Ive 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.
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.
I 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").
I tried it cromite just to see and honestly it lagged on me when trying to open the menus etc. Mull /fennec were noticeably snappier. S23 standard here fwiw
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