{"id":6519,"date":"2011-05-25T17:20:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T22:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=6519"},"modified":"2011-05-25T17:21:01","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T22:21:01","slug":"fast-thumb-typing-for-one-or-two-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=6519","title":{"rendered":"Fast thumb-typing for one or two hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several people commented that it would be good to have a fast thumb-typing for SmartPhones that can work with a single hand, in case you don&#8217;t have two hands free.<\/p>\n<p>The following variant seems to do the trick:  The 14 fast characters are the same, but the other characters are &#8220;typed&#8221; not by chording, but rather by sliding off the original virtual key in one of the principal four directions.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the image below to link to a java applet that shows the idea:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/mrl.nyu.edu\/~perlin\/thumbtyping target=1><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/thumbtyping.jpg\" width=450><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Using this approach, you can pick up a lot of extra speed by using both thumbs, but everything still works (albeit more slowly) with a single thumb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several people commented that it would be good to have a fast thumb-typing for SmartPhones that can work with a single hand, in case you don&#8217;t have two hands free. The following variant seems to do the trick: The 14 fast characters are the same, but the other characters are &#8220;typed&#8221; not by chording, but &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=6519\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fast thumb-typing for one or two hands&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6519"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6519"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6522,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6519\/revisions\/6522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}