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Re: 5 Tiles Keyboard

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Absolutly awesome. I tried serveral alternative keyboards since the day i own a smartphone, this is the first one I liked right from the start. Minuum seemed pretty lame, haven't tried it, but I tried Swype, Swiftkey, GKOS, 8Pen, and a morse-key keyboard. The latter was very neat in theory, but the learning curve was just to steep. Now, starting form thre and increasing the number of buttons from two to five and addi…

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Re: 5 Tiles Keyboard

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Fleksy. World record holder for SMS speed. If you haven't tried it, you owe it to yourself. They have a free demo for thirty days too.

Thanks for the suggestion. The stock android keyboard is super terrible so I'd been looking for a better one. This is by far the best I've found. Most require a large learning curving. This one feels like the iOS one but it's a bit smoother. Nice find!

Yes, I have just moved from iOS to Android in the last few weeks, and I was thinking about giving up and moving back until I found this keyboard. I'm glad it was helpful! Best two dollars I've spent recently.

Re: 5 Tiles Keyboard

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post #38

Absolutly awesome. I tried serveral alternative keyboards since the day i own a smartphone, this is the first one I liked right from the start. Minuum seemed pretty lame, haven't tried it, but I tried Swype, Swiftkey, GKOS, 8Pen, and a morse-key keyboard. The latter was very neat in theory, but the learning curve was just to steep. Now, starting form thre and increasing the number of buttons from two to five and addi…

I did the exact same thing, I had no idea there even was a "go" button, thanks for sharing this.

Re: 5 Tiles Keyboard

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If the people doing this are listening: I don't think the business model is ok. If this keyboard is to get some traction, it will require us users to use it for real before paying. You can't have a keyboard lite, it's a vital utility, not a game. If I type a url or a password and discover that a character is only on premium, I'll switch back to my usual keyboard and not look back. Another remark: typing number is ver…

We're listening, and really appreciate all of the great feedback here - we're taking it all on board. Good point about a number mode - at the moment, the best way to see the Number gestures is in the Cheat Sheet: http://fivetiles.com/use-cheatsheets/

Re: 5 Tiles Keyboard

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They do have a video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUjBdMz1q8I

That video is just auto-complete after the first letter...

Yes, it's a practice application with pangrams, with the auto-complete turned on. Here's a video of a speed test with everything turned off: http://youtu.be/xigziUyUcrM (good point to get this more visible on the website)

Re: 5 Tiles Keyboard

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Yea, actually I believe this is not true at all. I learned in an intro to cognitive psychology class that it seems that our brain is wired to recognize sets of 1, 2, and 3 things directly, but that after that we construct the numbers. For instance when we see 5 things it is actually 3+2 that we see. The experiment was based on response time + accurateness when showing people sets of geometrical shapes for very short…

There really is a lack of actual usage-videos which is kind of off putting. The posted "trailer" video didn't make me want to use it either, although this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOPalCIbGA8 made me a little bit more curious. And regarding the 3+2 thing that seems true, I always count to 5 in couples of 3s and 2s.

thank you to everyone with feedback on the videos - we clearly can put more useful ones together for you.... on the case!

Re: 5 Tiles Keyboard

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There really is a lack of actual usage-videos which is kind of off putting. The posted "trailer" video didn't make me want to use it either, although this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOPalCIbGA8 made me a little bit more curious. And regarding the 3+2 thing that seems true, I always count to 5 in couples of 3s and 2s.

I'm sorry I may be stupid but I still don't understand how the keyboard works after having seen that second video. Seriously they should make a video where we can see what happens on the keyboard and on the screen at the same time. Why every time the finger starts to slides the only letters left on the keyboard are "EABCD"? How do I type an 'n' for instance? I see that they do a round-trip to enter numbers, but how a…

we didn't make it clear enough in that video that it's of the keyboard in "Learning Mode", which shows you which letters you can swipe to when you've got your finger on one of the keys. We'll make a new with the Learning Mode turned off....
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