For some background, I’m a huge fan of alternative keyboards and layouts, I’ve been using florisboard since it got the nalmy layout and swipe typing, and switched to thumbkey shortly after it came out.

I recently have been purging my phone of unused apps and even though I always use thumbkey, I ran out of low hanging fruit and decided to compare my wpm with thumbkey and the default qwerty grapheneos keyboard. Turns out, both are ~40-44 wpm, which is definitely good (the average is 30), but given that I’ve used thumbkey so long I was a bit surprised it was the same speed as a keyboard layout I’ve only used a handful of times in years (I don’t use qwerty on desktop either).

I just realized I haven’t tested one hand mode, so I’ll edit the post with those results, but it got me curious to see what other peoples speeds are with thumbkey vs qwerty. If you share, it would be also interesting to know how long you’ve been using thumbkey

edit: one handed is where thumbkey really shines. Not only was it a lot more comfortable and smooth, it also hit 38 wpm, whereas qwerty was 27. Looks like thumbkey is here to stay on my phone, thanks for the great keyboard!

  • BRINGit34@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    My wpm is probably slower on thumbkey but I like being able to type whole sentences with one hand. A lot easier than using both.

    Just tested.

    42wpm on thumbkey (one handed) 63wpm qwerty (two handed)

    Which this is after one test so who knows…

  • telepresence@discuss.tchncs.de
    2·
    1 month ago

    i can do 70wpm on a 30second monkeytype test using monkeytype. i am using the normal thumb-key english layout with letters hidden so that i don’t look at them when i type.