional keyboard.

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If you are used to touch-typing on a full-sized keyboard, you'll find it cramped, but it is roomy enough for a generation weaned on text-messaging via cell phone.

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He also taught us the Zen of touch-screen auto-correction typing, something which admittedly some of us do better than others.

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Except software-based touch typing solutions haven't really extended beyond the cramped confines of mobile phones and tablets.

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You may be familiar with Syntellia's Fleksy -- its predictive touch typing solution has already been available to iOS users since last July.

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Certainly, for one-finger hunt-n-peck typists, a virtual keyboard is probably little worse but for those of us who long ago took the trouble to learn how to type properly (I got my first typewriter at 13 and taught myself touch typing and can now type 60-80 wpm), trying to use a virtual keboard is like trying to run the 100 yard dash with your ankles tied together.

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