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Okay, I'm typing on Minuum right now. It's extremely accurate but I feel slow. You sort of have to shut your brain off and pretend you're playing a letter hunting arcade game.

It seems like I miss the space bar about five percent of the time.

To the developers, nice job and thanks for putting it on sale in the Play store.

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You can swipe to the right to enter a space.

Shame about the spacing issue, out of curiosity, how large is your device?

We actually prefer to use the right slide gesture for a space, the added bonus being that then you can disable the space bar in the settings and save even more screen space.

After you've used it for a few days, I'd love to get your impressions. You can get in touch with me at xavier@whirlscape.com if you're interested in sending any thoughts.

Hi, thanks for getting back to me! I didn't realize that the right swipe existed, but it's amazing! It actually solves both of my problems: now I can keep my thumbs in pretty much the same spot, which is great.

I'm using an HTC First (please don't make fun of me), which has a 4.3 inch screen.

I tried it out as an exercise, just imagining a vague area of my desk as the single row of keys. It took a minute, but I was quickly able to shut off the "Y axis" part of my touch typing skills. Obviously, I wasn't actually testing on the real software, but I suspect I would be able to achieve reasonably good accuracy and speed.

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