Compare 1996's "FITALY":

"For the FITALY layout, we have obtained an average travel of 1.8, to be compared to an average travel of 3.2 for the QWERTY layout. (For prose, involving few numbers and symbols, the results are even better.)"

https://www.textware.com/fitaly/fitaly.htm

https://the-gadgeteer.com/1998/08/22/fitaly_review/

And closer to OP, "HexInput":

"Please use this idea! If you are a software developer, I urge you to consider adding this functionality to your product. My hope is that ten years from now, we won't have to laboriously tap out messages letter by letter, but instead will be able to zip them out quickly and efficiently with something like HexInput." -Sept2006

https://www.strout.net/info/ideas/hexinput.html

1996, 2006, 2026... Your turn?

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WillAdams 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There were a _lot_ of programs in this space, one of the more interesting was AlphaTap! by Network Improv:

http://networkimprov.net/alphatap/light.html

c.f., the research project:

https://dasher.zone/docs/getting-started/how-to/

For my part, I just write text out using a Wacom stylus on my Note 10+

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Terretta 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

TY for the flashback: I'd learned Dasher! Jesus-phone had washed that away.

I kind of miss my Compaq iPaq, Danger Hiptop, Handspring Visor ... OK, one of those is not like the others, but it was ideal UX for the time.

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andai 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>Type by zooming infinitely into a prediction model

Holy crap that's a trippy GIF

	▲	helloplanets 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		At the very least it captures well how it feels to talk when sufficiently high...

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hypersoar an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

This is what immediately popped into my mind. I remember using this back in the early 2000s.