I have absolutely no idea why Direct Touch-Typing exists at all since it's not even the way it works for the sighted, at least it wasn't on iOS 7, the last version of iOS that I used without a screen-reader. In any case the swipe keyboard on iOS 13 allows you to type quickly without being precise, but it takes some time to get used to.

You have two options. You can use direct typing the way I did (see below), or you can try out FlickType.

The way I learned direct touch typing was with a lot of preparation. Before iOS 8 when it was added, I used touch typing for 4 years and never let myself make a mistake or drag my finger to find a letter. If I mistyped a letter in a word, I deleted the whole word and started over. It was hellishly frustrating, but I could almost immediately type with direct touch and not make any errors that autocorrect wouldn't fix. After a while, touch typing just felt slow and restrictive. I did have a Speed Dots protector on my phone for about six months, so that might have also helped me learn the positions of the keys a bit better. As far as I know, you can still get one.

FlickType is the lazy option, but it is very good and much more forgiving. Even with the practice I've had, I prefer to use it, though I'm thankful I forced myself to memorize the keyboard and didn't grow up with any other option for typing on the screen..

I use direct touch all the time, braile typing only for passwords.

I used the speech letters option for a long while, but now I'm trying to use it without letters feedback, words only. So far it's been the closest I"i'l ever come to typing in a physical keyboard.

I love direct touch and am using it right now. The drawback of direct touch typing is that as a blind person you can’t see what letters your typing as you type them without screen reader input. So I rely on a combination of auto correct and muscle memory. I know apples auto correct isn’t the best but if you work on the muscle memory it’s like 95 percent helpful for me. Doesn’t work in password fields and can make entering unlock passcodes odd so keep that in mind.

hi there! I am one of those, who can type with Dirrect touch typing pretty well. I got used to it pretty quickly. What I did was learned where the keys are on screen and size in between those. I knew computer keyboard very well at the time I first used IOS. That was usefull, because I already knew which keys were next to which. Then that just goes to touch screen with certain differences, such as there's no tab key or caps lock, which means that q and a are moved to the most left side of the screen. g h, t y and bn are always in the center, positioned vertically, like on normal qwerty keyboards. One difference is that p and l are on the most right side of the screen. Next thing is to remember the size between those letters. Later on, you'll get really used to it and your accuracy will be improved. If you do 90% of the time, that's considered to be good, because sighted people are also making mistakes while they tipe as well, so it's not a big deal if you make mistakes. The only thing is, you need to have voiceover set to tell you the keys you type, so you can catch the mistakes. If you get to point where you have 100% accuracy, you can disable that as well. Besides what I've found is that on bigger screens the size of the keys are bigger, which means, that if you change the phone and it has a bigger screen, you'll have to readjust. But readjustment process is easy after you've got direct touch typing once.

Security note!

If you're in groups of blind people or have voiceover on slow speed at which the average person can easily understand it, want to enter password, don't have disabled speak typed letters and don't have/ware headphones, use breile screen input!

HTH.

many of the people claiming DTT accuracy also have autocorrect on. Whilst I'm sure some people with no vision at all manage well, I'm not one of them. BSI for me almost everywhere (although I'd like a one-handed mode), and the slide method introduced in iOS13 is very nice for that I'm finding. .

It's all muscle memory, but honestly I largely prefer braille screen input as my primary typing method.

It's pretty much just about having excellent spacial awareness, which most people don't have. I use regular touch typing when I only have one hand available, with BSI most of the time. I'm like 80% accurate, with minor moving to fix my letters, but frankly DTT is annoying and, as someone else said, not even how sighted people type.

Hah nfc honestly. I find it to be a rather impressive skill. I've heard other people use it because frankly, I didn't believe them when they said they could, but they really can. I've tried, and just make a mess.