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HumbleExaggeration@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Yeah I also struggle with the layouts. I feel like they are not optimal for German, even the German layout. Most of the letters that often come in pairs like mm or ll are locked behind swipe gestures, which makes it really hard to type them fast. I get, why the most common letters are in the top layer, but I think swiping twice the same letter takes so much more time than swiping a common letter once… Maybe I have to adjust it a little. As far as I understand it is possible to edit the layouts in the app.

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haerrii@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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In that case, I attached you a screenshot of my personal layout. I tried optimizing for

roughly qwertz positions to easen learning curve

most common german monograms, bigrams and some trigrams (confer how you’d input “sch” with a very quick diagonal tap tap swipe gesture with only one change in one dimension, staying on one axis)

keeping ergonomics in mind, optimized for right hand use and positioning more common letters with more easy to execute gestures, and having as few out of bounds gestures as possible

not ignoring english completely

I really should update my thumb key
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- HumbleExaggeration@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Thank you for sharing your layout. It was a good starting point. I changed some things arond a bit and arrived at the following layout. I find it good for writing in german, but in english there are still some challenges like ou or oo that are kind of slow…
  
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  - haerrii@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Glad I could help! for bigrams like ou I feel it natural, when the second letter can be started from the point where the swipe gesture from the first letter ended.
    
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