Space bar?

[eolsgaard]

Hi all,

One thing I noticed is that a lot of people have talked about accidentally hitting the "b" or "." when attempting to hit the space bar while typing fast. I have done this a number of times myself.

I was messing around, and I noticed that you can hit the bottom row of keys pretty low on the button. Too low, in fact, to be normally comfortable. See, most people gravitate towards the center when typing, so they hit the bottom half of the top letters, and the top half of the bottom letters. Is there any way the effective area of the "space" button can be expanded? Or at least when the predictive text thinks you've finished a word? In other words, at certain times, the space bar can be expanded slightly (invisibly). This could be a toggle, in case people start not being able to hit that bottom row of letters.

Thanks!

[eolsgaard]

Wow, I'm not sure how you did it, but with the latest update I have made almost no mistakes in my typing. This is the greatest app ever...

[cyril]

Actually this is a side effect of the dynamic key resizing feature; I'm happy that you can see the difference

[v941726]

could you do this with the backspace key somehow? constantly hitting the "M" key

[Oveja]

I often hit M when trying to hit backspace as well.

[oduck]

First, thanks for this GREAT keyboard. I tried everyone I could get my hands on and like this one the best by far.

I just bought it a couple of days ago, so I assume I have the update mentioned in this thread. Despite the improvements mentioned in this thread, I find that about 90% of the mistakes I make when typing are hitting the b, or much more rarely n, keys when I mean to hit space. I can type fast and almost flawlessly on this keyboard with the exception of this one thing. In most of my SMS messages there is at least one, and often two, b-instead-of-space errors, and usually no other errors.

I've seen other requests to make the space bar larger, and that'd definitely help. And according to this thread you've made some changes to the general predictive "effective key size" or some such. I wonder if you could add some kind of special case for the b/n instead of space case? You know, just split the text around any b's or n's and see if it yields two dictionary words, if so assume space was meant? I don't know how your code works, whether it is some Markov model thing or something more ad hoc, so I don't know if that would be a completely crazy and difficult thing or not. Another possibility might be to have some user-selectable bias for how likely you are to type b-instead-of-space.

Thanks again for a great app.

[cyril]

There is already some special code to handle the space bar, but I think the ultimate solution is to implement the calibration tool, as everyone doesn't have the same fingers, so it's just impossible to make a generic algorithm which is fine for everyone by default

[onthecouch]

Calibration tool would be an excellent idea. Is this a planned update in the future?

[Oveja]

What exactly is this mentioned calibration tool? And what will it do?

[cyril]

Basically the keyboard asks you to type something, to learn how you press the keys. This is the only way to improve accuracy if you don't type like "most people"