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I want to love FUTO keyboard but the swiping is SO bad. I gave up on it after a few weeks. Thought my thumb would learn but it was just too much.

Want to give it some time to ripen on the vine and hopefully improve in that area. Sad to hear it hasn't changed since I put it down (probably around last August)

A radically different keyboard is thumb-key, available on F-Droid.

https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.dessalines.thumbkey

I couldn't stick with it long enough to develop the muscle memory but I see how it can be super good if you get quick with it. It's VERY different. Designed specifically for thumb only typing, throws out QWERTY layout entirely, which was designed for two hands with 10 fingers to use effectively and has been ported over to a different device only due to familiarity amongst users, not because QWERTY is actually GOOD for devices that you text with one or two thumbs.

I encourage people to check it out. Privacy focused, designed for a single thumb and doesn't rely on complex evaluation of swipe pattern recognition in order to be efficient. But you have to really force yourself to use it and I just didn't have the discipline to beat the learning curve.