Thumbs-On With The New Minuum Keyboard, The Next Best Thing For Android Typing?

The Minuum Experience

I’m still waiting for the Minuum to remember more of my words, but it doesn’t seem as eager to learn my diction from multiple sources as SwiftKey does. Again, this is beta, that may change. Tapping your thumb on the right end of the keyboard three times should net you ‘lol’, but it brings up every suggestion but, like ‘oil’ and ‘mom, with ‘lol’ not even in the keyboard’s top 10 suggestions. Typing ‘The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog’, the keyboard got hung up on ‘fox’ and other words to a lesser extent. Again, learning curve.

That said, if you’re willing to give it a shot, this seems super cool. It doesn’t have the number of features that SwiftKey does, but it also takes up a fraction of the space on your screen. There’s no Swype-like “Flow” because that would become a shitshow in short order, but c’mon, this is an Indiegogo campaign and these guys have done excellent work so far. This is currently just for backers (very slowly, in batches of 10 at a time as they explain), but will be open to those who apply through their web site in the future.

UPDATE: Okay, it’s time to list off some issues I’m coming to with the system. I’ll add more as I come along them and yes, I realize this is a beta, but bare with me.

• Shift key doesn’t capitalize words after you’ve completed them. It should.
• Word prediction is over-zealous: when hand-pecking a word it doesn’t know, it will change all of your previous characters if you accidentally tap the wrong letters because it’s suggesting something else.
• Punctuation straight up doesn’t work at times. Type a word and try to add a comma or period and it simply won’t deploy.