@ryo @PhenomX6 I know, but typing directly in kana would almost halve your key presses in actual typing, and it would go even faster a layout that is actually good and optimized to reduce finger movement.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure I know how people type using touchscreens in Japan, it's a click and drag type of thing, right? I think that may actually be faster than doing it on a keyboard with romaji, though still less comfortable. It's kinda like the way that the DataHand ( https://yewtu.be/watch?v=T7UajuYCIyk ) works, actually, except without switches and without anything, just rubbing fingers on a screen like an idiot monkey.

Oh, and I press enter to confirm after every word I type, because I have complete trust in the input method engine, and by that I mean that I completely trust it to fuck everything up, so I do everything word-by-word. I appreciate all the creative word play that the Japanese writing system allows for, that can't be done in other languages, but holy shit, is it bad for typing. And writing too gets very complicated, though people almost never do it anymore.

WHY?!
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=2icA1VaYg80