Asklemmy

I hate autocorrect with a passion and never use it, reason being that it tries to correct variant spellings, names, and other unique words I use. I know adding mine own words to the keyboard's dictionary would alleviate that issue, but I find that / predictive text eerie. I'm not so busy that I cannot proofread what I type, and I use any words I mis-spell as a learning opportunity, because it helps me remember it for future use.

My keyboard app has allows you to undo autocorrect with a swipe, so I generally leave it on. Allows me to type probably ~2.5x as fast.

phone keyboards are so small, that, in my experience, however good they are, it's basically impossible to type quickly without mistakes, so i always have autocorrect turned on on my phone

however, i compensate for the diminishing knowledge of spelling by turning off autocorrect on my computer, works fine 🤷‍♀️

I'm currently using FlorisBoard on Android (I've been using it for the last ~7 days, so not much), and it doesn't have words correction yet - so yeah, I'm constantly looking up words online (or briefly switching to OpenBoard). If I went back to high school, my English tests would be such a mess...

I've always had them off, and even after 10+ years I make the same amount of typos. I make almost no typos on a Japanese kana flick keyboard, and I'm wondering if I should get a flick keyboard on all languages and relearn typing on the phone like I did on desktop when I ditched qwerty.

I use florisboard so there is no dictionary suggestion whjch is, as you said, hard to tyoe correctly. I find it frustrsting and sometimes too tired to correct them unless it's absolitely unreadsble