Customizable key arrangement

Comments: 59

• 12 Dec, '19
  Martin

  Yes i think also its a individual like. for me are the two buttons not necessary. I prefer the gesture.

• 26 Dec, '19
  Kirk

  For me, it seems that the letters are not necessarily arranged for speed. If one is typing with two hands then perhaps the most frequntly used letters should be around the space hexagons. If one is typing with one hand, for instance the right, then perhaps the most commonly use letters should be centric around the right space hexagon and the left space hexigon would not be used, but would be replaced with another letter.

• 08 Jan, '20
  Dan

  HI... to give us the possibility to change it to our needs will be the best.
  Especially for new users so for free version: for example I downloaded Typewise on my mother phone, but she is not confortable with esclamation point and question mark in the same button (honestly even for me should be better to separate and put exclamation point on comma button). Thanks!

• 14 Feb, '20
  Tom

  Since I write with one hand most of the time, I would also prefer customizable characters. One option would also be a one-handed mode for left or right.

• 02 Mar, '20
  Janis Berneker Admin

  "It should. Be customizable for everyone" (suggested by Musaab on 2020-02-23), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 04 Apr, '20
  Babak

  Yes the ability to customize key locations will be great. Also the space bar locations.

• 12 May, '20
  Bee

  I can't get use to this modified qwerty layout. Move the space down one row and have the a, s, and d close to each other

• 27 May, '20
  Janis Berneker Admin

  "Adjustable keys" (suggested by Brandon on 2020-05-13), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 16 Jul, '20
  Davos Merged

  Give the option to enlarge letters in landscape mode or just increase spacing, if we want to keep the Portrait mode layout. Also, perhaps a backspace button. Great job

• 17 Jul, '20
  David Eberle Admin

  "Swipe feature would be icing on the cake" (suggested by Davos on 2020-07-16), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 31 Jul, '20
  Ben

  I canceled my subscription once I found out I couldn’t move the keys where I wanted them. I really like the keyboard but that was the reason why I purchased was to move letters where I wanted them due to my learning disabilities.

• 05 Oct, '20
  Felix Guggenheim

  moving the space buttons to the edge would help me to avoid "mis-types"

• 27 Nov, '20
  Janis Berneker Admin

  "Total individual key assignment" (suggested by Alessandro on 2020-10-28), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 04 Dec, '20
  Fabeltief

  Absolutely, customizable keyboard. @-sign must be accessible without additional step. Thanks. Love the principle of privacy while typing. If you add customization, I will go for the pro-version

• 07 Dec, '20
  Max

  YES please! This would also expand audiences since we can make Colemak, Dvorak, etc.

• 31 Dec, '20
  Peter

  Two and one handed typist here would be also happy for the space slash cursor key to be placed on the edge for my average sized thumbs and would improve hit rate in combination with auto spacing added on predictive word suggestions.

• 12 Jan, '21
  Mat C. Merged

  Movable or swqppable keys. I.e. putting the "k" key where the punctuation key is.

• 21 Jan, '21
  KalDust Merged

  As someone who was typing in DVORAK before switching, I'd really like to be able to drag the letters on the keyboard around in settings to better emulate that layout. Lt could also allow for hyper-customization for users that want to tweek Typewise further.

• 31 Jan, '21
  Johann Merged

  I would like to be able to customise my keyboard, because I do not need a ¿ or ¡ symbol but other currently not shown characters

• 04 Feb, '21
  Bendik

  Some accents are very active letters in my language. Please let me put æøå on the black half buttons over and under q and p

• 04 Mar, '21
  Toby

  That's what I am looking for! The possible arrangements are not the optimum.. especially as the possible arrangements to choose are based on traditional keyboard arrangements. Would be very appreciated if i could arrange it myself.. thanks!

• 21 Mar, '21
  ET

  reup. important key feature if you ask me. especially want to reduce the height a bit, so gain more actual screen. In tablet mode it would be nice if there would also bemore screen left.

