The KALQ keyboard (dubbed after the order the keys appear in the keyboard, analogous to

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) is a

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that has been developed by researchers at the Montana Tech,

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and the

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as a split-screen

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for thumb-typing, which is claimed to allow a 34% increase in speed of typing for the people who use

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. KALQ was released as a free app, albeit a beta, for Android-based

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s.KALQ Keyboard (Official) Beta - Link to the official KALQ app on Google Play by the inventors
/ref> 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.

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