Tablet square test

Turn the iPad on its side, open one, and write — with your palm resting on the glass as you would on paper. → goes to the next box and then to the next word; ✕ comes back here. A test page, not the site: nothing is saved.

Round 5 · the pick so far

Thumb rail, question over the square round 4's rail (4) with its question over the square (2); the head as on the phone: ↶ · bar · ×

Round 4 · centred 520, the controls for the left thumb

1 · Reading order the question top left, where a page begins; → where the thumb rests, Clear above it along the thumb's reach 2 · Question over the square as in portrait, the eye drops straight into the square; the strip moves to the top left 3 · Question at eye level beside the top of the square, against it — a glance sideways from the pen 4 · Thumb rail a strip along the left edge holds only → and Clear, as drawing apps do; the question beside it 5 · Question top right above where the pen hand can reach; the left side is only for the thumb

Round 3 · one centred square

As portrait question on top, then the strip and Clear, the square, → under it — all centred, as the iPad does today Centred 520, column on the left round 2's pick, to compare against

Round 2 · room for the palm

Centred the square in the middle of the screen, about 6 cm of empty glass to its right A palm's edge about 4 cm of empty glass to its right, the column a little wider

Round 1

Against the edge 520, flush right — your pick of size, no room for the palm Full height the square fills its side, top to bottom