The keyboard is one of the tools we use most on our phones, whether to write a WhatsApp message or an email, or even to write the name of the song we want to listen to on Spotify. There are some great keyboards in the Android ecosystem, but only one can be the bestand a study attempted to determine what it is.
The answer they found, after analyzing several data, is as follows: There is no better keyboard than Gboard, Google’s keyboardand this includes not only the keyboards available for Android, but they also took into account the iPhone keyboard. To determine this answer, the study took into account different factors, such as the ability to predict the next word the user would like to write and, of course, to detect and correct errors.
Neither SwiftKey nor the iPhone keyboard: the best keyboard for science is Gboard
A good keyboard usually includes important tools and functions to provide more convenience and alternatives to the user. For example, it is practically essential that the keyboard offers us the possibility of write by swipingand it can even be very useful to have the ability to dictate what you want to say, instead of having to write it down.
Gboard can do this and much more, like other keyboards for Android, but it is not thanks to this series of functions that the Kebbie firm found, through a study, that Gboard is the best keyboard currently available. The answer lies in how it makes our lives easier when writing: its software not only helps us by correcting errors, but can even predict words and, more importantly, detects what we want to write even if we don’t press the right virtual key.
The firm analyzed three parameters to find the best keyboard available: the automatic word correction, your ability to complete text and the ability to predict the next word. They then gave points to the keyboards in each category, to determine which one was the best. The top keyboards were:
- Gboard in first place, with a total of 536 points
- Quick key in second place, with 474 points
- The iOS keyboard in third place, with 464 points
- Yandex in fourth place with 434 points
- Flexible in fifth place, with 426 points
The rest of the keyboards are below this Top 5 with at least 100 points difference from fifth place.
Gboard offers various writing tools, including voice dictation, clipboard, and even a built-in translator.
Olivier Plante, CEO of Kebbie, explained the process followed to carry out this study, speaking to Yahoo! Finance:
“We take a dataset of correct English sentences, then corrupt them by introducing artificially generated typos, similar to those a human would make. Finally, we simulate a person typing on each keyboard, using an emulator, and measure how the errors are corrected.
Beyond the total score for each keyboard, available in Kebbie’s report, it is interesting to see in which section each of them stands out. Gboard, for example, is the one that best detects errors when writingand also the one that can perform the most in autocorrections, followed by Swiftkey in this last section. On the other hand, the keyboard that performs best in predicting the next word is the iPhone keyboard.
There are many keyboards available that offer themes and other customization options, and giving a distinctive touch to our keyboard is great, but the most important thing is that it can correct our mistakes quickly and accuratelyand it can save us time predicting what we want to say next, especially if we use the swipe-to-type tool.
Gboard is available for free on the Google Play Store and comes installed by default on many mobile phones, such as Google Pixel and Motorola.
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