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by amadeuspzs 2426 days ago
From https://github.com/MadRabbit/keyboard-genetics

"I used a series of articles from various online media. I don't have copyrights to provide them with this project, so you will have to use your own source."

and

"Create the text folder and fill it in with *.txt files which you'd like to use as the test data source. "

It would be interesting to see what a layout full of source code/terminal history would generate - although you'd have to take into consideration all variety of autocomplete functionality (tab key usage) in text editors to get accurate input data, not to mention window switching shortcuts etc.

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Ah good find, thanks!

Yes, would be very keen to see what sort of result you'd get if (say) you captured keystrokes directly from a collection of engineers (or indeed a broad variety of individuals)

Might be trickier though, as I anticipate you'd need to somehow semantically separate the keystrokes into logical units. Maybe just a time-between-strokes threshold would be enough?