IPhone, hard to text at first?

Hi.
I just recently visited a local apple store after researching the iPhone for quite a while now. When I got to the store I went straight to the iPhone and being a teenager went straight to the SMS application to see how I would do using a virtual keyboard. I started typing and was very disappointed on how inaccurate my words were coming out as. Every word that I typed seemed to have an error in it and I had to constantly backspace. Every letter I tried to press seemed to come out as the letter either next to it or above it. My friend saw how frustrated I was over constantly hitting the backspace and he started to question if this was the right phone for me. Now being a heavy texter, will this typing speed and accuracy improve over time and did anyone else have the same problem when first getting the phone?
Thanks

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