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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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supposedly the programmer layouts have ctrl and alt like old messagease had but i can't find them? all i can find is dessalines saying it should be in the thumbkey developer layouts in here: https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key/issues/656

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[–] juche_fan@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

now if there's a way to get ctrl+alt on the messagease layouts would be a followup question, i don't want to learn a new button layout if i can avoid it, been using messagease since first term obama lol