Ask Lemmy

I have the spell check toggled on, but not autocorrect. I hate having my text changed when it is what I actually want, but having the mistakes underlined so I can fix them manually can be useful

I don't because most of the time, it's correcting words that are already spelled correctly into a slightly different word that doesn't fit the context and ends up taking more time to type something than just manually correcting any errors.

Like its to it's and vice versa. Or fuck to duck.

On mobile I definitely do because I like to type really fast and sometimes I don’t have the patience to hit every key with 100% accuracy.

I do, but boy am I looking for a better keyboard, gboard has really gone downhill, I mean it was never great but it's just straight up putting completely wrong totally unrelated words in place of REAL FUCKING WORDS. I miss pre-microsoft swiftkey, they had the best text prediction I've ever used. I remember in college my friend and I had a convo about how it was so good that he would have a full text to his dad perfectly predicted and he felt bad because he basically let a robot do the thinking for him lol. Now it's been gutted by microsoft, and the text correction is just as janky as gboard.

I feel like it'd erode my abilities over time like others say, but primarily I just find autocorrect worse than useless for efficiency. I keep disabling it every time I try on new devices.

yes, but I turn off autocomplete and autocapitalization and grammar correction

No. Because I don't want to rewrite everything it got wrong, and when you regularly write in three different languages that happens constantly.

Also, it makes the onscreen keyboard bigger.

Red squigglies, yes.

Auto-correction, fuck no. Not on anything except maybe in visual studio for snippets because it actually matters.

Anywhere else, though, just get better at typing and have fun embracing imperfections and silly typos.

Literally, to err is human.

I turned everything off about 2 years ago after getting annoyed by autocorrect making more mistakes than me. I like that the keyboard takes up less space and my typing has improved dramatically since then. I can type whole paragraphs now without making a single typo. I regret nothing.

No, never! They are more painful than useful.

I used to be so much better at spelling than all these spell checker things.

Recently, they have improved and I am getting old 😉 but I still see them making so many mistakes with new/modern words, and when I use terms from different languages... still no good.

Not autocorrect, but I let my phone suggest words and manually choose the one I want because I'm unable to write without mistakes on touch screen keyboards.

On my PC I don't use anything like that.

I did, but I just turned it off two seconds ago. I had been fed up for a while with all the "ducking" and other stupid autocorrects that I did not intend. I can type well enough and if not, that's on me. But autocorrect makes worse errors than I do. I usually proof read my texts anyways, so that should catch 99% of all preventable errors.

Yes. Disabled, faster.

Duck auto carrot.

Jokes aside, I prefer to have errors be marked with an angry red squiggly line and suggestions. No automation beyond an upper case letter at the beginning of a sentence. Even that is too much on a computer.

i disabled auto correct and predictive text. do i make more typos, yes, but it is better than having my sentences change as i type. i got so frustrated with words changing as i typed

Of corse

I don't see a need for autocorrection, when I have autocompletion. When I make a typo, I just press the correct version on the suggestion row of my keyboard.

To be honest, I can't comprehend how so many people can withstand autocorrection and not use completions.

I've been using swipe to type on my phone, but I do wonder if I spend more time correcting it than I save by using it. If I have a physical keyboard, hell no. All spelling errors are entirely my own.

No, my keyboard doesn't support it, and I don't much like it, anyways. It forces me to slow down slightly and re-read what I wrote.

I do! Being reasonably accurate as possible when typing is something that I value! It helps, as sometimes I am a goose on the loose, and don't proofread my sentences before posting. The obvious errors are at least caught before they become final.

I have SwiftKey. Autocorrect is switched off, but it still auto, ahem, "corrects". Because apparently when you type "have" you must have meant "haven't".

Does anyone know a keyboard that doesn't do dumb shit like that?

I have it on but I do toy with the idea of turning it off occasionally.

My biggest problem with typing is I will “accidentally a word” a lot in sentences.

Yes, I gave far finders.

Yes. Autocorrect has gotten better and better with my typing as it learns the words I type. It takes into account where on the wrong letters that I’m typing to figure out the actual word. I’m pretty fast at typing on my phone.

Yes, to my determinate

I spell most words just fine, but swipe implies some level of autocorrect, anyway. With physical keyboards of course not.

For anything on my PC, usually yes. For texting or simple messaging, yes. For Lemmy, no, any spelling errors here are genuine human fuck-ups.

Yes, because my spelling is atrocious and I need help.

No and never have as I simply don't feel like I have the need for it. I didn't even when my phone only had a physical numpad.

I use it on my phone for text messages, but I've realized that over the years, I'm starting to forget how to spell some words. I should probably stop using it to reprogram my brain.

I don't because I can't. The main language I use privately does not exist + I quite often browse English speaking sites.

Autocorrect on the phone, suggestions on computer. Grammar check is junk, though, as 95% of the world isn't - checks notes - American, and don't follow the prophet Webster.