Do young people prefer to use 26 keys instead of 9 keys?

Mondo Digital Updated on 2024-01-29

As far as I observe the samples around me,It's rare to see the post-00 with the nine-key input method,The possible reason is:Because I haven't seen a button machine,And the nine-key input method is a compromise made in order to be compatible with the button machine。 But I thinkAge is only an indirect factor, not a major factor.

But the current mobile phone almost still retains the nine-key input method,Why in addition to the user who chooses the nine-key because of historical reasons,There are no new users in the pit of the nine-key?

Some nine-key users are going to question.,You're lying.,Obviously my nine-key is more slippery than 26.,Why do you say 26.,Why do you say 26.,26.?In order to avoid subjective assumptions, we should first set a clear target.

So let's start by hiring a fair typist who has been trained to type at a strict rate of 120 strokes per minute, and then we ask the typist to type a paragraph with nine keys and two six keys to type a phrase "like it".

Because associative input only acts on the process of generating Chinese characters in pinyin ("xihuanjiudianzan"Convert to "like if you like it"), and pinyin completion ("xhjdz"Convert to "Like and like.""The two processes are fair to the nine keys and the 26 keys, so we ignore the above two processes and only compare the speed of the spelling of the input paragraph.

First, 26 key inputs"xihuanjiudianzan", apparently you need to press 16;The nine-key contains multiple letters because each key, so you need to make another selection after pressing the key to enter a letter, which needs to be pressed 32 times. So when the number of letters entered in the 26 key is 26=, should the nine keys be pressed 9=2?If the theory is true, but it does not correspond to the facts, then the model is not accurate.

In fact, students who have studied coding should know that when most coders map symbol sets 1 to 2, as long as the number of two symbol sets is not equal, then there must be some coding combinations that are not available.

In human terms, when pinyin is translated into Chinese, many pinyin combinations are invalid, so when entered"xihuan"When you don't press it 12 times, you press it"92(x)4(i)42(h)82(u)2(a)62(n)", because"x"The back can only be"i"And it can't be"g"or"h", so you don't always have to press the second time when you enter the nine keys, in fact, when you enter the finals ("aeio") can be pressed only once.

Each Chinese character has a vowel, so roughly averaged, a string of spelling should have one-third is"aeio", then the number of nine-key inputs can be shortened to 9=23 2+13 =53.

Nine-key keyboard for iPhone.

So this can be concluded that 26 keys are faster?We seem to have forgotten that the nine-key was born precisely because the keyboard was too small and the 26-key was inconvenient, so the nine-key input was invented. So why is the 26 key inconvenient?Because if there are 26 keys in the same area, the size of each key is only one-third of the 9 keys, and it is easy for everyone to press it wrong.

Personal observation, the biggest impact is still the Xi of holding a mobile phone.

Often typing in the office, at home, Xi backpack, hands are more free, are 26 key input.

I often type on the commute and type with my mobile phone in one hand, and I type it with 9 keys.

To summarize a few other aspects of influence:

The popularity of smart phones has been less than 10 years, and I used a non-smart phone that my parents bought for me in junior high school, afraid that I would play games.

It costs only 10 yuan per month, but I can use the traffic to send unlimited text messages to my classmates, and I was a typing thief at that time.

After using the 26 keys from the smartphone,I can't go back after a long time.,In the past, whether it was pinyin or strokes, it was directly blind typing.。 Now the 9 keyboard can't be typed at all, and the strokes of some words don't even know how to write!And many people around me are also in this situation, and my personal hunch is not a good sign.

Observe slender fingers in girls with a higher proportion of 26 keys.

People who often take the bus, holding the handle in one hand and the mobile phone in the other, can only input with their thumbs. The 26 keys are especially unfriendly to the thumb. I often look at it and press it, and it is something else that is typed.

The 9-square grid has a very high tolerance for thumb input.

Another reason for people who use Jiugongge is that many people don't buy plus's large-screen mobile phones.

In the current environment, many work and social communication are completed by mobile phones.

Therefore, mobile phones are generally bought with narrow screens and small sizes.

The screen is narrow, and the 26-key one is a disaster. It's hard to type smoothly.

Nine-key one-handed input, suitable for freeing up one hand to do others, focusing on a convenient, suitable for daily communication, I believe no one writes**write**, but also use nine keys.

This is very suitable for mobile phones where daily communication is the main work.

26-key input is indeed faster, but with both hands, the user must hold the phone horizontally with both hands and enter in a devotional posture. In this way, not only can you not free one hand to do anything else, but even if you do something that does not use your hands, it will be disturbed.

Although the input is fast but very chicken, after all, the mobile phone is not a special office tool, when you need to work, the efficiency of the computer is higher, and no one will go to the code word on the mobile phone, go to the office.

Therefore, the nine keys are more suitable for mobile phones, and you can grab the bus handrail with one hand, or eat, or use the code word in the briefcase to output fragmented information on communication. Those who insist on using the 26 keys probably don't have the need to do other things while coding words.

Related Pages