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Finding an Optimal Keyboard Layout For Swype

Posted by Soulskill on from the designed-for-2015 dept.

New submitter Analog24 writes: The QWERTY keyboard was not designed with modern touchscreen usage in mind, especially when it comes to swype texting. A recent study attempted to optimize the standard keyboard layout to minimize the number of swype errors. The result was a new layout that reduces the rate of swipe interpretation mistakes by 50.1% compared to the QWERTY keyboard.

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  1. Re:Not surprising by Shakrai · · Score: 5, Informative

    the QWERTY layout was designed to SLOW down typists of the day,

    Just so you know, that's a myth.

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