KALQ keyboard

The KALQ keyboard (dubbed after the order the keys appear in the keyboard, analogous to QWERTY) is a keyboard layout that has been developed by researchers at the Montana Tech, University of St Andrews and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics as a split-screen keyboard for thumb-typing, which is claimed to allow a 34% increase in speed of typing for the people who use touchscreen. KALQ was released as a free app, albeit a beta, for Android-based smartphones.{{cite web

|url= http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/archive/2013/title,217680,en.php

|title= Thumbs up for faster texting

|accessdate= 18 May 2013

|author= Dr Per Ola Kristensson

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|author2= Fiona MacLeod

|date= 24 April 2013

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|work= News issued by the Press Office

|publisher= University of St Andrews

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|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20170422193622/https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/archive/2013/title,217680,en.php/

|archivedate= 22 April 2017

|quote= To create KALQ, the team used computational optimisation techniques, in conjunction with a model of thumb movement, to search among millions of potential layouts before identifying one that yields superior performance.

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}}[http://www.phonearena.com/news/Researchers-create-innovative-KALQ-keyboard-for-faster-thumb-typing-Android-app-coming-in-May_id42301 Researchers create innovative KALQ keyboard for faster thumb-typing, Android app coming in May][https://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2013/apr/25/kalk-keyboard-end-qwerty-touchscreen Will the Kalq keyboard finally spell the end for qwerty?][https://techcrunch.com/2013/04/24/kalq/ KALQ Is A New Split-Screen Keyboard Layout Designed To Speed Up Thumb Typing On Tablets & Big Phones][https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mpi.hci.kalq KALQ Keyboard (Official) Beta - Link to the official KALQ app on Google Play by the inventors] Although the KALQ project received some buzz in tech media, as of early 2017, the latest public version is dated October 2013, and still labelled a beta.