Graffiti on the Palm Pilot was like that: “I have to learn a new alphabet? Really?” I find that Swype feels a lot like just lazily failing to lift my finger from the screen when typing on the soft keyboard— but it’s still a far cry from typing 60 words per minute on a real keyboard. There are a variety of portable Bluetooth keyboards that fold up or roll up that can let you do real touchtyping on a tablet; those could be worth a look if you get to the point of “I like my tablet but there are times I need a real keyboard”.