Comments on: How many taps in a URL

By: avinash

avinash — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:45:19 +0000

http://overstated.net/projects/tap-calculator/ does not work on IE..FireFox is ok ..using IE 6

Unknown Runtime error ..Line 23

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:12:39 +0000

I once had the domain “mjg.md” registered because you could type it in only 6 presses with multi-tap and put a mobile tinyurl service on it that also made single keypress per letter urls. I was thinking that people might use those URLs for billboards and other real life ads to make them easy to type on mobile phones…

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By: Anil

Anil — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 07:46:09 +0000

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By: Martin Stabe » (More) links for 2006-12-13

Martin Stabe » (More) links for 2006-12-13 — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:38:39 +0000

[...] Overstated: How many taps in a URL? A tool for calculating how many key-taps on a mobile phone are needed to enter a string of text. Useful for working out how cumbersome your mobile URLs really are. (tags: blog design mobile sms usability) [...]

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Martin Stabe » links for 2006-12-13 — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:25:25 +0000

By: cameron

cameron — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:57:32 +0000

I am accounting for the “pauses,” currently with an extra tap (assuming you’re hitting the “forward” or “next” button), but you could consider these costing much more in the grand scheme of things.

By: Anson

Anson — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:48:42 +0000

Another issue entering text on a keypad occurs when you have consecutive letters on the same key. After tapping the first one you need to wait until the cursor appears before you can enter the next (rather than immediately typing the next letter if it occurs on another key).

So that would be an interesting metric to track also. “Pauses” I guess you could call them.

Entering “mmmm” (4 taps, 3 pauses) takes far longer than “mule” (8 taps, 0 pauses).