Punctuation, symbols and accents
Comma and full stop
Comma has its own key left of z, and full stop its own key right of m.
After a word, a full stop, comma, question mark, exclamation mark, colon or semicolon gets its space by itself. If you tap the space bar after it anyway, no second space is added.
Flick a letter down
Every letter has a digit or a mark drawn under it, in the accent colour. Flick the key down to type it.
| Row | Keys | Flick down |
|---|---|---|
| Top | q w e r t y u i o p | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 |
| Middle | a s d f g h j k l | @ # $ _ & - + ( ) |
| Bottom | z x c v b n m | * " ' : / ! ? |
So a question mark is a flick down on m, an exclamation mark on n, and @ on a.
A flick needs only a short move, mostly straight up or down.
Apostrophes
Contractions such as don't, I'm and it's come from autocorrect: type dont and you get don't. For a name like O'Brien, flick c down for the apostrophe.
Hold for accents
Hold a letter key. Its accents open above your finger. Slide to one and lift to type it.
- In English, you get the common accents of that letter, such as é on e and ñ on n.
- In another language, you get that language's own letters: ä ö ü ß in German, ą ć ę ł in Polish, ç ğ ı ş in Turkish.
- In Russian, hold е for ё. In Ukrainian, hold г for ґ.
- In Vietnamese, hold a vowel for all its toned forms.
You don't usually need this, because accents come with the words: type the plain letters and autocorrect puts in the word with its accents. Hold when you want an accent on its own.
A letter with no accents opens nothing when held.
More symbols
Tap ?123 for the number keys. They hold every mark from the table above as a key of its own, and rarer symbols on flicks, such as %, €, £, =, brackets, ¡ and ¿. Numbers