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GBoard replacement?
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I've struggled with keyboards. Some to try out are OpenBoard, Heliboard, and Florisboard. All are on F-Droid.
But my favourite so far is FUTO Keyboard. Not without issues but I like it the best. It's not on F-Droid but you can use Obtanium to keep it up to date from the GitHub releases.
If you like weird shit, check out Thumb-key. It's on F-Droid and made by one of the Lemmy developers.
Futo is great, thumb-key is painful
FUTO keyboard managed to be very similar to OpenBoard and Heliboard, while solving some issues I had with those (buggy quirks that may well be hardware or software specific).
I used Thumb-key for a few months, to give it a real go, but I'm not convinced I ever got my speed up. Could do about 25wpm at my peak but I can do another 10wpm on a more normal keyboard (with word suggestions) and I don't think I'm particularly fast. Not sure what's normal for a mobile keyboard.
I have the same experience with Thumb-Key, though I keep thinking maybe I just didn't try long enough...