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Adam13531··on Typing with a Piano [video]
Something I didn't mention in the video is that I had to tweak the positioning of certain letters due to common digrams in English. For example, I originally had "v" as a right-hand thumb key due to its frequency as a standalone letter, but some common English words have the digram "ev" ("ever", "every", "never"), and "e" was also a thumb key, so I remapped the "v" to my pinky to make those words much more smooth.

To do that same process for musicality would be challenging since your average English sentence contains so many different letters. I would probably do something like assign each letter a set of sounds, then pick one of those sounds based on the rest of the sentence.

Adam13531··on Typing with a Piano [video]
What's fun is that it's the only time when typing in all caps actually makes you feel like you're shouting!

But I'm not too sure how useful it is for efficiency even after practicing so much with it; there are a lot of false positives and negatives since keypress velocity doesn't matter for regular typing. With enough data, you could figure out a specific velocity threshold for each key so that you make fewer mistakes, and then maybe it'd be more helpful.

Adam13531··on Typing with a Piano [video]
Hey, I'm the guy who made this! This all started from a random idea I had, but then I was tickled by the thought of becoming faster than the average typist on a piano. It all culminated with a livestream today (https://www.twitch.tv/videos/404585365) where I did typing tests for about 3 hours.

I'll try to address the comments on here, so ask any questions you have!

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