• PunnyName@lemmy.world
      371·
      9 months ago

      George Floyd was murdered on May 25. COVID was ravaging the world. The presidential election cycle was in full swing. And I’m sure much more.

      • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.caEnglish
        171·
        9 months ago

        Anna I’m sure much more.

        Hello fellow Gboard user. I would have also noticed “abs” in place of “and”.

          • effward@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            9 months ago

            It does feel this way… but why?! Shouldn’t it be getting better with more training data? Is other people’s shitty typing data fucking up my experience?

            Or maybe my swiping technique is getting lazy? I’m not sure, but it definitely feels worse than a few years ago.

            • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee
              4·
              9 months ago

              If you make the same typo often enough and don’t correct it with the autocorrect feature (eg backspacing or jumping to the wrong character instead) Gboard will think it’s what you’re meaning to type and add it to your dictionary. When it comes up in the little autocorrect thing above your keyboard, you can drag it into the trash. You could also go through your dictionary and delete specific words as well. That’s what works for me anyways, not sure if I’m correct

                • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee
                  3·
                  9 months ago

                  Happy to help! Bonus tip, on Android you can hold the space bar down and slide the cursor left or right to bring it to specific letters too. On apple you can jump lines with the cursor by doing the same thing, just up/down instead

                  • PunnyName@lemmy.world
                    2·
                    9 months ago

                    Yeah, I’ve been using the spacebar cursor thing for years, only after a similar interaction. It gets annoying at times since it will often speed up way past the point I’m trying to go, however.

      • DarienGS@lemmy.world
        3·
        9 months ago

        That was my immediate guess, but Covid blew up in March, and the Reddit graph doesn’t go crazy until a few months later. It is hard to see what else could possibly explain it though; I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s just an error in the axis labelling or something.

    • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
      5·
      9 months ago

      Bored people from the Coronavirus + US Election, if I were to hazard a guess?