[zsj]

I suggest you looking at Wubi input method[1] which is widely used in China for more than 20 years. My first impression of your method is just the same as Wubi.

The reason why Pinyin input method is more popular, I guess, is that Wubi is too hard to learn which need remember a lot of rules.

But quoted from Wikipedia,

> it is true that Wubi is extremely fast when used by an experienced typist.

So Wubi is still very popular among those who need to type a lot of characters.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wubi_method

[vorg]

I spent a few weeks trying to learn Wubizixing about 10 years ago. I found learning the primary 26 component-to-key mappings very easy via staged practise similar to how I learnt touch typing English, i.e. introducing one new component at a time. (The only minor hiccup was because 木 and 目 both have the same sound and tone in Mandarin, I had to remember that completely visually.)

But when I tried learning the secondary components, I began with the digits 一二三四五六七八九十, I just couldn't remember the keyboard mappings because my mind was already mapping them to the top ten keys in sequence, whereas in Wubizixing they're scattered all over the keyboard based on the first stroke in the character. I gave up on learning Wubizixing after that, and instead looked designing at my own input system.

The most difficult design decision with any such input system is which component-to-key mappings to use. Wuhou uses 92 mappings, Wubizixing uses 26 by overloading many more of the keys. Someone learning such a system must be able to easily learn those mappings.

[huac]

Wait, what's the difference between "wubi" and "wubihua"?

[jjcc]

wubi is based on components of a character, which means typing is super fast at the cost of memorizing all the components. wubihua is based on 4 strokes, first 4 and the last one. It's much simpler to use yet not very fast