I’m starting to design a Kaleidoscope plugin, and I’m concerned about how well it might work for very fast typists (which I am not — I probably manage no more than 40 words per minute). My primary curiosity is about keypress overlap (when one key is pressed before the previous one is released), and …

[image] merlin: Does anyone know where I can find data on this topic? Even better — is anyone here interested in helping to gather that data? (I believe this could be done in a number of ways, but the best might be yet another Kaleidoscope plugin, using the serial interface) Kaleidoscope-KeyL…

[image] algernon: I sometimes have more than three keys active. I experienced the same. That’s why the idea to put modifiers as dual use keys on the home row doesn’t work out. No matter how hard I trained to improve my accuracy, I always ended up with several keys being active at the same tim…

Thanks for splitting. I kinda hijacked merlin’s topic with my question.

[image] algernon: I do not have much data yet, but from what I can see from my own usage, my taps are in the ~50-100ms range, and when typing fast, I sometimes have more than three keys active. That happens rarely though, it is usually just two or so. But again, this is just about an hour worth …

Follow-up question: When you’re typing, and you have multiple keys active at a time, do the key releases reliably occur in the same order as the the key presses? If so, I’m pretty sure I’ve got an algorithm that will work well. If the order of releases isn’t reliable, I’ve got an alternative algor…

[image] merlin: When you’re typing, and you have multiple keys active at a time, do the key releases reliably occur in the same order as the the key presses? From what I see in my logs, yes, releases will occur in the same order as the presses. On the other hand, there may be cases where thi…

Interesting. I am looking forward to seeing your ideas.

I got it working a bit quicker than expected: I’m calling it Kaleidoscope-Qukeys , as an homage to “ qubits ” from quantum computing. The description in the readme was written before the code, so I’m sure it needs updating. Also, it depends on a change not yet incorporated in Kaleidoscope: #255 , and on…

Just read the README. Very interesting approach. What’s your experience? Does it work as expected?

So far, yes. But I’m not a fast typist, and that’s putting it mildly. I have tried most of the test-cases I can think of, and it works like I hoped it would. I don’t think I’ve tried overflowing the queue yet… =)

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