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Show HN: A 2-row, 16-key keyboard designed for smartphones

https://k-keyboard.com/Why-QWERTY-mini
19•QWERTYmini•2h ago
Mobile keyboards today are almost entirely based on the 26-key, 3-row QWERTY layout. Here’s a new 2-row, 16-key alternative designed specifically for smartphones.

Comments

teach•1h ago
You might want to throw a CDN in front of this -- the site is realllllly struggling and seems very complex under the hood.

Cool idea though.

mgr86•1h ago
I threw it at archive.is for them.

https://archive.is/gW1rO

QWERTYmini•1h ago
Thanks for archiving it ^^

really appreciate the help!

QWERTYmini•1h ago
Thanks for letting me know! The website isn’t optimized yet, so it’s running slower than usual. I’ll work on improving it soon. Really appreciate your interest!
MontyCarloHall•1h ago
Smartphone keyboards dynamically adjust the "hitbox" of each key based on what's previously been typed and overall letter frequencies of the language. So when typing "Paris is the capital of Fr..." [*], the A key becomes much easier to hit than its neighbors. Fun fact: back in the day, when this tech was less refined, certain letter contexts made the hitboxes of some keys effectively nonexistent [0].

I wonder if an approach like KKeyboard with larger but statically combined keys leads to faster typing than the current approach with smaller but dynamically "combined" keys.

[*] In reality, the context is modeled using a simple Hidden Markov Model with a much smaller effective context window that could not associate "Paris" and "France." But you get the idea.

[0] https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/impossible-to-type-okee...

quamserena•56m ago
Omg I thought this was just me. How do I turn this off? On iOS, this has been bugging me for a long time.
devmor•15m ago
I would love a way to turn it off as well, this is the source of the majority of my annoying typos.
QWERTYmini•41m ago
Thanks for the thoughtful point! Hitbox behavior is largely constrained by OS -level policies from the manufacturers, so major improvements on that side are difficult for now. At this stage, I'm mainly trying to evaluate the layout and the input method itself - and hopefully, in the future, issues like hitbox tuning can be improved as well.
yjftsjthsd-h•1h ago
I'm not following.

* Does this still expect you to hit every key but some of them need multiple taps?

* Are they doing fancy autocorrect-like magic to decide which letter you meant, and if so why use this instead of taking it one more step and using http://minuum.com/ ?

* Or is it something else?

QWERTYmini•47m ago
Yes, all characters are entered with tap or double-tap, and it also supports simultaneous taps as an advanced option. It’s fully local, with no autocorrect or prediction. Minuum compresses QWERTY into one row, but QWERTY mini keeps the QWERTY structure to preserve the familiar typing experience. Thanks for your interest!
yjftsjthsd-h•35m ago
So like, to type "x" a person would hit the dx key twice?

I guess that's better for precise typing, but for normal prose it's probably faster+easier to just type blindly and let the machine figure out what you mean.

QWERTYmini•24m ago
Both with- and without-autocorrect have their pros and cons. This layout could also work well if predictive features are added later.
highwind•50m ago
I like it but I wish I can change the size of the keyboard. Buttons are too small on my phone.
ugh123•47m ago
Seems like there's 25% wasted space at the bottom for the language globe icon that could be used for something useful
QWERTYmini•33m ago
Good point. I’m not sure why Apple designed it that way either. Anyway, the globe icon area is required by the OS, so its size can’t be reduced. Thanks for the feedback!
2earth•27m ago
Nice idea, I might try it!

I noticed "copyright info goes here (c) 2025" - which you might want to update!

toast0•12m ago
> I noticed "copyright info goes here (c) 2025" - which you might want to update!

It's still 2025, so that's fine :P post-Berne Convention, there are no forms required for copyright protection to vest, merely fixing the work upon a medium is sufficient.

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