Comment by person3 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by person3 | Hacker News Reader

I can type like 45 WPM on my phone keyboard right now. I'm definitely faster on a full size keyboard, but I'm not sure if I would be faster on this small keyboard. I know a lot of people wanted keyboard like this when the iPhone first came out, but now with a lot of practice using mobile keyboards, I'm not sure it's needed.

One of the main arguments for hardware keyboards was you could type without looking. I don't really look at my phone keyboard when typing, I roughly know the spacing of the letters. Plus auto correct is really good at this point, so when I do make mistakes the phone usually just corrects them.

The only use case I could see for this is if the keyboard had control/alt/esc keys - in that case shelling into a machine on my phone might become slightly more efficient than an onscreen keyboard.

I don't necessarily disagree with your comment, but you don't seem to address the chief virtue claimed by this product's marketing material:

> Free up your screen for content > Content First > Maximize your screen space for apps and content while you create with Clicks. > Clicks on. Screen size up. > Make more space for apps and content by moving the keyboard off your screen.

I have had the experience of the software keyboard making my screen feel claustrophobic from time to time. It has never been bad enough that I would consider reaching for something like Clicks, but it's certainly a problem I would rather never encounter if I had the choice.

I'm waiting for the day they remove the keyboard altogether and just have everyone use voice to text and eventually thought to text. I'd love to see that black mirror episode expanding on the meme of everyone sitting at a table texting each other at the same table but because of voice to text they've had this ingenious idea that they could just talk to each other instead!

And that is the last day I ever eat at a restaurant.

You won't eat at a restaurant where the people at the table talk to each other instead of texting each other?

I use the Unexpected Keyboard [1] on Android. I can use shortcuts like on a real keyboard and it is easy to get used to.

[1]: https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard

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