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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Why are the empty directions not filled with numbers/symbols etc? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Azzu@lemm.ee to c/thumbkey@lemmy.ml

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Yeah, of course not all symbols will fit, but wouldn't it be better to minimize the context switching? Numbers for example are used very often, I really don't see why I have to go to a different page to be able to type them.

Corollary, is it possible to easily create a custom layout for personal use? Or do you have to check out the code and build yourself etc?

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[–] Claidheamh@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

Both great ideas. Especially for punctuation. I've lost count of the times I've had to press spacebar upwards of 10 times trying to place a question mark quickly but missing by one.