Being a previously faithful Swype user I've forced myself to work with the 4.2 keyboard and I have to say I'm liking it more each day. Every keyboard I've tried has it's own quirks and the stock KB is no different. It's "gesture typing" is very similar to Swype and Swiftkey Flow. I turned off the Dynamic Floating Preview to keep the screen less cluttered. Some may like that on... All in all it's been about as good as I've seen in a stock keyboard so far.