I use Gboard.

The main things I like about it are:

  • Very customizable (I like having number row always visible, and having long press for symbols on each letter).
  • Has gif support built in.

My biggest pain point is:

  • It auto corrects words that are spelled correctly to other words. I type “our” and it changes to “out”, I recently typed “purpose” and it changed it to “purple”. Autocorrect is awesome and necessary, but I hate that it corrects words to other words and not just typos. I wish I could find a keyboard that has the things I like without this annoyance.

Am I looking for a unicorn? Let me know! 😄

  • StorageAwareEnglish
    110·
    2 months ago

    Thumb-Key

    It took a few weeks to get used to it and a few more to get comfortable, but now I don’t think I can go back. Before when I messed up, I would keep repeating the mistake until I was forced to slow down. Now I can get 40-50 WPM when I try.

    I do miss some things but they really aren’t deal breakers:

    • Clipboard History
    • Emoji Search
    • Autofill Integration
    • blackstrat
      30·
      2 months ago

      Just installed it and am finding it very slow going so far. Why are all the letters randomly placed?

      • novemberEnglish
        50·
        2 months ago

        It’s not random! The placement is based on letter frequency.

        • blackstrat
          20·
          2 months ago

          So not a pattern an actual person can spot, whilst not being totally random.

          • Player2English
            30·
            2 months ago

            It’s a pattern that will feel more natural the more you use it

          • Linssiili
            20·
            2 months ago

            Yeah you can’t really “infer” where a letter is, it just takes time to learn the loiations by heart. I think I have used this for 6 months or so, and I’m able to write 40wpm without looking at the keyboard. But damn was it slow in beginning

    • Player2English
      30·
      2 months ago

      I have been using Thumb Key for a few months and while I generally like it, I have not been able to figure out how to remove things like the voice typing, pasting, and undo shortcuts. Every so often I accidentally hit undo while typing, which just erases my whole message irrecoverably since my other thumb hit the next key right after. I wish I could remove all those swipe controls on the side altogether since I never use them.

      • StorageAwareEnglish
        20·
        2 months ago

        I actually did try it! Though I don’t use numbers enough to justify the smaller hitboxes for the letters so I went back.