RE: Alternative input, like Dasher
20 words? That's actually a pretty acceptable speed I think. I can achieve about 30 words per minute on a regular cell phone, so I can imagine it will be possible to get there with quickscript or similar, through practice. I've been playing a little with an idea I had, so I tried putting something together in javascript and php, to see what it would feel like. I believe an approach like this would result in some nice speeds too, after some practice: http://hwiz.dk/moko/ . -Ulrik Derek Pressnall wrote: Quoting Ulrik Rasmussen: Do you know how many words/characters per minute it is possible to achieve? I ran some tests a while ago, using the Zaurus version of quikscript, here's what I posted to a zaurus forum at the time (based on my personal results): : 1) Handwriting recognition: barely 5 - 7 words a minute, due to recognition inacuracies : 2) On-screen keyboard: about 15 - 20 words a minute : 3) Quickscript: Just achieved 20 words a minute, and still improving : 4) Hardware keyboard: 30 - 35 words a minute : 5) Normal computer keyboard: 85 - 100 words a minute. This was after using quikscript for about a couple weeks or so, and entering some standard typing speed tests (i.e., the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy yellow dog). I would expect quikscript to end up closer to 30 - 40 words a minute with continued practice (however I don't take notes too often on a pda anymore). ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Alternative input, like Dasher
One of my favorite alternative inputs is a system callec QuickWriting (I've also seen it called qwikscript, qwikscroll, etc). The concept is that you have the alphabet aranged in groups along a circle, where the circle is divided into eight sections. Each section contains 5 characters. To select a character, you drag the stylus from the center of the circle into the appropriate section, then either go back to the center, or enter an adjacent section(s) then go back to the center. The section(s) you enter and leave determine the character selected. Once you get used to it (after about a week or so) you start to develope a flow for certain words and you can end up with a fairly quick input speed (faster than on-screen keyboard). One implimentation is called QwikScript for Qtopia, but I haven't seen this done for GTK yet. Check it out on qwikscript.sourceforge.net. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Alternative input, like Dasher
Derek Pressnall wrote: One of my favorite alternative inputs is a system callec QuickWriting (I've also seen it called qwikscript, qwikscroll, etc). The concept is that you have the alphabet aranged in groups along a circle, where the circle is divided into eight sections. Each section contains 5 characters. To select a character, you drag the stylus from the center of the circle into the appropriate section, then either go back to the center, or enter an adjacent section(s) then go back to the center. The section(s) you enter and leave determine the character selected. Once you get used to it (after about a week or so) you start to develope a flow for certain words and you can end up with a fairly quick input speed (faster than on-screen keyboard). One implimentation is called QwikScript for Qtopia, but I haven't seen this done for GTK yet. Check it out on qwikscript.sourceforge.net. I did an implementation of this for the Agenda VR3 some years ago. Is one of the things that I was thinking of pulling in, as it is far preferable (imho) to an on-screen keyboard. It uses some FLTK-based libs, should be a pretty straight recompile with some adjustments for the vastly higher resolution of the device vs. the Agenda. http://agtoys.sourceforge.net/ has the existing project. -P ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
