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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I installed the Thumb-Key keyboard, I like it and I might use it as main keyboard. It doesn't have a Bulgarian keyboard layout, so I forked it on github and will try to make a [#phonetic](https://calc (calckey.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I installed the Thumb-Key keyboard, I like it and I might use it as main keyboard. It doesn't have a Bulgarian keyboard layout, so I forked it on github and will try to make a #phonetic #bulgarian one.

#thumbkey #keyboard #bulgarian @[email protected]

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[–] CluckN 2 points 1 year ago

I give it a thumbs-up!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh God I just tried to get the screencap to function thinking it was noscript fucking it up until I noticed the URL.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Somehow I accidentally made a post on https://lemmy.ml/c/thumbkey, I still don't understand how this works. I just wanted to make a post on my firefish profile.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I made the Bulgarian layout, I made a pull request, it looks like this:

|-----|-----|-----|
| | | |*|*|*| | | |
| |с|щ|*|р|*|*|о| |
|*|ѝ|ш|*|г|*|у|*|*|
|-----|-----|-----|
|*|“|*|ж|ч|б|*|*|*|
|*|н|м|к|х|п|л|а|*|
|*|„|*|в|ъ|й|*|*|*|
|-----|-----|-----|
|*| |ц|*|ф|*|д|*|*|
| |т|ь|*|и|з|*|е|я|
|*| |*|*|*|*|*|ю|*|
|-----|-----|-----|