Skip to main content

Your first five minutes

Flikzi is QWERTY on hexagon keys, so your thumbs already know where the letters are. Two keys are missing on purpose: there is no shift key and no delete key. Learn these five moves in order and you're set. The field at the top of Flikzi's settings is a good place to try them.

       q w e r t y u i o p
 ?123  a s d f g h j k l  ☺
        ,  z x c v b n m  .  ⏎
   [        space bar        ]
  1. Tap the letters, roughly. You don't have to hit each key exactly. Flikzi reads where each tap landed and works out the word. Your letters show in the text as you typed them, and the strip above the keys leads with the word that space will use. Tap h, e, l, l, o, then the space bar.
  2. Flick up for a capital. Put your thumb on a letter and flick it up. You get its capital, anywhere in a word. Sentences start with a capital by themselves.
  3. Flick down for a digit or a mark. Every letter has a digit or a mark drawn under it. Flick the key down to type it: q gives 1, a gives @, m gives a question mark.
  4. Swipe the space bar to delete. Swipe left on the space bar and a letter goes. Swipe right and it comes back. Keep your finger down at the end of the swipe and it keeps going, faster the longer you hold.
  5. Flick the space bar for a word's case. Flick the right half of the space bar up to step a word to Capital, then ALL CAPS. Flick down to step back. Flick up and hold, and ALL CAPS stays on for everything you type.
tip

If Flikzi changes a word you meant, swipe left on the space bar straight after it. Your own letters come back and are not corrected again. Autocorrect and suggestions

The keys that aren't letters​

  • , is the key left of z, and . the key right of m.
  • ?123 is the half key left of a, and opens the number keys. ☺ is the half key right of l, and opens the emoji.
  • Enter is at the end of the bottom row, after the full stop. It reads Done, Send, Go, Search or Next when the app gives it a job.
  • The strip above the keys holds the words. The Flikzi mark at its left end opens the settings, and the mic at its right end starts voice typing, which is part of Flikzi Pro.

More moves​

  • Slide over a word's letters and lift to type the word without tapping. Glide typing
  • Hold a letter, then slide for its accents, such as á or ñ. Punctuation, symbols and accents
  • Hold the space bar until it buzzes, then slide to move the cursor. Moving the cursor
  • Flick the left half of the space bar up for the next of your languages, and down to hide the keyboard. Space bar and Enter flicks
  • Flick Enter down for a new line where Enter would send or search.