What it works out about you

Insights

Every keyboard measures its users. This one shows you the measurements - explained, with what they were counted over, and with a way in to the numbers behind every chart.

Eight chapter names across the top of the screen

Eight chapters, swiped left to right. Settings, then Dashboard, then Your figures, explained.

Nobody's real data is on this page. These are rendered from the actual screen, driven by an invented person - a maritime job, two years of history, a dictation habit. A page advertising a screen whose whole subject is private data should not be illustrated with anybody's.

How fast do I actually write, and how much of it am I undoing?

At a glance

One figure leads, and everything under it is grouped by what it answers - how fast you write, how much of it is correcting, and what the keyboard did so you did not have to.

  • Words a minute, over the time your fingers were actually moving
  • How much of your typing is undoing typing
  • Corrections you kept, rather than corrections it made
  • What the suggestion bar wrote for you, and the time that came to
The first chapter, with words a minute shown large at the top

Am I getting better, or just busier?

Against yourself

The only comparison this app can honestly make. It holds nobody else's typing, so there is nobody to measure you against except who you were last month.

  • This week against the week before, and this month against last
  • Coloured by whether it is an improvement, not by its sign
  • Only the figures kept day by day appear - the rest say so
A month compared with the month before it, with each change marked

Which words are mine, rather than everybody’s?

Your words

Everything you have written, typed and dictated alike, with the words that are characteristically yours pulled out of the tail.

  • A cloud of every word, largest meaning most often
  • The phrases that are genuinely yours, scored so that "of the" ranks near nothing
  • How you open a message, and how you sign off
  • The word autocorrect fixes for you more than any other
A word cloud, the phrases used most, and how messages are opened

How wide is my vocabulary, really?

Your language

Where your vocabulary sits against 192,000 words of English, and how varied it is - worked out from counts alone, never from the sentences.

  • Every word you write sorted by how common it is in English
  • The words you use far more often than English would predict
  • How few words carry half of everything you write
  • Your own frequency curve, with the line fitted to it
Rarity bands, the words that are distinctively yours, and a frequency curve

What is in here that I have never found?

What you use

Which parts of the keyboard you actually reach for - and, just as plainly, which you never have. Every setting is here too, with the thing it has actually produced beside it.

  • What you reach for, most used first
  • Never used - listed rather than left out, because never having opened something says as much about where it is hidden as about whether you want it
  • Every switch as on or off, with what it produced: autocorrect with the corrections you kept, the suggestion bar with what it wrote for you
  • Nothing switches itself off because you have not used it - this screen reports, it never acts
A list of what the keyboard is used for, and a list of what has never been used

Is talking actually faster than typing, once the wait counts?

Speaking

Dictation is writing, so it counts here too - and it is kept apart as well as together, because the words you only ever say are the interesting half.

  • Which words you only ever speak, and which you only ever type
  • How long you have dictated for, and your longest recording
  • How many times faster than real time the words come back
  • How often it worked, and how often it had to try again
Words only ever spoken beside words only ever typed, and the transcription timings

What does a year of my writing look like?

Your almanac

Kept for as long as you want it, so it reaches back as far as you have been typing. Only the date is ever used - never the time of day.

  • What you wrote on this date a year ago
  • Your longest run of days, and the one you are on now
  • A year of writing as one grid, a week to a column
  • The round numbers you have passed, and when the next is due
On this day, streaks, a week of writing, and a year drawn as a grid

What does it refuse to know about me?

Never collected

Absence is information too, so it gets a chapter rather than a footnote. Every entry is a decision taken in your favour, and every one is invisible unless it is written down.

  • How often you press each letter - it starts to be enough to reconstruct what you wrote
  • What time of day you type - a clock on your typing is a record of when you are awake
  • Which app you were in
  • Where you are
A list of what the app deliberately does not keep, each with a reason

Where it comes from

All of it is worked out on the phone, from what you have typed and said. None of it is uploaded to produce these screens, and the word journal - the one store that holds your actual words - never leaves the device at all. It is listed on Your data with a count and a one-tap clear, like everything else.

Some measures are deliberately impossible. The well-known vocabulary-diversity measures need your words in the order you wrote them, and keeping that order means keeping the text - so they are not here, by choice rather than by oversight.

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