I’ve been using Fleksy for about five days now. As a totally blind iPhone user this app has some promise and some major flaws. The first issue is the fact that the app takes at least 30 seconds to load on my iPhone 4 if you haven’t used it in a while. I’ll deal with the crappy typing experience using the iPhone onscreen keyboard instead of waiting 30 seconds if I’m just sending a quick text. The second issue is the inefficiency of entering custom words. If a word isn’t in Fleksy’s dictionary it’s much faster to type the word using the normal keyboard instead of with Fleksy. This makes writing technical emails or messages with lots of nonstandard words quite difficult. Since you can add words to a custom dictionary in Fleksy though I would expect this to get better with time.
Actually, touch typing on Fleksy is faster than on the standard keyboard. We reduced the lag time required to input letters from .5 seconds to .35. Plus, you only need to input those terms once.
I used incorrect terminology. With the on screen keyboard I am able to drag a finger around until I hear the letter I want announced, then with another finger tap the top half of the screen to enter that letter. It is much more efficient then touch typing with either Fleksy or touch typing with the standard keyboard.
Was responding to the second issue: "The second issue is the inefficiency of entering custom words". On that front Fleksy is the same or faster than the standard iOS keyboard.
I think he's suggesting that for "custom words" flesky autocorrects to the wrong words, whereas the standard keyboard doesn't - thus leading to longer input times under flesky ... at least until it learns those words.
