It’s faster, easier, and you only need one hand.
Now yes it’s not as simple or easy as regular typing especially with longer words. But with just a bit of practice the trade off is completely worth it. (it’s easier than regular typing once you get used to it).
Also typos are much less common as swiping to text predicts what word you are trying to type (it never types gibberish) whilst auto correct sometimes fails.
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Okay, let me try to assemble my away lineup otherwise prominent
Or, as we type here: Okay, let me try to swipe my way into these comments.
I guess that’s your preference, but for me, swiping was both slow and horribly wrong.
If I’m using two hands I’m tapping to type and it’s just as fast as swiping with one hand. If I only have one hand available(cooking or eating Cheetos, or whatever) I’m going to swipe type.
You also can’t type in abbreviations or numbers with swipe typing so that’s out for those. Sometimes swipe typing just doesn’t have the word I want and I have to retry 3 times before giving up and manually typing it in.