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Prisoner's Keyboard

A prisoner, having secured a pencil and a small scrap of paper, wants to cram in as much text as possible. So he avoids words with ascenders (bdhfjklt) and descenders (jpgpqy). This is the shaky premise of the Prisoner’s Constraint, an Oulipian writing game. Apple just announced it would begin supporting 3rd-party keyboards on iOS. So I thought a good first project would be the Prisoner’s Keyboard. The Prisoner’s Keyboard only permits the space-efficient letters aceimnorsuvwxz.

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