• 01 Apr, '21
  Liberor

  I use Colemak-DH and Dvorak in my PC everyday. TW Standard layout isn't optimal for me, my hands hurt. This is a great suggestion.

• 07 Apr, '21
  Janis Berneker Admin

  "Key customization" (suggested by Johann on 2021-01-31), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 07 Apr, '21
  Janis Berneker Admin

  "Customizable keyboard layout" (suggested by KalDust on 2021-01-21), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 07 Apr, '21
  Janis Berneker Admin

  "Movable or swappable keys." (suggested by Mat C. on 2021-01-12), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 18 May, '21
  Cd

  Would be perfect for me as i want a kalq keyboard

• 03 Jun, '21
  Ben Walburn

  We should be able to rearrange the keys. In particular, the K key is in a position that requires changing your grip to press, defeating the purpose of the keyboard

• 06 Jun, '21
  Arno Merged

  in Unix and Windows it's easy to create personal key layouts. I have α а ا א at the same place. Just allow to rearrange the keys in each script -- or even have two for different kinds of text.

• 19 Jun, '21
  Elaine

  This would be awesome to allow for KALQ layouts, since it already has the similar spacebar placement.

• 23 Jun, '21
  Janis Berneker Admin

  "free key layouts / editable key layouts" (suggested by Arno on 2021-06-06), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 30 Jun, '21
  Steven Hum Merged

  I realize the layout is somewhat influenced by the QWERTY layout but that may not produce optimal placement of letters based on their frequency of usage. Q and C are obvious swaps if the upper row is considered an easier to touch position -- other placements may also improve thumb travel and general device holding comfort (This obviously is an English language suggestion).

• 30 Jun, '21
  Steven Hum

  This is better than my suggestion just submitted to optimize the layout.

• 01 Aug, '21
  Willie

  I would definitely like to customize the punctuation keys.

• 01 Aug, '21
  Devin Merged

  Let users fully customize the location of every letter key, while also having the ability to add special characters (ex: letters with accents) that aren't normally displayed. Allow users to save these configurations, naming them and auto-adding them to a list of locally stored keyboard layouts. Optional: allow users to upload these to a searchable, online list with the ability to vote on them - the most popular layouts would show at the top. This would prevent the dev team from having to make new layouts and adding them individually.

• 12 Aug, '21
  Willie

  This would seal the deal for me for Pro mode. I hate the default punctuation keys.

• 08 Sep, '21
  Paul Webb

  Even just to be able to customise the punctuation keys would be a good start.

• 13 Sep, '21
  Munib

  If this feature is added it would allow Colemak users such as myself to easily create their own layout. I have seen a hexagonal typewise colemak layout on imgur (it's the third or fourth result when you search "typewise colemak" on Google) and I wish I could somehow get that on my phone. I really hope this suggestion is implemented!

• 14 Sep, '21
  Sebastian

  Im using colemak and would highly support this

• 10 Oct, '21
  Nibi

  Honestly if typewise implements just this one suggestion it will take care of so many others e.g. Numbers Row (479 votes), Delete button/Backspace (195 votes), Customizable special characters (153 votes), Support Dvorak layout (138 votes), Number only layout (153 votes), Keyboard selector button (45 votes), Support Colemak layout (31 votes), additional tiles(buttons) for 2ndary and further functions (29 votes), add cursor up/down (26 votes), Tab key (23 votes), custom buttons (21 votes)...
  
  These are just the ones I saw on the first two pages of suggestions.

• 02 Nov, '21
  Thomas Drillich Merged

  i use neo2 keyboard layout in my other machlnes, ist ist possible to create other layouts?

• 12 Nov, '21
  Glenn B

  I dont remember why I asked for this, but overall I love this app, my keyboard now cant be used by my friends hehe.

• 10 Dec, '21
  Eric

  Great idea! Personally I just hate having letters below the punctuation marks. If I miss slightly and hit a question mark it totally messes up my words. Would love to be able to move all letters to the top or middle and punctuation to the bottom.

