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Thumb-Key

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Thumb-Key is a privacy-conscious smart keyboard, made specifically for your thumbs.

It features a 3x3 grid layout, as many older phones had, and uses swipes for the less common letters. Initial testing shows that you can reach ~25 words per minute after a day of use.

Instead of relying on profit-driven, privacy-offending word and sentence prediction for accuracy, as do most popular phone keyboards like Gboard and Swiftkey, Thumb-Key uses large keys with predictable positions, to prevent your eyes from hunting and pecking for letters.

As the key positions get ingrained into your muscle memory, eventually you'll be able to appromixate the fast speeds of touch-typing, your eyes never having to leave the text edit area.

This project is a follow-up to the now unmaintained (and closed-source) MessageEase Keyboard, which is its main inspiration.

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Help with layout design? (kbin.social)
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I am working on my own layout. optimized for using two thumbs to type. I put together a layout that avoids a lot of common bigrams on the same thumb, but I'd love some feedback/critique before submitting it. (this is a mockup in a different app, but its swipe detection sucks and makes testing hard)

Some notes/things that aren't clear in the image:

  • swipe up on o to paste

  • for numbers and special keys (swipe right for next layout. up for settings)

  • swipe up space to capitalize next char, swipe again to caps lock, swipe down to lowercase

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[–] marionberrycore@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

I like it and would love to test it out. My only suggestion is to move the brackets so that none of them require swiping up or down, perhaps use both i and c keys for this?