Screwtapello @teh.entar.net Rise to vote, sir Do geese see God? Do nine men Interpret? Nine men, I nod
Like the Leaning Tower of Pisa?
@Kcryptonian I haven't tried to learn the MessageEase layout, so I can't really compare them properly. However, the MessageEase keyboard was designed for use with a single stylus, while the ThumbKey layout was designed for use with two thumbs, so that seems more appropriate for the way I use it.
@nottheengineer The nice thing about ThumbKey is because there's only 16 positions total and 9 important ones, it's pretty easy to just remember where they keys are - you can tell whether you hit the right key by looking at the text you're typing, you don't have to keep looking at the keyboard to see if your thumbs are in the right place.
The English keyboard layout is designed so the vowels are on one side and the most common consonants are on the other, so usually each thumb keeps to its own side. There's some scope for improvement with the English layout (and the devs have expressed interest in a genetic-algorithm-designed layout rather than the straight-forward letter-frequency one it currently uses) but it works well enough for me.
As for typing speed, I just got ~80 WPM on a physical keyboard and ~30 WPM on ThumbKey. In the Lemmy community, I see people talking about speeds up to 50 WPM.
@dannoffs It is, yes!
@dessalines Huzzah! I'm looking forward to the spacebar-slide movement.
@Zenaida_macroura I like to have the numberpad separate so that there are fewer symbols on the main keyboard - that means I don't need to swipe quite as accurately to hit the right symbol.