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Glide typing

You can type a word without lifting your finger. Slide over its letters and lift. Taps, flicks and holds all work as before, so you can mix them freely: tap one word, glide the next.

Glide a word​

  1. Put your finger on the word's first letter.
  2. Slide over its other letters, in order. You don't need to stop on them or hit them exactly.
  3. Lift on the last letter. The word is typed.

A line follows your finger while you slide, and the strip above the keys shows the word Flikzi reads so far.

For a doubled letter, pass over the key once: hello is h, e, l, o.

Spaces come by themselves​

A glided word is typed with no space after it. The space comes with what you type next:

  • Another word, glided or tapped, gets a space before it.
  • A comma, full stop, question mark or exclamation mark goes straight after the word, and gets its own space after it.

So you never tap the space bar between glided words.

When it reads the wrong word​

Some words share a path. Put, pot and pit are one straight line, and so are to and too. Flikzi picks the likeliest for the sentence, and the others are in the strip.

  • Tap another word in the strip to swap it in.
  • Swipe the space bar left to take the whole word away. Swiping right brings it back.

Flikzi learns the words you keep, as it does for tapped words, on your phone only.

Capitals​

The first word of a sentence gets its capital by itself. For any other word, flick the right of the space bar up after gliding it: once for a capital, twice for ALL CAPS. Capitals

Short words​

  • One letter (a, I) is a tap. Tap it after a glided word and it gets its space.
  • Two keys side by side (as, we): slide well into the second key.
  • Two keys two rows apart (in, by, I'm): slide straight from one to the other and lift on it.
  • Two keys in neighbouring rows, one above the other (see, ok) can't be glided. That stroke is a flick: up for a capital, down for a digit or mark. Tap these words.

Flicks still work​

A stroke straight up or down, even a slanted one, is still a flick. A glide begins only when your finger moves sideways into another key. If you flick a long way at a strong slant, more than a key's width to the side, Flikzi takes it for a glide: keep flicks short.

While you tap quickly, a thumb that slips into the next key still types its own letter.

Where it works​

  • Languages: every language typed by its words, on Latin, Russian and Ukrainian keys. Not Chinese, Japanese or Korean, which build their text another way.
  • Several languages at once: with Guess words in on, a glide finds words of your other languages too. Your languages
  • Split keyboard: each half reads glides over its own keys. A word whose letters are on both halves is tapped. Foldables and tablets
  • One-handed mode: as on the full keyboard. One-handed mode
  • Password fields: no gliding. Each key types exactly its letter there.

Turn it off​

Open Flikzi's settings and switch off Glide typing under Typing. A letter slid sideways is then just that letter. Settings