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Every day, I enter information using a Kinesis keyboard using Dvorak (at my desk), at a MacBook Pro's keyboard (taking notes at meetings), and using an Android on-screen keyboard.

I guess that this service would only allow me to log in using one of those three keyboards, because the typing would look extremely different between them.

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I'm in much the same boat: Planck with the Workman layout (laptop and desktop), laptop keyboard with both Workman (touch typing) and qwerty (very much not touch typing), and on-screen on my phone.

Even just swapping between the staggered and grid layouts, both Workman, changes how I type in a way that I'm reasonably confident would affect the accuracy of this service.

That's an interesting use case, you should try it out with the Dvorak keyboard...

In case this wasn't clear: they're not saying you won't generate a model from their Dvorak typing, but rather that the model you generate is likely to depend on the keyboard layout, and so will break if they try to log in from a different keyboard.

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