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Android keyboard Kalq quicker than Qwerty, scientists say

Kalq, a keyboard for Android tablets, positions letters scientifically to have you typing 34 percent faster.

Max Planck Institute for Informatics

It's hard to type fast and not make any spellibg msitakes, but scientists reckon they've solved that with a new keyboard for Android tablets. Kalq is a keyboard calculated to have you typing 34 percent faster.

Developed by keyboard heroes at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, the University of Montana, and the University of St. Andrews, Kalq -- named, like the standard Qwerty keyboard, for one of the rows of letters -- splits the keyboard in two so you can quickly type with your thumbs.

The letters are laid out scientifically to reduce the distance your thumbs have to move to hit the next key. A constant back-and-forth between thumbs means the other thumb should always be heading for the next key even as the typing thumb hits its mark.

Read more of "Android keyboard Kalq quicker than Qwerty, say scientists" at Crave UK.