It doesn’t help that these symbols aren’t even aligned with the numerals they normally adhere to. Characters that are extremely common in both casual and formal writing-including the forward slash, colon, and parenthesis-are buried and difficult to find, and the layout changes based on which app you’re using. Numerical keys are subjugated to a secondary keyboard, along with almost every form of punctuation aside from the period, comma, question mark, and exclamation point. Limited character set on the on-screen keyboard-At first glance, the iPad’s on-screen keyboard looks rather full-featured, but once you begin typing a document you start to notice some gaping holes.There are a number of reasons for this, including: While typing on the smaller iPad keyboard wasn’t as fast as typing on a full-size one, it still beat tap-typing on the screen by a huge margin. Using an external (albeit pint-sized) keyboard, I hit 64 words per minute with zero errors. Using the iPad’s on-screen keyboard, I was able to reach all of 37 words per minute-half my normal typing rate on a full-size physical keyboard-with a (very high) 4-percent error rate.
From add-on keyboards to alternative on-screen keypads and general screen-typing tips, here’s a host of ways to speed up data entry on your iPad or Android tablet.Īt the risk of pointing out the obvious, most users will get much faster performance by typing on a physical keyboard. But that doesn’t mean you have to boot up your laptop every time you need to type a lengthy document. Despite their popularity, tablets get knocked on productivity-largely because entering data on them is slow and cumbersome.
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