Do you text with one hand or two?

[nala]

i use one hand to hold the phone. The other to text. My millenials look at me like I'm an alien. I think it's part of evolution. They grew up texting. I grew up calling. What day you?

 

[monarch64]

Two. I have a 7+ and it's hard to hold with one hand as it is, let alone type on it.
I hate talking on the phone! Also why does voicemail still exist?

 

[sonnyjane]

I do both, but when I'm sitting down and can use both thumbs, I'm definitely a little faster than when I'm trying to text with just one.

 

[elle_71125]

Two! I like to hold my phone and text with my thumbs. My favorite way to text (and my niece would die if she saw me) is to put the phone down on something and type with my two first fingers. I am lame.

 

[Arcadian]

I hate texting because my nails are so long. I have a S8+ and tend to use Google voice to text. Ive gotten very good at it actually.

 

[Dancing Fire]

I text with my toes...

 

[missy]

I can do it either way but generally prefer texting with one hand. My dh uses both hands when texting.

 

[Puppmom]

One. My thumbs cannot work in conjunction.

 

[december-fire]

I can type almost as fast as I can talk (and as fast as some people talk).
On a full-size keyboard.
On a cell phone, I use one finger, frequently hit the wrong little key, and take forever to type out a short little sentence!
My kids told me its not necessary to use proper grammar and punctuation in text messages.
I've gone to the Dark Side and betrayed grammar rules, and I've even been known to type ... geez, this is hard to confess ... 'ur' rather than 'your' or 'you're'.

I really dislike typing on a cell phone.

 

[lilmosun]

I hate texting because my nails are so long. I have a S8+ and tend to use Google voice to text. Ive gotten very good at it actually.

Me too. One hand and painfully slow as I hit the wrong keys all the time. My kids are so embarrassed that in public, they grab the phone from me and tell me to let them type.

When smartphones came out, I was the "cool" mom...always had the latest device and was so fast that everyone called my phones my "thumb exercisers". I had a sidekick and the early touchscreen phones which had a resistive screens (i.e. responded to fingernail pressure). Then the capacitve screens came out starting with the first iPhones....ugh. From thereon, my phones had to have a physical keyboards.

Fortunately for both my fingers (and my now aging eyes), they came out with the phablet (large) phones like the Galaxy Note which helped a bit. The upside is that I used to always feel like I had to respond to emails/messages right away. Now that it isn't as easy to respond, I wait until I am at a computer to respond unless it urgent...better for work/life balance

 

[lyra]

I don't think I use either method consistently. I quite often fumble big time and as the phone is leaving my hands to fall somewhere, I somehow manage to add emojis, words and all types of things that don't make sense. Then I have to apologize.

 

[Austina]

Only use my index finger.

 

[kenny]

I didn't vote in the poll.
Neither choice really applied to me.

I use both hands, 8 fingers, and my right thumb for the space bar.
I've never texted on a phone.
I only text on the old-school keyboard of my home iMac puter using a program it came with called "Messages".
Even then, there is only one person I text to.

 

[violet3]

I use one hand, but I can text really quickly. I will say though, one of my favorite functions of my laptop (I have a macbook air) is that I can send and receive texts from it. I much prefer a real keyboard to typing on the phone.

And I agree with puppmom, my thumbs don't work well in conjunction with one and other

 

[naivemelody]

I use each thumb kinda like I'd use each hand on a full size keyboard. As that description suggests, I'm nowhere near as fast texting as I am on a keyboard since I have 5x fewer digits to work with! I use the suggested words whenever it manages to complete them properly, which helps a little with speed.

I definitely found it harder to become a fast typer on touchscreen than on the old blackberry physical keyboards. But as a kid I also had a slow time learning to touch-type, until I started heavily using AIM (AOL instant messenger... old af) so I had to learn to type fast to chat with my friends. Same basic idea on phone screens, I spend so much time on my phone and eventually interacted enough that I needed to get fast enough. I still can't really "think" fully on a phone screen though, I compose better thoughts on a full screen, so that'd be the next frontier I guess.

Sometimes when I get frustrated with my texting speed I try to use that swype thing where you trace your finger around the keyboard without picking it up, but it never really works out for me and I end up going back to double thumbs.

 

[Sparkly2017]

hands but apparently our thumbs are not designed for this. I now have De Quervain'stenosynovitis which is inflammation of tendons on the side of the wrist at the base of the thumb because of this (similar to carpel tunnel syndrome)

I was told you should hold with one hand and use your index finger but that would take FOREVER.

 

[gemgirl]

I text with one hand using my index finger. For the life of me, I can't understand the thumb thing, My thumbs wouldn't fit on those teeny tiny squares.

 

[ringbling17]

I text with my left thumb and my right index finger. I have a big phone tho so I use my left hand to hold the phone up. I have a blister on my left pinky from how I hold my phone.

 

[Puppmom]

Sparkly, I have (had) de quervain's tenosynovitis too and was on the verge of surgery. I had two cortisone shots and the relief was short lived. As last resort to surgery the hand specialist told me to try epsom salt soaks. I soaked every other day for two weeks. I saw improvement right away and complete relief in about 10 days. I've had no problems since and that was three years ago!