"swipe typing" is already streets ahead speed-wise on mobile devices. One touch per word. And having a little travel distance is actually a benefit as it helps distinguish the words.
this is a very important point. i tried swiping in my phone using the colemak keyboard layout which i use on normal keyboards, and found it utterly unusable because the prediction quality dramatically goes down. this is most likely caused by the lack of shapes made with the swiping gestures: colemak has the most common letters on the home row so on practice you're mostly swiping left/right.
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"swipe typing" is already streets ahead speed-wise on mobile devices. One touch per word. And having a little travel distance is actually a benefit as it helps distinguish the words.
this is a very important point. i tried swiping in my phone using the colemak keyboard layout which i use on normal keyboards, and found it utterly unusable because the prediction quality dramatically goes down. this is most likely caused by the lack of shapes made with the swiping gestures: colemak has the most common letters on the home row so on practice you're mostly swiping left/right.