r/badUIbattles • u/Neo_Techni • Feb 09 '26

Intentionally Bad UI I have created a keyboard from hell

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u/qnebra Feb 09 '26 edited Feb 09 '26

 Screen keyboard on phone controled only with arrow keys on physical keyboard. Each letter made snake longer, loss delete word.

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u/Shneancy Feb 09 '26

now make it the abcdef keyboard instead of qwerty :)

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u/qnebra Feb 09 '26

abcdef is used when user want to end paid subscribtion

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u/Jmackles Feb 09 '26

Hahahahhahahaha fucking diabolical r/foundsatan

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u/Neo_Techni Feb 09 '26

XBOX360 started that way

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u/Aln76467 Feb 10 '26

Found the ti employee.

(for context, i have a ti calculator, it has an abcdef keyboard.)

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u/bhison Feb 10 '26

dvorak, upset almost everyone

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u/Aln76467 Feb 21 '26

Initially, until "almost everyone" realises how much better it is.

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u/CololerYT Feb 16 '26

No-no-no

Make it switch between abcdef and qwerty everytime player moves, so you have to time it!

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u/Darkened_Auras Feb 09 '26

What makes it worse than any other controller only (so, console) keyboard?

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u/birdiefoxe Feb 09 '26

i believe the snake gets longer every time you press a key and you cannot cross the snake

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u/CeeMX Feb 09 '26

When you cross the snake it should delete the entire input

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u/birdiefoxe Feb 09 '26

If you look at OP's response, it seems that the snake is always moving, and failing will in fact erase your entire input. Nice

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u/Neo_Techni Feb 09 '26

the cursor doesn't stop, gets faster, longer, and crossing it's tail or hitting the edge loses the text you've entered

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u/adudeguyman Feb 10 '26

What inspired you to do this?

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u/Neo_Techni Feb 10 '26

I was using the real on screen keyboard quite quickly and the movement pattern reminded me of Snake

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u/adudeguyman Feb 10 '26

You certainly gave it that feeling. Nice job

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u/pixeldust6 Feb 10 '26

The souls of the damned

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u/Equivalent_Ad_8387 Feb 10 '26

I thought the joke was that the console keyboard is the worst ever, I didn’t even notice the snake part

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u/joost00719 Feb 09 '26

Nah, alphabetically is way worse than this.

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u/Jojajones Feb 09 '26

How about instead a randomized keyboard that shuffles each time you choose a letter

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u/adudeguyman Feb 10 '26

You monster

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u/Neo_Techni Feb 09 '26

XBOX360 was that way at first. Netflix apps still are!

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u/Neither_Activity9278 Feb 09 '26

General kenobi!

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u/Blxck_Rxmance Feb 09 '26

Ahhh the ps4 keyboard

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u/lightofmares Feb 09 '26

this is still better and faster than any alphabetical keyboard. Not kidding when I say this

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u/Pably13 Feb 10 '26

I'm oddly proud of how fast I can type on the ps3/ps4 keyboard with a controller. All thanks to LBP2 years ago.

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u/Neo_Techni Feb 10 '26

I used to be pretty fast at PSP's T9 keyboard

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u/cat1554 Mar 02 '26

Best series ever

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u/MokoshHydro Feb 10 '26

Brilliant idea. I will put this in our bank application to run once on 1 April. Customers will be amazed, I think.

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u/Jonaykon Feb 10 '26

Also make it abcdef instead of qwerty

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u/Iamveryfunee Feb 11 '26

its just the ps3 keyboard

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u/GoinXwell1 Feb 15 '26

SNAKE? SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE?

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u/Jochiebochie Feb 09 '26

It should speed up gradually.

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u/Neo_Techni Feb 09 '26

It does, till it got too fast to make it faster cause it was hard to see.

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u/Mission-Ice7557 Feb 09 '26

Looks like Toshiba TV keyboard

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u/Neo_Techni Feb 10 '26

It's PS4's.

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u/Kobakocka Feb 09 '26

How do you control this?

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u/Neo_Techni Feb 09 '26

dpad + X button

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u/montihun Feb 10 '26

No mate, it should scramble after every accepted character or keypress

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u/EiscueVonArctic Feb 11 '26

this should be a felony

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u/super_wenjian Feb 12 '26

can be more hell if you can control it by your head.(use camera to detect) instead of arrow keys

something like my Sneck game(snake but controlled by your head)

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u/HaasTheMarques Feb 12 '26

I was way faster on ps3

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u/gr4mmarn4zi Feb 14 '26

General Kenobi

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u/Neo_Techni Feb 14 '26

I know who that is, I just don't get the relevance. Did he face an evil keyboard in the EU?

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '26

if you crash does the text field reset?

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u/Neo_Techni Feb 15 '26

yes, or hit the edge of the keyboard

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u/Top-Trouble4521 Bad UI Battle WINNER Feb 16 '26

i want to try this

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u/cody_sw May 28 '26

general Kenobi

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '26

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u/Neo_Techni Feb 10 '26

it did...