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Ok so this looks kind of interesting.

I wanna try it out and see if I can get used to it.

How long did it take for you people to get up to proper writing speed? I need to use the hungarian (magyar) layout so that’s quite a few more keys to remember.

(yes I did write this just to practice a little)

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I learned by only doing crosswords (in MessagEase). I couldn’t bear slowing down writing. Since crosswords feel more like letter-by-letter word-building instead of word-by-word sentence-building, it made progress less frustrating. Now, I use MessagEase nearly 100%, but I’m switching to thumbkey today.

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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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