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What's best for 2 finger typing between QWERTY, AZERTY, and QWERTZ? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I know none of these are particularly good for any number of fingers. I normally do use better custom layouts, but my new phone only has QWERTY, AZERTY, and QWERTZ as options. Installing an app for a different keyboard layout is not an option. Do people who use these on their phones have any input as to which, if any, is best?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

I settled on AZERTY. QWERTY on phones always has wasted space to the sides of the middle row, and QWERTZ came with some extra letters i don't need.

[–] idegenszavak 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I was growing up with QWERTZ, so I got used to that. My laptop has a QWERTY keyboard but I switched the ZY keys physically and I learned where the special characters of my language are, e.g. I know I had to push the ; key to type é

It would be annoying if the layout wouldnt be the same on different devices.

I don't know what phone do you have, but cant you just install a different keyboard app? On android I actually never used the default one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

It probably does just come down to what i'm used to, which is none of these. I've used totally custom layouts on my computer and smartphone for years.

I don't mind having different layouts on different devices, mostly because 10-finger typing on a computer keyboard is so different from 2 finger typing on a phone, and what's good for one usually isn't for another.

The phone is a Light Phone II. The OS is based on Android but i don't know how or want to hack it and install other keyboard apps.