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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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I feel like I used to see a lot of women with super long nails struggling to use their touchscreen phones. I'm sure at least some of them have chosen slightly shorter nails to make it easier.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Ironically, I can almost type as fast on my phone (102 WPM PB) as I can on most keyboards (110 WPM PB), and that's with my weird improper method of touch typing. These scores are for the 15 second word test on MonkeyType.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But I would assume you're used to using a 'manual' keyboard whereas if you only grew up on touchscreens its probably more difficult to get familiar to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Perhaps, but I sucked at touch typing when I was younger.

[–] Carighan 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I assume that's SwiftKey/GBoard typing more than you, though? How fast are you on a computer with autocorrection turned on?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

thing is, for my dialect of German, autocorrect is less than useful, so for me, typing Bavarian on a phone keyboard is certainly the fastest at around 150 wpm, trumping english or german on any other board, probably because it exactly matches the way I speak and I've been doing it for 13 years

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

No idea; does autocorrect even exist in an inbuilt fashion on Windows? I've never really tried using anything like that.

Oh, and here's a one-off test I just did without autocorrection turned on. With a few more tries, I'm sure I could get up to 100+.