"real helpful" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to emphasize the helpfulness of something. For example, "This website was real helpful when it came to finding places to volunteer."
"Lee Lee's real helpful," he said.
"I think television is real helpful for women's, uh, liberation," she says frantically.
He's a long way from Arizona, so for him to know someone on the East Coast is real helpful".
If you want some real helpful stats and links, check out Google Director of Research Peter Norvig's Presidential Election 2008 FAQ page.
"I think playing against bigger guards this year has been real helpful for me, in terms of improving my defense and getting me better any way that I can," Collison said.
Without knowing the nature of your health problems I can't be specific, but it's almost certain that you encountered real-life predicaments, bureaucratic bottlenecks or insensitive treatment, for example, that will have given you real and helpful insights into a number of different fields of work.
In real life, helpful and malicious feedback are often mixed together to feed the model.
The important part about this conversation is that it is natural, real, and helpful.
They were sobering, real, and helpful -- well beyond their initial intention, I am sure.
NPR had its correspondents annotating the speech in real time, providing helpful context on the history of the carried-interest debate and the situation in Aleppo.
While Sayed agrees that sharing positive news and important information via Facebook feeds can be helpful, real change comes from engaging with those who have differing views.
