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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Can I change or add a specific character to the keyboard myself? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I want to add a comma to the letter, but I don't know how I can do it(english layout).

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

No. But you can add a new keyboard layout with the change and submit a PR.

See tickets

604, very similar to your request; and 586, a more general and better solution. Both have been rejected by @dessalines, and the ticket comments contain his thoughts on why not.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

whoopee!!! Another layout with the great difference of one key. When It gets 1 million of layouts, thumb key will get a podium in ginness world record.😆

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I agree, I just don't understand why I can't do it myself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

ehh, thanks for the answer