Remember T9 typiing?

[Beany]

How fast can you do it?

https://sheets.works/t9

I'm disqualifying myself because there's no "quickly scanning a message while no-ones looking, then replying from my pocket by feel so it doesn't look like I'm ignoring the rest of the meeting I'm in" option, which was my preferred method.

I did my best SMS flirting from my pocket.

....wait, let me rephrase that....

[Matty]

Never knew it was called T9 typing. It's something is rather forget, to be honest.....although the real ones still typed out full sentences. As is correct.

[DeskJockey]

Those were the days...

[GG.]

Every time I have to update my password on my Cisco desk phone I need to do this - brings back good memories of Nokia 5110s and playing snake.

[Jobbo]

I quite liked T9 predictive text but found the two letters per key on some BlackBerry variants the best for accurate predictions. Then I was given a full keyboard Blackberry which I never liked as much; the keys were so tiny.

[GG.]

BlackBerry bold FTW - that had raised bumps on the keys which I found helped a lot. In fact it took me years of getting used to an iphone for writing emails and it still heavily is dependent on autocorrect to result in a coherent sentence. Much less so on the BlackBerry I found.

[Jobbo]

BlackBerry bold

I had to google that model. Launched 2008 which is when I got an iPhone, so I never tried it. I do remember friends who adored their Blackberries keeping the last models for a good few years.

[jamcg]

15.4wpm. Guess I’m a bit rusty