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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At the suggestion of @ploum , I have started to use by @dessalines and I love it. It's a bit of a struggle after having used qwerty and azerty screen keyboards for so long, but I'm already (assets.chaos.social)

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At the suggestion of @ploum , I have started to use @thumbkey by @dessalines and I love it. It's a bit of a struggle after having used qwerty and azerty screen keyboards for so long, but I'm already going quite fast with it, while doing less typos. This is very interesting. I have the french layout but it's also quite easy to use for english text. Here is the toot that inspired me https://mamot.fr/@ploum/113945303642550960

edit: it's on fdroid of course

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

@f4grx @ploum @thumbkey @dessalines I have let that stop me before, usually with gadgets that I spend too much money on to just sit on a shelf (my TapWithUs strap is sitting across my office on the floor right this moment...). But I'm still willing to give it a go

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

@ryokimball @ploum @thumbkey @dessalines it is surprisingly easy to use !