• 12 Dec, '21
  Anne Admin

  "Optimize the letter layout" (suggested by Steven Hum on 2021-06-30), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 12 Dec, '21
  Anne Admin

  "Custom key layouts" (suggested by Devin on 2021-08-01), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 31 Dec, '21
  Alan

  I agree with this, having the ability to arrange the letters by a custom user preference would open up a wide range of possible layouts and allows users to also generate custom boards to use

• 29 Jan, '22
  David Naughton

  I like the dvorak layout
  There are many different layouts for people of different professions
  I would definitely use the feature

• 14 Feb, '22
  Anne Admin

  "custom layout" (suggested by Thomas Drillich on 2021-11-02), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 21 Feb, '22
  Qexilber

  I am a big fan of the one line layout that Minuum uses. sadly this keyboard seems to have been discontinued. Providing a whole range of possible layouts would open so many possibilities for Typewise.
  
  Also I personally don't need the space Keys at all. I'm used to using a gesture (swipe right) for spaces

• 24 Feb, '22
  Jefferson Smith

  I used a frequency optimized honeycomb keyboard to write my first novel, way back on the Palm Pilot, and I still miss it. I would love to be able to rearrange the tiles, get rid of the second space, and optimize TW for my single-finger typing needs.
  
  Plus, if you implement this, you could let users submit new layouts for consideration as part of the product or even just share them and create a vibrant user community along the way.

• 05 Mar, '22
  Christoph Merged

  If British English is selected the default symbol would be £ not $, for European languages €.

• 05 Apr, '22
  LR

  Several times i've quit out of frustration for a few missing features. I know it's gonna happen again bc the @ symbol needs to be with everything else it takes to type an email addy. Maybe hold in the letter a, maybe one of the space bar button short hold. And the other needs a microphone. Sometimes its just quicker to do speech to text safer I suppose as well. Long hold numbers same layout as the other keyboards, optional of course. If I end up back in a city with numbers absolute deal breaker, especially with no mic. Gifycat or tenor, insert attach and such. I got more if u wanna hit me u. Otherwise the layout works better for me than any other app.

• 12 Apr, '22
  ErreichbarKite

  What about some more ergonomic layouts like neo2, dvorak etc. Yes its optimised for 10finger typing but one of the basements of
  (For example) neo2 is that frequently used letters are changing between left end right hand. I think that can help to speed up the typing...
  
  Why not the possibility that everybody can design there own layout by swapping the keys? And nice would be a platform to share these.
  
  Maybe some people like to make calculations how to optimise the positions in specific languages. I am sure that a german optimised layout (like neo2) will not that much help a english writing person. Like i remember in english is dvorak more optimised.
  
  Lets create the possibility to change by them self!!!

• 25 May, '22
  Michael Drew Prior

  This would be great! It would help everyone be themselves.

• 17 Jun, '22
  Alien Merged

  Everyone has their own unique typing and punctuation style; I use ' , and " more often than ? ! and : for example.
  
  The concept is simple: add a function where users can re-prioritize or set their gesture preferences for punctuation mark keys to improve personal typing efficiency and accessibility.

• 20 Jun, '22
  Anne Admin

  "Reorder currencies based on language used" (suggested by Christoph on 2022-03-05), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 20 Jun, '22
  Anne Admin

  "Custom Preferences: Punctuation" (suggested by Alien on 2022-06-17), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 27 Aug, '22
  Eskil

  This is really needed. In my language the letters Æ Ø Å are used nearly in every other sentence. Not having them on the main keyboard turned me away from this app. I was really excited about it when I first discovered it, but this limitation makes it very frustrating to use.

• 23 Dec, '22
  Bart

  I'd love to arrange the letters for typing speed over qwerty recognition. Too often i have to type words with one thumb now.
  
  I'd also love to have the ability (pro i suppose) to define a different amount of columns and rows. That way i could add more letters, double letters or punctuation to my liking, or even some empty spaces instead of a big, dense honeycomb.