Typing speed with Thumb-key keyboard
Typing speed with Thumb-key keyboard
A privacy-conscious Android keyboard made for your thumbs - GitHub - dessalines/thumb-key: A privacy-conscious Android keyboard made for your thumbs
Just wondering if anyone else has learned the Thumb-key keyboard well and could share their typing speed?
I have been using the TypeSplit layout for a few weeks now and get over 50-55 wpm with it consistently. I'm still learning it though so I'm expecting to see over 60 wpm soon.
I'll give it a shot
$26.99
I'll let someone else give it a shot
8You can get it for free from GitHub (check releases). Use Obtainium to get updates.
Edit: it's also on F-Droid
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I grabbed it from FDroid to give it a try. I really don't believe there could be any way to use this where the speed could even come close to a swipe based keyboard. Every character requires a full up down motion with your thumb and often an additional gesture to reach a sub letter and the subsequent space between words. With swipe style I can bang out entire words with their space in a single motion with about 85% accuracy. Thumb keys layout doesn't map to existing keyboard layouts rather it prioritizes common letters with less common letters on gestures which failed me a couple of times because my direction was a little too up vs up right. Swipe typing has a huge leeway for errors including skipping letters while offering suggestions because it can see the entire word you attempted.
They could possibly add swipe functionality to this to improve the speed but given the center space contains 9 characters I'm not sure that would be possible to infer that much.
Maybe someone could really spend the time rewiring their brain to use this but I don't think in it's current state it can compete in WPM with a swipe style keyboard so it really comes down to how important the privacy features are to you.
3Ive tried a good amount of different keyboards and i always come back to touch typing and swipe typing. It's just too fast to touch type with both thumbs or swipe type with one.
1I used messagease keyboard before (the only non-foss app on my phone). So I am happy to have a foss keyboard now. I'm still with the normal messagease layout and nowhere near 50 wpm. I like to have full control over what I write, including brackets and other symbols, mostly for markdown. I usually type with one hand and am about as fast on left vs. right. I also like having a 3x3 numeric keyboard. I'm not sure if this can be configured on thumb, but I coud type single digits by long pressing a button on messagease.
I never liked predictive typing, maybe because i did too many errors on my small screen (<5").
1The learning curve on this is crazy.
1Man this keyboard is fucky but kinda fun to use. Takes me forever to type anything. Going to take some getting used to.
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